Latest News At Morton Group
BRC: Grade A Achieved Against The Global Food Standard September 2009
We are proud to state that for the second year in succesion our Contract Packing and warehousing operation in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, has achieved a Grade A against the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. Our Brighouse factory provides an extensive contract packing facility for open foods, packaged foods and food gifts. Our site is also bonded for the packing of alcohol products and has seperate areas for the contract packing of pharmaceuticals and non-foods. The achievement of Grade A status shows our continued commitment to our clients in ensuring Morton's produce safe, legal and quality products. Our site is also recognised and accredited as a contract packing facility by a number of major retailers for the packing of own label products including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer and BHS. We continue to develop our operating processes and procedures in line with the latest industry quality and safety standards.
Additional Automatic Shrink Sleeve Line Installed March 2009
Morton Group has made additional capital investment in its contract packing facility at Brighouse. The Brighouse site has recently installed an additional fully automatic shrink sleeve line. This is in response to the increased demand and volume of product being packed in the Brighouse factory in the format of retail shelf ready trays. Any potential new client who is interested in making use of this additional capability and has contract packing requirements is invited to contact Mike Taylor, Business Development Manager, at Mortons on telephone number 01484 404880.
Bonded Warehousing Facility at Morton Brighouse September 2008
Morton Meadow Logistics Ltd based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire has been given full approval as a Customs and Excise bonded warehouse facility for the handling and contract packing of beers, wines and spirits. Any potential clients who may require the contract packing of beers gift packs, spirit miniature gift packs or any onging standard reworking and contract packing of beer and spirits products are invited to contact Mike Taylor, Business Development Manager, at Mortons on telephone number 01484 404880.
BRC Grade A Status at Morton Brighouse August 2008
Following our annual audit against the BRC Food Standard we were delighted to achieve a Grade A status at Morton's contract packing, warehousing and distribution facility in Brighouse, West yorkshire. This excellent result demonstrates our commitment to delivering first class Quality standards within our business.
Environmental Initiative at Morton Group June 2008
Across all sites Morton's have committed as part of the group Corporate Social Responsibility Policy to reduce land fill waste and promote recycling. The company has introduced a "green initiative" which has proved very succesful in reducing waste sent to landfill. The "green initiative" has been introduced in the contract packing factories at Brighouse, Barnsley and Elland where waste materials are now seperated into polythene, hard plastics, cardboard, paper, wood and metal. Duncan Scott, Factory Operations Manager, stated that "everyone has to do their bit in relation to our environment. We are really committed to playing our part and working to achieve the business objectives to reduce landfill and recycle our factory waste. The initiatives already introduced have meant we have made a great start and reduced waste in April&May 2008 by over 60% against last year and we'll continue to look for ways to build on this".
New Business Development Manager Appointment at Morton Group May 2008
We are delighted to announce that Mike Taylor has joined Morton Group in a Business Development role. Mike joins us in addition to our current Sales and Business Ddevelopmenmt team. Mike has specifically been appointed to delvelop our contract packing business and he joins us with a wealth of knowledge within the Contract Packing Industry. Mike Taylor is therefore actively seeking new contracts and invites any business with a requirment for co packing or packaging advice to contact him on mike.taylor@cjmorton.com or to call Morton Group on 01484 404880.
Full Basic Food Hygiene Training at Morton Meadow Logistics Brighouse April 2008
During April 2008 our commitment to quality and people delvelopment within our Brighouse contract packing site has meant a business commitment to ensure every factory operative has now completed a qualification in Basic Food Hygiene. The Brighouse site holds BRC Food accreditation with the main factory area manufacturing and packing various packaged food items and also has a controlled open food handling packing area. Vicky Cunningham , Group HR Director, stated that "we are pleased that our staff have participated and all qualified in their Basic Food Hygiene Training as this key area is obviously vital to ensuring we deliver the best quality standards possible. If we train our staff to increase understanding and the reasoning behind why we have to follow our cleaning, hygiene and other food handling procedures then we know we will maintain the highest standards."
New Shrink Wrapping Capability January 2008
An additional fully automatic shrink wrapping line has been installed at our Brighouse site's contract packing facility. This new machinery complements our current equipment and means we can offer greater capacity for fully automatic shrink wrapping at Brighouse. The machines typically are employed in wrapping confectionary items, food gift packs, presentation retail packs and stationery products. Given this increased capacity Morton Meadow Logistics, based in Brighouse, is actively seeking new contracts and invite any businesses with product shrink wrapping requirements to contact 01484 404880.
NVQ Success November 2007
We are delighted that 11 members of our team including warehouse operatives and team leaders at our Brighouse and Barnsley sites have successfully completed their NVQ level 2 qualifications. As a business we are committed to staff development and this is an excellent achievement and a credit to our employees who have successfully qualified in Warehousing, Supervisor and Administration NVQs.
