Tangerine Confectionery is delighted to be awarded with the first FDQ Gold Employer Loyalty Award in recognition of its commitment to training. In partnership with Back-up Training, Tangerine has now successfully trained over 75% of its 1300 strong workforce to NVQ Level 2 standard across their seven manufacturing sites. Awarding Body FDQ introduced the Employer Loyalty Scheme to recognise employer commitment and investment in training. They offer three loyalty levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Pete Sanders (right), Technical Director for Tangerine who received the trophy on behalf of the company said ‘We are delighted to receive this Gold Award, particularly as we are the first Company to achieve this with FDQ. We are seeing the benefits of investing in training as not only can it improve efficiency and staff morale, it can give organisations an edge in having to meet ever tighter audit regulations and customer requirements’. Tangerine Confectionery is the UK’s largest, independent manufacturer of high quality sugar confectionery and popcorn. It includes iconic brands such as Barratt Sherbet fountain, Princess marshmallows, MOJO, Taverners and Butterkist Popcorn. The Company also produces an extensive range of gums, jellies, liquorice and boiled sweets.
The business is a home-grown success story, having more than trebled its turnover in the last five years. The reasons behind this success include a commitment to excellence, innovation, product quality and training as well as a dedication to the customer and a determination to protect and promote traditional skills in UK manufacturing. In combination with increasing manufacturing capabilities and the broad product range, Tangerine is now a business of significance and scale with ambitious growth plans for the years ahead. Through capitalising on market trends and being at the forefront of innovation in confectionery and popcorn, the company is set to consolidate its position as a leading light in sugar confectionery and popcorn, through making the best sweets and popcorn in the country.
The confectionery business requires people with creative flair and a taste for what will succeed. Tangerine Confectionery is acutely aware that its people play a critical role in the creation of sweets and popcorn products that the nation adores. It takes pride in its role as employer to over 1300 people and invests to ensure they are trained to the highest standard. Back-up Training continues to work with Tangerine on their Employee Development Strategy, providing bespoke training materials for the delivery of high quality programmes across the Group.
Back-up Training and Recruitment is sad to learn that Carol Fletcher, with whom they worked for many years at Aunt Bessie’s, has died. Carol was Back-up's main contact at Aunt Bessie’s throughout the partnership. She worked hard to support the programmes we delivered over the years to our many learners at the company. Carol was professional and fun to work with and will be sadly missed. Our condolences go out to Carol's family and colleagues. Heidi Greaves and Jill Moore, Back-up Training and Recruitment
Tangerine's Vicarage Lane staff - click for more photos
CONSCIENTIOUS staff at Tangerine Confectionery have been sharpening their skills with the help of Back-up Training, specialists in the delivery of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) to the food manufacturing sector. The training allows staff to gain new qualifications, designed to help them in their roles across the business. Click here to see a selection of staff presentation photographs. The NVQ programmes were completed at Vicarage Lane and Clifton Road in Blackpool and are now in progress at Poole, Liverpool, Pontefract, Cleckheaton and York, making sure food safety remains an integral part of the culture at Tangerine, whilst also helping the company to drive its commitment to developing its people. Pete Sanders, operations director, said, "We're delighted that so many employees have achieved, or are currently working on, their NVQ Level 2 in Food Manufacture. For those about to embark on the award, we wish them well and look forward to their commitment to the programme." Tangerine is committed to developing and training staff, so it is delighted to have received the Employer Loyalty Gold Award in March 2010, recognising that more than 75 per cent of employees have achieved an NVQ Level 2 in Food Manufacture with the awarding body, FDQ. Tangerine is the first company to receive this prestigious award.
This report has been adapted from an article in Zest, the Tangerine staff newspaper.
BACK-UP Training and Recruitment has been awarded the prestigious NVQ Centre of the Year Award by The Worshipful Company of Butchers and the Meat Training Council.
The award was presented by Jeffrey Davies, F Inst M, Master of The Worshipful Company of Butchers, (above) at the Annual Prizegiving Reception and Luncheon on Tuesday February 23, 2010 at Butcher’s Hall, London.
The event was also attended by the president of the Meat Training Council, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, who is better known to the public as The Black Farmer (right).
Heidi Greaves, managing director of Back-up Training pictured above receiving the award, said, "This is a very proud moment for Back-up. We work hard to help others achieve more and get recognition, and our clients thank us for that. Now we have this recognition from a very prestigious organisation. We're absolutely delighted."
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Lead assessor Graham Starks is presented with a certificate marking Back-up's entry to the General Food and Drink Network of the National Skills Academy
Jayne was presented with the Outstanding Personal Achievement award by Ray Ellis, acting principal, at a glittering gala evening ceremony.
Cathy Hough (right), director of work based learning and workforce development at the Grimsby Institute, said, “These awards are a reflection of the support of our fantastic employers and collaborative partners and the outstanding effort and enthusiasm of our learners.”
Heidi Greaves, managing director of Back-up Training and Recruitment, said, “We are delighted for Jayne. She can be very proud of her award. Back-up is very pleased to sponsor the award, which represents wide recognition of the hard work and dedication that Jayne has put in.”
Back-up’s name in (London) lights Training and assessment help to create 'eco-ethical model factory'
BACK-UP Training’s contribution to a major M&S initiative was recognised at a high profile conference in London on January 28.
Back-up is providing training and assessment services for 2 Sisters Food Group, a supplier to M&S. Ranjit Singh, 2 Sisters chief executive, presented his factory’s achievements to the M&S Ethical Trade Conference at Kensington Town Hall.
Jill Moore, co-director of Back-up Training, said, “We were really pleased that the training and assessment Back-up is doing at Flixton site got a mention. Flixton is working with M&S to create an 'eco-ethical model factory'. Looking after their people and equipping them with relevant skills is all part of this and links into the learning centre we helped to create with the Meat Training Council. To have our contribution recognised at such a high-profile event is something to be really proud of.”
The M&S Ethical Trade Conference was opened by M&S executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose (above right) and delegates heard key note presentations from influential speakers, including Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK (go on, click it, see what you get).
BACK-UP Training was pleased to play its part in the opening of a new learning centre at the 2Sisters Flixton facility in October by Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer.
The Suffolk centre is a key component in 2Sisters’ commitment to learning and people development and a contribution from the Meat Training Council helped to fund equipment at the centre, following a proposal from Back-up Training and Recruitment.
The event was also a memorable occasion for five proud food process operators. Following the centre's opening ceremony, Branislav Fabini, Dijana Liepinaite, Edgaras Liepinaitis, Edweena Grimes and Rodney Rayner were presented with their NVQ level two food manufacture certificates at the 2Sisters centre by Sir Stuart.
The certificates were awarded by Food and Drink Qualifications and delivered by Grimbsy Institute.
Photo caption, left to right: Barry Greaves, Back-Up Training; Branislav Fabini; Dijana Liepinaite; Edgaras Liepinaitis; Edweena Grimes; Rodney Rayner; Angela Long, awarding body director; Mandy Stutter, NVQ assessor for Grimsby Institute; Bill Jermey, chaiman of Meat Training Council; Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman, Marks and Spencer.
INTERNATIONAL event rider Harriet Morris-Baumber (left) is counting down the days to the biggest equestrian event of her career, and food industry training specialist Back-Up Training and Recruitment has helped her to get there.
If everything goes according to plan, 20 year-old Harriet will be one of eight riders heading to Hungary next month to take part in the European CIC** Eventing Championship. This is the first time she has been selected to represent Great Britain at the championships, which take place at Nagykanizsa from July 1 to July 5.
Harriet and her horse Shannon Dales Skatman, also known as Snowy, are sponsored by Beverley-based Back-Up. Managing director Heidi Geaves said, “We are very proud and very excited that Harriet has been picked for the Team GBR squad. I've always believed businesses should support the efforts of their local sports men and women and we are delighted to have been able to play a small part in Harriet's success so far.”
Harriet, who is based at Everingham near York, has been training hard with Team GBR since she was shortlisted for the squad late last year. She and Snowy, have been making a five-and-a-half hour journey from Yorkshire to Berkshire twice a month.
“It's a long trip down to Hungerford to train with the rest of the team but it's been great,” said Harriet. “We also went down to the Royal Windsor Horse show to perform demonstration rides and get used to the crowds.”
Hopefully, Harriet's next trip will be even longer. With her place in the team confirmed by the Team GBR selection committee in May, it's now all about final preparations.
Harriet has been riding since she was nine years old and has competed since she was 11. She rode for Great Britain in Ireland in 2005 and in Switzerland in 2006, having been shortlisted for the Junior and Young Rider teams.
The European CIC** Eventing Championship is unique. In addition to the normal dressage, show jumping and cross-country events, riders in Hungary will take part in a team dressage test where the whole team ride the test together under the command of the Chef d’Equipe.
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