Food & Drink

Family-owned independent maltsters, Simpsons Malt specialises in brewing, distilling, food processing and agriculture throughout the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, USA, Canada and Africa.
Celebrating 150 years in 2012, and managed by the 5th generation of the Simpsons family, the company remains focused on its core malting business, investing in excess of £80m over the last 25 years.
After moving from Alnwick in the 1960s, the company is now headquartered in the historic town of Berwick-upon-Tweed –an area famous for its barley. Simpsons Malt produces in excess of 280,000 tonnes of malt each year therefore, the quality and security of supply is paramount. Northumberland provides the perfect place for the procurement and wellbeing of the Simpsons’ precious harvest.

Silvery Tweed Cereals produces refined cereals for food production, including a large range of flakes, cut grains and specialty flours which customers then use in many applications– such as soups, sauces, breakfast cereals and breads. The company also produces a wide range of sweet and savoury coatings for oats, barley wheat and puffed cereals, while its seed plant is dedicated to the cleaning and blending of seeds to a world-class standard and uses the latest metal detection and in-line magnet technology to ensure product quality and integrity.

As the leading UK wholesale supplier and manufacturer of cake decorating and sugarcraft products to trade customers, Culpitt manufactures cake boards, cake cards, sugar fondant sheets for photocake, printed edible cake decorations and moulded sugar cake decorations.The company exports products to many European countries, the USA and Australia and was awarded the ‘Queens Award for Enterprise’ in 2012.Culpitt also uses a worldwide network of specialist suppliers to develop exclusive tools, decorations and edible products for its own range.

Residing in Morpeth since 2008, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) have quickly established themselves as a key part of the local community, producing 3.2 million cases of drinks every year.
Morpeth is the only CCE water site in Great Britain, and Northumberland as a whole has helped the company to grow from strength to strength, both in regards to business development and in their fundamentalaim to achieve the highest standards of sustainability in the manufacturing and distribution of products.CCE has been hugely impressed by the calibre of people and the varying skills they have been able to draw upon from across the region for their workforce.