National Trust seeks processors who want a finger in a family pie
The National Trust is looking for a savoury food manufacturer to process a range of pies and tarts that have been developed under its brand.
By around September 2010, The National Trust is aiming to launch two family share pies and a range of savoury tarts and quiches. The development of the branding and packaging of the savoury pie and tarts range has been carried out by Rivermill a food licensing and sales agency specialist. Md Andrew Chesters said that he is keen to hear from food manufacturers that are interested in producing products in the range.
The National Trust hopes that its future processing partner will be "inspired by the Trust's own produce and from traditional recipes held in its archive", it said.
The range will include a steak and ale family pie, chicken and thyme individual pie, a mushroom and goats cheese quiche and Stilton and pear quiche.
The savoury pie and tart range will sit alongside a wider range of branded food and drink lines in Rivermill's portfolio.
Other products produced under The National Trust's brand will include a bread range, including a stoneground wholemeal loaf, milk loaf and barm bread. It will also produce a range of biscuits. Flavours will include stem ginger and orange marmalade biscuits, clotted cream rounds, Lancashire lemon curds, golden honey oaties and oat crumbles.
