Caring colleagues took to the skies to help raise funds for a much-loved SK workmate who suffered life changing brain injuries. Craig Fielden, 52, a longstanding employee at our distribution warehouse in Wynyard, spent four months in a coma and a year in hospital after the brain haemorrhage and several subsequent seizures. Now recuperating back […]

Though home may be 2000 miles away, a group of Ukrainian refugees were still able to celebrate their national day – with a little help from SK Foods. The party was organised by British-Ukrainian Jurijs Harchenko and attended by over 20 refugees who are currently being hosted by families in the Middlesbrough area. Jurijs himself […]

Three people working for SK Chilled Foods are celebrating 75 years of service between them. Karen Downing, Billa Singh and Martyn Grant all joined the company in 1997. The trio were each presented with a bouquet of flowers and £500 worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers to recognise their long service to the company. Karen […]

When the price of cooking oil rises as it is now, the ripples are felt across the globe – commercially and domestically. From a consumers point of view, cooking oil is bought on a regular basis by 75% of supermarket customers for home cooking. It’s also a vital ingredient for most restaurants and takeaways with […]

Alan Thorpe has joined SK Chilled Foods as its new Managing Director. The 52-year-old joined SK on 7th March from Marmum Dairy in the United Arab Emirates where he spent the last two and a half years working as Sales Director. Reporting to Group Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Faulkner, Alan has overall responsibility for the […]

When it comes to supporting campaigns, Full English breakfast day has our undivided attention. Thankfully, there’s no filling of forms, making donations, running half marathons dressed as a pantomime horse or any of those other demands made by other campaigns . Full English Breakfast Day, which took place yesterday (2nd), requires only that you tuck […]

We all like to get value for money and that certainly applies to food . So making the most out of the weekly shop – rather than throwing some of it away – makes perfect sense. After all, who doesn’t want to save money and reduce food waste? One of the aims of The United […]

Last week, we were talking tea, and now we’re approaching UK Coffee Week (29th April to 5th May). Where do you stand on the tea vs coffee debate? Personally, I am coffee all the way during the day, but partial to a cup of tea of an evening. I am certainly not alone in this […]

We’re big fans of different new year celebrations here in the SK kitchen, so Happy Baisakhi everybody! After all, why should 1st January be the only time we have a party and eat great food? The Chinese New Year is a great example. This happened in February and as Chinese food is one of our […]