Piglet’s Pantry: A journey to BRCGS START

We talk to Rhiannon Harries, Technical & Quality Control Lead at Piglet’s Pantry to find out how the business has benefited from BRCGS START Certification with Intertek SAI Global.

Piglet’s Pantry is a family-run Sussex food producer which began as a small seaside bakery with a mission to create amazing pies, using the best quality British, sustainable ingredients. Fast forward 12 years, three buildings and 32 British Pie Awards later, they are supplying 50,000 pie, pastry and patisserie goods per week to sports stadiums, entertainment venues and leading luxury brands, as well as selling to customers online.

Starting with a range of just 4 pies, the company now offer over 300 different products, all made to the same high standards as when they first began.

“Achieving BRCGS START meant we could transition to a globally recognised standard. We aim to work towards full BRCGS Food Safety certification, but we understand that getting there is going to be a multistage process and we love that we can take incremental steps.”

Benefits of BRCGS START

1. We can demonstrate our food is safely and hygienically produced which drives customer confidence and trust.

2. We like our suppliers to have it, because it gives us reliable ingredient traceability and we can trust the ingredients we use are all produced with the same high standards of food safety and hygiene that we ourselves adhere to, without having to audit each supplier ourselves.

3. Helps to support food safety culture in production. Everyone understands that we have to work to a global standard, not just one person’s ideas, and this makes the concept of food safety accessible to all staff.

4. As a growing business, BRCGS START was a fantastic way to transition from our previous certification to a globally recognised standard.