As excitement builds alongside England’s progress in the World Cup the nation is grappling with important questions, such is it coming home? Will the bare-chested Senegalese fans who have danced non-stop for the entire tournament be invited onto Strictly? Do impartiality rules mean that TV companies must employ at least one completely bald person on […]

For some the sound of the festive season is the tinkle of sleigh bells, for others a choir of schoolchildren…but for many it remains Noddy Holder’s ear-splitting shriek of “It’s Christmas”. Traditionally December 1 marks the day that supermarkets switch their sound system to festive. We get to enjoy Mariah Carey as we seek out […]

The World Cup kicks off on Sunday with the glamorous first game of Qatar vs Ecuador. Let’s face it, it’s hard to get excited about an event which we are all used to watching in June, so at least the organisers could have picked a better match to try to get us in the mood […]

A group of children were given food for thought after a visit from SK Foods. As part of their Geography lessons, Year 5 and 6 pupils at Howletch Lane Primary School in Peterlee listened to a presentation given by two members of our New Product Development (NPD) team. Technologists Rebecca Storey and Kate Chapman spoke […]

Now Halloween and Bonfire Night are out the way attention can turn to the greatest celebration of all – Christmas. In modern day Britain the festive season now no longer begins with the switching on of the Christmas lights or opening of the first window of the Advent calendar. And whilst the first sound of […]

You will all have heard of the saying food fit for a king. Well, one hundred years ago this month a discovery was made that attracted the fascination of the world and continues to do so today. For even a century on, we continue to learn new things about the history of mankind thanks to […]

Everyone loves food – after all we couldn’t live without it. But some foods have had such an impact on people or places they’ve been given the ultimate accolade – a museum all about them. So, whilst the British Museum in London takes you on a journey through the history of mankind and the Louvre […]

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 […]

Since appearing in Dr No 60 years ago, the world’s most famous spy James Bond has travelled to most corners of the globe in his quest to rid the world of baddies. Whilst there’s no doubt the ingenious gadgets supplied by Q come in handy, as does a bombproof Aston Martin, the fact remains you […]