Chaucer acts quickly to expand into new offices

Chaucer Foods has become the latest arrival at Melton Park Office Village.

A GLOBAL producer of specialist food ingredients and products has become the latest arrival at Melton Park Office Village after outgrowing its premises at Brighton Street Industrial Estate in Hull.

Chaucer Foods Ltd has relocated its group head office and other administration functions into the last remaining office unit at Melton. The move creates more space for the company’s bread division, Chaucer UK Ltd, which remains at Brighton Street Industrial Estate in Freightliner Road in Hull.

Gary Rutter, Operations Director of the UK division, said two new jobs have been created at Melton, which now houses the group head office, the finance department and the sales and administration team for the freeze-dried fruit division.

He said: “The business as a whole has grown to $140 million turnover. We needed to put in new infrastructure to support the expansion and there was no room for it at Freightliner Road.”

The company’s team of around 110 at Freightliner Road is part of a global total of more than 500 working at sites in the United States, China and France.

Paul White, Agency Director at Garness Jones, said: “Chaucer Foods is a great success story and they acted quickly in identifying Melton when the time came to move some of their team. It’s very convenient for them because the new office and their main production facility are both right next to the A63.

“The new office gives them more than 4,300 square feet of open plan space. It was the last available unit at Melton and other businesses were interested because there is a shortage of qood quality office space of between 3,000 and 5,000 square feet.”