Read about Fullwell Mills’ history and achievements since 1990
1990
Fullwell Mill started as a bakery making speciality breads such as organic, rye and sourdough.
1992
The company has its roots in focusing on niche customer requests and started producing speciality flapjacks and muesli bars.
1993
We developed the first ever UK energy bar.
1995
We started making flapjacks with fairly traded (before the Fairtrade standard existed) dried fruits and nuts for the, then London based, Tropical Wholefoods brand.
2001
Fullwell Mill and Tropical Wholefoods merged and became the leading independent manufacturer of Fairtrade snacks in the UK.
2002
The company was certified organic.
2003
We achieved BRC accreditation.
2004
Fullwell Mill won the Inner City 100 index prize for the North East, and added 450m2 to our factory.
2005
We developed the first functional snack bar for the Food Doctor, which was sold to Tesco.
2006
Organic dried mango from our partner organization in Burkina Faso were certified Fairtrade.
2007
Almonds from our partner organization in Pakistan were certified Fairtrade. They went on to be an inclusion within the Ben & Jerrys ice cream range.
2008
The company started packing organic dried mango, pineapple and banana for Tesco. We were awarded the blue (highest) rating for Tesco own label production.
2009
We developed a range of Fairtrade fruit bars for Sainsbury’s in conjunction with Comic Relief.
2010
Fullwell Mill won Sainsbury’s own brand supplier award for corporate social responsibility and added another 500m2 to our factory and warehousing units.
2011
Dried pineapple and banana from our partner organization in Uganda was certified Fairtrade, following on from their organic certification in 2008.
2012
Raisins and almonds from our partner organization in Afghanistan were certified Fairtrade after 5 years of effort.
2013
The company developed a range of flavoured Fairtrade raisins for Sainsbury’s.
2014
We sold £1M of organic products in a year for the first time and developed the UK’s first mainstream paleo bar range.
2015
A new high speed X-ray machine was installed, every bar is now x-rayed in line before packing.
2016
A new sheeting line was installed bringing our production capacity in line with the requirements of larger clients.
2017
Our expanding new product development team helped our clients to launch over 100 new products into markets across the world.
2018
We plan to double our current factory and warehouse size and invest further in new packaging equipment.
