"From the Estate to the Plate"

   Founded in 1988 on the Craufurdland Castle Estate, Kilmarnock, Braehead Foods has become synonymous with fine food and game. Managing Director Craig Stevenson purchased the company in 1999 with the aim of making high quality foods more readily available to chefs. To this end, the Real Cheese Company was bought in 2000, thus adding quality cheeses to the product range.

    With this expansion of products it was felt that further technical knowledge would be required, and in 2001 a Technical Manager (Alistair McLean) was appointed. 

    In 2002 the firm moved to a modern 10,000 sq.ft, E.U standard game processing facility, and in that same year the company expertise was further enhanced by the appointement of Wilson Smith as Operations Director.

    As the customer base increased in size and diversity, the commercial side of the management team was strengthed by the appointment of a Customer Services Manager (Linda Queen) in 2003.

    In April 2008, Braehead moved into their new purpose-built factory at Moorfield Park Industrial Estate, Kilmarnock. At 30,000 square feet it is more than 6 time larger than the previous factory and allows them to meet demand for more quality game and fine food distribution and processing. The new building is open plan, set over two floors and houses a state-of-the art processing area, cold storage and dispatch docks.

    The new development and production kitchen is designed with today's busy chefs in mind; the experienced chefs at Braehead are constantly planning and designing new and exciting ranges of quality, cost-effective products, such as terrines, stocks and stuffed poultry.

    As well as increasing the range and capacity of products available, the new building will also house a demonstration kitchen, a cook school, restaurant, take-away and shop thus promoting the Braehead brand to more people through the introduction of direct sales to the public.

    The team now comprises fully qualified and experienced specialist staff who are subject to a continuous training programme to ensure that they are conversant with the latest techniques and practices.

    

   Several prestige awards have been earned:

    Craig Stevenson:

      Craig Stevenson was awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award in 2001.

      Business Insider's Rising Star in 2005.

    Braehead Foods:

      Braehead Foods is a Federation of Chefs, Scotland sponsor.

      We have been used by Scottish Food and Drink as a case study as a Best Practice Supplier

    Braehead Foods also won the Scottish Chef's Supplier of the Year award in 2003.

   

    The company holds a European Hygiene Licence(Number 1738) and now exports to Belgium, France and Italy.

    Braehead Foods quality game products are now augmented by a wide selection of cheeses sourced throughout Europe, dry goods, Belgain chocolate and other specialist food products from some of the world's leading manufacturers.

   Braehead Foods is the sole distributor in Scotland of Gressingham Duck, the classic bird of choice for leading chefs.

 

The entire staff of Braehead Foods continually strive to attain the company goal:

"The catering industry's one-stop shop."