Goldenfry Foods is a British food manufacturer based in Wetherby

Wetherby

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. The company manufactures most own brand supermarket gravy products as well as many of their own food products. In 1999 the company completely rebuilt their Wetherby factory, the modern building is now an impressive imposing steel structure with glass fronted entrances, this replaced a collection of dating sheds. The company employs approximately 300 full time employees.

Company history

The company started as a small independent fish and chip shop in Wetherby. The company evolved to start making gravy and gravy products. In the 1960s the Sandbeck Industrial Estate started to develop in Wetherby, Goldenfry started to develop a factory there, the company extended their premises there until it reached maximum capacity on its site in the 1990s. The company demolished its factory and modernised its site building a new large impressive structure which opened in 1999.

During construction the tubular steel structure was unclad and could be seen around most of North East Wetherby earning it the nicknames Elland Road

Elland Road

Elland Road is an all-seater football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has been the permanent residence of Leeds United A.F.C...

 and The Pepsi Max after the football stadium and rollercoaster respectively.