Food manufacturing specialists Wright Food Group is launching its latest Wrights branded vegan savoury pastry range and a new line of core ready meals into foodservice.

The vegan range includes a Vegan Peppered Steak Slice, a Vegan Steak Pie, Vegan Chicken and Mushroom Pie, a Vegan Pasty and a Vegan 6 inch Sausage Roll, complementing the brand's existing vegan offering and wider savoury range. 

Wrights' new line of ready meals include a Meatball Marinara, Mac and Cheese, a Chicken Jalfrezi and a Mediterranean Vegetable Lasagne, adding to the current range of Wrights ready meals.

Commercial director Helen Bowyer said: “As one of the UK's leading specialist food manufacturers, we supply a wide range of savoury pastries and ready meals to many of the UK's foodservice distributors, top restaurant brands and independent bakers. For 96 years we have offered consistently high quality foods to consumers alongside that all-important convenience and choice for caterers.

“We are constantly evolving all of our ranges and for 2022 have prioritised the development and launch of an extended vegan offering for consumers looking for more plant-based out-of-home choices. We've developed vegan alternatives to our most popular fillings which are encased within our signature golden pastry and make a perfect complement to our meat-based savoury lines.”

The Wrights Food Group's £30million manufacturing facility in Crewe produces more than three million savoury products per week including gastro pub pies and ready meals for the hospitality and retail sectors. The Group operates with a team of 600 across two sites in Crewe and includes 15 North West high street stores. 

Helen added: “Our focus in recent months has been on perfecting plant-based products and increasing our ready meal range. With the Wrights heritage founded on pastry-based foods and providing quality, hearty meals for hospitality, we're confident our existing loyal and new foodservice customers will welcome the addition of choice and quality in the convenience and the plant-based arenas.”

For more information on the new Wrights vegan savoury pastry range and core ready meal range, contact sales@wrightsfg.com.

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Notes to editors: Formed in 2021, The Compleat Food Group (TCFG) has an annual turnover of £590m and employs more than 3,500 people across 12 sites. It produces own-label products and leading brands including Pork Farms, Wall's Pastry, Squeaky Bean, unearthed® and Vadasz. Created from the merger of Addo Food Group, Winterbotham Darby and the Wrights Food Group, it supplies products to most of the UK's largest food retailers and a comprehensive portfolio of foodservice companies. TCFG is owned by European private equity firm PAI Partners and has the ambition to become the UK's leading chilled food organisation.

Wrights Food Group was established in 1926 by Jack and Lizzie Wright who sold pies to neighbours from their Stoke-on-Trent doorstep. Today the company's 600 strong workforce manufactures and distributes savoury pastries, sweet bakery and ready meals into retail and foodservice sectors and manages 15 Wrights branded bakery stores across the North West. Wrights' innovation has been a cornerstone of the business throughout almost a century of food production, and today the business supplies savoury, sweet, frozen and bakery products to some of the UK's leading hospitality and retail brands.

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