Our business is processing, sourcing and sales of prawns and other speciality seafoods; fresh cook, chilled, and frozen to retail, foodservice and manufacturers in UK and Europe.
Our philosophy is to provide our customers with the highest quality seafoods,
from controlled ecologically sound and sustainable sources - manufactured to
the most stringent standards always closely matching our customers aspirations
of quality, choice, flexibility and convenience at affordable prices.
It's all we do,
It's our passion,
It's what we have been good at for almost five decades
Long term, exclusive partnerships with many of our sources provide us with
the best quality and consistency of raw material, along with the confidence
of reliability and product continuity, which we like to share with you. We
continue to break new ground in overseas sourcing. We were the first UK company
to introduce Tiger Prawns and the first in Europe to launch Organic Prawns
in 2001. Today we are the largest processor of organic prawns in the
world! Furthermore, 60% of our raw material is from sustainable sources
and this is continually growing.
Our UK and overseas technical staff undertake regular aquaculture audits of
farms and supplier factory facilities to ensure only sources and suppliers
that can assure absolute standards of quality and consistency are used.
We were the first seafood company in Europe to require all our major suppliers of farmed shrimp to be “Best Aquaculture Practices” (BAP’s) certified in 2006. As a result, 60% of our raw material is now from sustainable sources and this continues to grow. The BAP’s are laid down by the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and are independently audited by the Aquaculture Certification Council (ACC), and cover key issues such as food safety, traceability & the impact of aquaculture on the environment and communities.
With a processing capacity in excess of 22,000 tonnes per year, frozen prawns
from our coldstore are daily freshly cooked or converted into an IQF (Individually
Quick Frozen) format using liquid nitrogen to ensure maximum retention of flavour
and texture.
We operate 7 days a week supplying a variety of added value, high quality
products including freshly cooked with the capacity to offer high volume
promotions.
We are Organic and EFSIS accredited, with in-house accredited microbiological
laboratory. All products are tested for heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics,
genetically modified feedstuffs, irradiation and other banned substances. Lyons
Seafoods is the first and only processor with in-house ability to check for
Chloramphenicol/Nitrofurans.
This ensures that our consumers are not exposed to any products with traces of
veterinary medicines or other environmental substances.
A consistent, exciting product range with the guarantee of quality and safety,
which delivers increased sales through high level of consumer awareness,
recognition and purchase preference.
With the capability to develop and produce bespoke products.
During the last 5 years we have invested over £11m in automation and capacity expansion. The £5m “Under One Roof” factory development was completed in 2006. As a result, Lyons now have state-of-the-art facilities for manufacturing, a large chilled coldstore and modern office facilities.
Their best endorsement is winning five Seafood Prix d'Elite Awards during the last 4 years at the annual European Seafood Exposition. Our most recent success in April 2007 was winning the award for “Best Retail Packaging” for our new Lyons Seafoods “To Go” convenience range.
With more than 300 employees, we help you to succeed! Providing professional sales, marketing and product innovation support enabling us to tailor our business proposition to you as our customer to drive for sales and profit growth.
The Alfesca Group is a leading European producer of value-added premium festive and convenience food in its selected product categories. The Group's products are sold under its own brand names, including Labeyrie, Blini, Delpierre, Skandia, Farne and Lyons Seafoods, but the company also has a substantial presence in private labels in some of its markets. Alfesca has 3,400 employees in five countries and operates 12 production sites in France, Spain and the UK.