Overview
Raynor's is a 100% employee-owned enterprise which was established as a family firm in Chelmsford, Essex in 1988.
We have grown from a small local operator into a £30m+ turnover national supplier, with a 40-van fleet and over 300 employees. We make over 20 million high-quality sandwiches, wraps, rolls and salads a year.
We have received multiple awards from food industry, technology and business judging panels. Having been named British Sandwich Association’s Manufacturer if the Year twice in the last four years, we were last year awarded The British Sandwich Association’s 2024 Industry Award, an honour normally bestowed on individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the industry and which had not been awarded to a company since 2012.
Our BRCGS AA-standard manufacturing facility has a completely nut- and sesame-free operation and supply chain and has an outstanding record in food safety, product quality and service reliability.
Our manufacturing and hygiene expertise is regularly employed in a consultancy role by both regulatory and commercial interests and we continue to set new benchmarks in manufacturing excellence.
We are widely recognised as an industry-leading innovator and standards-setter, particularly in sustainability. Here are a few highlights from our track record:
- 2009: Raynor's pioneered the carbon footprinting of sandwich products.
- 2014: We started zero-to-landfill reprocessing of organic waste.
- 2020: We began on-site hydroponic farming of cress.
- 2024: We completed our move to 100% renewable electricity
Most importantly, we remain committed to constant improvement - we have been ISO14001 certified since 2013, which means we are independently evaluated every year to ensure our continuing commitment to sustainability at all levels in our organisation.
And we’re already doing new groundbreaking work on protecting the future of our planet.
We are leading the S3 (Smart People • Smart Process • Smart Factory) project alongside consortium partners the University of Cambridge, University of Lincoln and Software Imaging. The project has attracted £2.5m of UKRI funding to build a manufacturing optimisation system which both measures and regulates energy usage and reduces waste.
AI-enhanced monitoring and data visualisation is being deployed through a ‘gamified’ interface that records and rewards energy savings. This means that every colleague in our workforce can both contribute to and benefit from our efforts to cut carbon emissions to the absolute minimum.
