Our Facilities
Since 1954, Place UK has grown from a family fruit farm in the heart of Norfolk, into a trusted partner for retailers and food manufacturers across the UK. Everything still happens in one place: our Tunstead site, where we take quality ingredients from fresh to frozen.
That matters more than it might sound. Because we control the ingredients ambient to cooked, frozen and packaged on one site, meaning your product isn’t passed between separate suppliers and handed back at the end. We can see it through, adapt it as we go, and stand behind the result.
Our Three Factories
Freezer Factory
In this factory the ingredients are soaked, blanched, cooked and Individually Quick Frozen. What is IQF? It is a process that preserves flavour, texture and nutritional value while keeping products free-flowing and ready to use.
Retail Factory
Our Retail Factory takes already-frozen ingredients and packs it into the requested formats our retail and manufacturing customers need. Our retail factory is also the home to our multi-head weigher, which combines up to five separate ingredients into a single pack.
Packhouse
Our Packhouse handles the fresh side of our business, packing our berries, cherries, and rhubarb into punnets and bags ready for retail sale.
Our onsite cold storage supports our factories, holding product at optimum quality and temperature throughout the process.
Processing that adapts to your product
Due to the nature of our ingredients and offerings, rarely does a product arrive in exactly the form it needs to leave in. Our processing capability exists to close that gap.
We handle the fundamentals in-house: dicing, slicing, blanching and size grading, along with mixing and blending to your specified ratios.
We also produce formats beyond whole and cut fruit. Our purees — including strawberry and raspberry are made for smoothies, desserts and more, and we produce pellets in flavours such as coconut milk, lime and passionfruit for customers who need portion-controlled, easy-dosing ingredients.
Packaging built around your product
We offer a broad range of customisable packaging, designed to suit your product and your customer.
Bagging and Sachets
from 30g sachets up to 2kg bags, for retail and manufacturing.
Bulk Formats
up to 12kg boxes for foodservice and manufacturing customers.
Punnets
single or mixed products, in heat-sealed or flexible punnets, including for ready meals.
Format Options
doy pack, pillow pack, and resealable, recyclable, microwavable or home-compostable bags.
Multi-ingredient Packs
up to five ingredients combined in a single pack via our multi-head weigher.
If the format you require isn’t listed here, please still get in touch. A lot of what we make now started as a customer request.
Developing something new?
If you’re working on a new product, you’ll work alongside our development team, who will take your brief, produce samples, refine the recipe with you, and guide it through to launch.
Because our range spans a wide range of ingredients, we can adapt our own processes and make the changes you need, like a different cut, a new blend, an allergen-free run. All your needs are conversations, not barriers.
Looking for a
Co-Packing
partner?
We offer bespoke co-packing across a wide range of formats, packing into your own packaging with precision and care.
Food safety Importance
We operate both high-care and low-care handling to suit different products and customer requirements, and every batch undergoes post-production testing, with allergen testing available on request.
Our gluten-free production is handled with particular care: thorough cleaning before and after every run, batch testing on each gluten-free production, and regular checks on our factory segregation controls, so gluten-free products leave our site with confidence behind them.
Ready to talk?
Whether you need a reliable supply of frozen fruit, a co-packing partner, or a product developing from scratch, the best place to start is with a conversation.