Young’s Seafood last week hosted a fact-finding visit by Rt. Hon Rosie Winterton MP, Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.

Ms Winterton met with key executives at Young’s headquarters in Grimsby, to find out more about the business and its parent company, the Findus Group. Young’s, together with its sister business in the Group, The Seafood Company, together produce about 40% of all the seafood consumed in Britain each year.

The Minister also learnt more about the Group’s award-winning seafood sustainability initiative, Fish for Life, and toured Young’s South Quay factory, home to Britain’s favourite ready meal, Young’s Admiral’s Pie. She was also accompanied on the visit by the MP for Great Grimsby, Austin Mitchell.

Steve Lidgett, operations director of Young’s said, “It was a pleasure to meet the Minister and introduce her to our business. The visit was a great opportunity to brief a senior member of the Government and demonstrate the industry-leading expertise that we have here in Grimsby, now home not just to Young’s but to one of Europe’s leading food groups.”

Rosie Winterton said:

“I was really pleased to visit Grimsby and to see first hand the operations and scope of one of the region’s top companies. I was very impressed hearing from Young’s about their approach to sustainability and the environment, to innovation, and particularly their commitment to training within their workforce.

“We are all facing difficult economic times but it is vital that employers across the Humber recognise that there will be an upturn and in order that they are best placed to take advantage of this, businesses need to continue to invest in skills of their employees.”

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Notes for editors

Young’s is Britain’s leading name in seafood and biggest fish brand. Building on its unique 200 year heritage, it now has total sales in excess of £300M a year and is based in Grimsby, the natural home of British fish. Young’s has for the past ten years been a pioneer in the drive to improve sustainability in seafood, developing an award-winning programme called ‘Fish for Life.’ This programme is built around ‘Ten Principles for Responsible Fish Procurement’ which also guide all fish purchasing activity within the Findus Group.

The Findus Group is one of the largest frozen food and fish businesses in Europe. It consists of Young’s Seafood and The Seafood Company in the UK, plus Findus (UK, Scandinavia and France) and has a turnover in excess of £1.1 BN.