Central Foods secures highest BRC level once again

Frozen food distributor Central Foods has been awarded the BRC Agents and Brokers certificate for the third year.

And once again, the company has achieved Double AA accreditation - a classification level introduced last year, which is the highest level attainable.

Central Foods managing director, Gordon Lauder, said: “We are super proud to have been awarded the BRC Agents and Brokers certificate once again at the highest level. BRC is an industry-leading QA body and we are delighted that Central Foods has achieved the highest level of technical and operational recognition. It provides additional reassurance to our customers.”

BRC Global Standards is a leading safety and quality certification programme, used by 25,000 certificated suppliers in more than 130 countries. The Standard for Agents and Brokers gives essential certification for companies that provide purchase, importation or product distribution services in the food and packaging supply chain.

Central Foods, which is based at Collingtree near Northampton, is one of the UK’s leading frozen food distributors, having been founded in 1996. It supplies more than 220 independent wholesalers, as well as larger national and regional wholesalers, along with foodservice caterers across the entire foodservice industry, including pubs, hotels, restaurants, staff canteens, schools, hospitals, coffee shops, football grounds, garden centres and universities.