Around Noon, NI and UK based food-to-go manufacturer, is set to open a new factory at Slough Trading Estate near London and will create up to 200 new jobs as part of an investment plan.

The company, which acquired the North London-based Soho Sandwich Company, has recently secured a series of contracts in the travel, foodservice and coffee sectors.

To facilitate future expansion, the company has acquired a new circa 30,000 sq ft factory at Slough Trading Estate, which will become the group’s sixth manufacturing facility.

Around Noon manufactures items such as sandwiches, salads, wraps and fruit pots for airlines, coffee chains and caterers. The company said that this new factory will allow the company to increase its manufacturing capacity in Slough by circa £50 million.

Alongside the increase in factory capacity, the company will also bring its total headcount across the group to more than 1,000 with the 200 new jobs being created. A total of 300 of the 1,000 people will be based in Slough.

Slough Trading Estate

Gareth Chambers, CEO of Around Noon, said: “We have grown our run rate at Around Noon in Slough from £4 million per annum in 2018 to around £30 million per annum today. We now manufacture over 400,000 products per week at the existing Slough factory and we are really pleased to have secured additional premises at Slough Trading Estate to support our ongoing growth.”