| Founded in Charing, Kent under the name of Knevitts – was a bakery and developed a bread type to suit an instant soup crouton application. | 1980 |
| 1982 | Moved to Ashford, Kent as Chaucer Foods Ltd - Developed this into a manufacturing practice and started supplying croutons to soup manufacturers around the world. |
| Moved to Hull to get closer to its 2 main raw material suppliers – Jackson for Bread and AAK for Oil. | 1988 |
| 1993 | Purchased Pearts Bakery to become vertical on bread supply and remove competitor from the market. |
| Purchased Novaglen pasta facility in Canterbury and changed the name to Pilgrim Pasta. | 1994 |
| 1995 | Purchased the Saumur Freeze Drying plant from Unilever and became involved in FD veg and herbs. Chaucer Foods spray dried mushroom powder factory also. |
| Closed Pilgrim Pasta in Canterbury and moved pasta line to France. | 1999 |
 1999 | Began supply of FD fruit to Kellogg Europe followed by supply to USA in 2000. |
| Began supply of Salad Croutons in Sachets to Salad Manufacturers. | 1999 |
| 2000 | Established Chaucer Foods Inc in USA. |
| Opened rep office in Beijing China. | 2001 |
| 2003 | Established full Chinese company with office in Qingdao and Factory in Huangdao Free Trade Zone and holding company in Hong Kong. |
| Launched Pane Italia bread snacks and won Good Food Award. | 2004 |
| 2005 | Opened new Huangdao Sorting Centre - original facility opened in 2003. |
| Chinese growing programme started. | 2005 |
| 2006 | Freeze dried production starts in Linyi facility. |
| Established Chaucer Foods Chile. | 2010 |
| 2011 | Launched Clusters. |
| Opened Chaucer Foods Inc office and Research and Development facility in Battle Creek, MI USA. | 2012 |
| 2012 | Launched Starbucks refresher FD fruits |
| Launched Bread snacks on Emirates airlines. | 2012 |
 2013 | Commenced with investment in PepsiCo manufacturing plant. |
| Commenced with investment in new US plant. | 2014 |
Supplying quality ingredients since 1980
Chaucer has gone from strength to strength ever since our very first bakery was opened in Kent. Our success is based on quality. Quality product, quality service, quality people.
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