About English Provender

At English Provender Company we're ideas people and innovators, chefs and creators, and designers and deliverers.

Our highly-skilled teams produce award-winning dressings, condiments and marinades for many of the UK’s leading food manufacturers and retailers. It’s our passion for good food, fine ingredients and technical excellence that sets us apart. 

It’s our mission to create fine food for all to enjoy!

• Over 700 ambient and chilled products from mayonnaise and marinades, condiments and cooking aids
• We are a key supplier to food manufacturing, foodservice and retail sectors

At English Provender Company we’ve nurtured a can-do culture that’s always inclusive and encourages our people to listen, understand and engage with each other.

We’re a spirited, adventurous and resourceful team, and we think these qualities make for something pretty unique and coveted these days.

From the mayonnaise and chutneys we create to the management styles and choices we make, everything is guided by our core company values: Creativity, Agility, Respect and Excellence. It's these values that make us look forward to coming to work everyday and make EPC a great place to work:

• A place where our individual and collective hard work and results are recognised
• A place where we treat each other with respect
• A place where our suggestions are encouraged and welcomed
• A place that gives us the resources and responsibility to do our jobs well
• A place that gives us the training and development we need to improve

Working at English Provender

We’re an innovative organisation that thrives because of the outstanding, highly motivated individuals in our dynamic growing teams. Everything we do is driven by our constant desire to remain the best. That means you’ll work with some of the best people in the industry, to be inspired and motivated.

What you get here is high levels of responsibility, a variety of possibilities and the opportunity to improve things along the way.

We think you’ll find the work challenging and interesting utilising the tools you need to do a great job with the best people on your side to help you do it. You can look forward to ongoing opportunities for learning and development.

Our company values are part of every day at English Provender and are driven from the top:

• Creativity – we invent new solutions
• Agility – we respond with speed
• Respect – we value people
• Excellence – we give our best
   

If you feel you have what it takes to be part of a great team then we would love to hear from you.

We have varied opportunities across 12 different departments at our Newbury and Newport sites including:

 

• Warehousing
• Health, Safety & Environment
• People Team
• Finance
• Engineering
• Customer Service
• Technical & Quality
• Innovation/New Product Development
• Commercial
• Purchasing
• Prep and Cook
• Packing
• Retail

About the Group

HERITAGE

Billington Begins

Edward Billington’s journey began in 1858 when he turned his hand to importing tea, coffee and sugar into the UK. From that small business venture, grew a legitimate trading company, which enabled Billington to take permanent headquarters in the famous Cunard Building. After this step was taken the company firm, finally became “Edward Billington and Son Limited” in 1898.

Billington The Growing Up

In the early 1900’s, following the success of the herbal trade, Billington delved into the manufacturing of cattle food and Criddle was born and is still growing strong in the agriculture market to this day. The Billingtons’ continued to grow the business and became renowned in the overseas trade business. This led to them taking over the old central tin packing factory in Liverpool and transforming it in to a manufacturer of animal feed, as well as branching in to the meat and travel markets and the manufacturing and distribution of sweets, savouries and sauces. The business was evolving in to the Billington business we know and love today.

1977, saw the first import of Mauritian unrefined brown sugar named Billington’s Sugar which is still on our supermarket shelves today. Acquisitions and investment in to other like-minded businesses followed, growing the Billington food and agriculture portfolio. The group grew to include: English Provender, Classic Couverture Chocolate, Wholesome Sweeteners, Suffolk Foods, Alembic Products Limited and TSC Foods.

Billington Today

The Billington Group has continued to expand through the years. In 2013 Billington Food Ingredients was established to source and supply frozen, chilled and organic fruits and vegetables for the food service and B2B market. Billingtons ambitious acquisitions have most recently included Bar Foods who joined the group 2012 with their delicious sauces, soups, dressings and recipe dishes, and most recently Dunkleys came in to the family fold with their handmade pies, puddings and desserts. Each of the businesses has their own unique style and way of working, but are united by the Billington family ethos and their passionate approach to the food and agriculture industries.