KEY FACTS

Status:   Limited Company, privately owned by the Foulger family

History:   Established as Banham Poultry Ltd in 1972, although the family business dates back to the early 1900s

Head Office Location:   Station Road, Attleborough, Norfolk

Market share: 3% of UK fresh chicken market

Products: Chilled fresh whole chicken & chicken portions

Employees: 750

Customers: Supermarket and wholesale caterers

CORE ACTIVITIES

Breeding:   6 breeding sites supply Fakenham hatchery (560,000 chicks/week).

Rearing:   20 broiler farms operated by Banham

Processing:   At present 600,000 chickens/week processed at Station Road site

Distribution:   Banham runs its own 30 lorry fleet

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Hygiene:   Banham Poultry scored the highest hygiene rating of all UK poultry processors in the Meat Hygiene
Service’s annual assessments for 2003

Environment:   Banham Poultry is one of the first UK poultry processors to seek independent accreditation for its standards
of environmental management under ISO 14001

Energy efficiency:   Banham Poultry enjoys a Climate Change Levy rebate because the efficiency of its 2.4 megawatt
Combined Heat and Power plant at the Attleborough site allows hot water to be recycled for refrigeration and exports
electricity to the National Grid

Renewables:  The company was one of the first in the poultry industry to trial the use of biodiesel as a transport fuel

Process innovation:  Banham Poultry was among the first UK companies to adopt leakproof packaging for retail meat and
fully automated evisceration in its processing operation.