About Patchwork
Patchwork was established in 1982 by Margaret Carter, a talented,
although untrained, home cook, who found herself divorced with three
children to look after.
With a start up cost of just Ł9.00, saved from
the housekeeping, she began selling her home made pâtés to pubs in nearby
Llangollen.
As Margaret attracted more
and more customers and the business successfully started to expand she
moved the business from her house in 1987 to a purpose-equipped factory
in the heart of Ruthin.
Despite the
commercial scale today, everything is still hand-made in small batches,
without artificial colouring, additives or preservatives, to Margaret’s
original recipes.
A self-directed team
The Patchwork Traditional Food Company now has a strong work force
of 30 employees who once worked as a self directed team. However, when we introduced the
British Retail Consortium quality systems to achieve our grade A we had to introduce a more structured supervisory process.
We have maintained as much as we can of our original management systems and we still maintain a factory with limited titles where everyone is able to have their say and openly voice their opinion.
The team decides its own production schedules and work patterns, is able to
recruit collectively and is involved in everything from the design of
new packaging to product development.
A successful and growing company
The Patchwork Traditional Food Company is a successful and growing
company, producing its fine foods still using locally produced
ingredients wherever possible.
Each product is skilfully
cooked with an eye for perfection to create that traditional taste for
Patchwork's growing number of discerning customers.
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