Fuelling growth

From the 2019 Annual Report

Over the past three years Jordans Dorset Ryvita has made major improvements to its supply chain in the UK to improve efficiency and facilitate further international growth.

The programme has included the consolidation of the businesses’ production footprint, together with investment in new state-of-the-art equipment for cereal bars, muesli and crispbread. The focus has been on building core manufacturing capability in the principal production sites in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire and Dorset.

• In 2018, we moved muesli manufacturing operations into a purpose-built facility in Poole, Dorset. This new facility allowed for increased production volume while being closer to port facilities to simplify export sales.
  
  
• At the same time the business has opened a new production facility in Bardney, Lincolnshire to produce Ryvita crispbread. The new factory, built on a former British Sugar site, is using the latest machinery to produce Ryvita products using less energy and generating less waste.
  
  
• Finally, in 2019 we announced our investment in a new cereal bar production facility in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Jordans was the first company to launch a cereal bar in the UK in 1981 and this new production line will improve efficiency and enable innovative new product recipes.

This investment comes on the back of significant international sales growth for the business, which requires a more flexible supply chain capable of making different products for multiple markets. International sales now account for approximately half of our overall output, with key countries including France, Canada and Australia and recent entry into Brazil and Germany.