Silver Spring, Ian Rose
Silver Spring Soft Drinks has a 30,000m2 facility in Kent that employs 150 staff and produces 350 SKUs of still, carbonated and pasteurised soft drinks, with 60% of the business private label. The business also co-packs products for the likes of Britvic and Coca-Cola. Factory manager Ian Rose (38) has been at the firm for 18 years and worked his way up from the factory floor, and is responsible for a site that turns out 180m bottles a year, although the firm plans to increase this to 350m by 2013.