Raw prepared products (meat and vegetarian)
Cooked meat/fish products
Ready meals and sandwiches, ready-to-eat desserts
Cross Hands Food Park
Carmarthenshire
SA14 6SX.
Company Biography / Bywgraffiad Cwmni
Castell Howell Foods are one of the largest independent food wholesalers to the foodservice sector in the UK. From the company inception in 1988, the business has grown to employ in excess of 750 colleagues, listing a range of 14,000 products and delivering approx. 1000 pallets daily on 160 vehicles.
We are proud of our Welsh agricultural roots, and promote local and regional foods when available and commercially viable. The range of Welsh dairy products, meats, dry and frozen food is unparalleled and the company is proud to act as an intermediary for many indigenous businesses.
The core customer markets are food led pubs, restaurants, hotels, hospitality groups, public sector caterers, workplace caterers and coffee shops. In challenging times, Castell Howell aim to constantly evolve and aim to work with the supply chain to list a growing range of sustainable products.
Crustaceans for example prawns, crabs, lobster, crayfish
Eggs
Fish
Peanuts
Soybeans
Milk
Celery (including celeriac)
Mustard
Sesame
Sulphur dioxide/sulphites, where added and at a level above 10mg/kg in the finished product. This can be used as a preservative in dried fruit
Lupin which includes lupin seeds and flour and can be found in types of bread, pastries and pasta
Molluscs like clams, mussels, whelks, oysters, snails and squid
Pescatarian
Vegetarian
Vegan
Ambient (room temperature)
Chilled
Ambient (room temperature)
Chilled
Frozen (operations below zero degrees)
Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA)
British Retail Consortium Global Standards (BRCGS)
Soil Association
Protected Geographical Identification (PGI)
Red Tractor
Food service major
Food service other (independent caterers)
Public sector (schools/hospitals)
CEO Cluster
Yes
No
Yes
Waste produced fit for human consumption includes:
General food waste, CAT 3 for further valorisation
Yes
Waste produced fit for animal consumption includes:
CAT 1 waste