Pukka
Della Gregory, Associate CIPD, currently serves as Human Resources Manager at Pukka since September 2023. Previous roles include HR Manager at Eminox Ltd from January 2022 to September 2023, People Advisor at Samworth Brothers from May 2020 to January 2022, and Human Resources Manager at Label Apeel Ltd from May 2018 to May 2020. Additionally, Della held the position of HR & Compliance Manager at Tesco from January 2010 to March 2018, overseeing HR processes and compliance in the Long Eaton store. Earlier experience includes Store Manager at Faith Shoe Group Limited from January 2005 to January 2010 and Associate Manager at Gap from January 1999 to January 2005, managing operations and teams across multiple locations. Della completed education at ICS Learn between 2019 and 2020.
Pukka
Way back in 1960s Leicestershire, husband and wife team Trevor and Valerie Storer started making pies. In 1963, Trevor Storer’s Homemade Pies baked their very first pies. Understandably word of a good pie spreads fast, and the entrepreneurial pair sold over a thousand pies in the first week. As the couple’s little bakery continued to grow, it came time for a new name – something that would reflect their deliciously hearty pies and their friendly, close-knit company. That’s how the Storers’ Homemade Pies became Pukka, a fun and fashionable Hindi-derived word for all things genuinely, properly good. With more than 50 years spent making pies, we’ve become quite the experts. These days our 350-strong team sells around 60 million pies a year in the UK and even abroad. But while we may have grown, we’re still based in Leicestershire just a stone’s throw from where it all began, baking all of our pies on site using many of Trevor and Valerie’s original recipes. We’re proud to make pies that are distinctively Pukka, and with our tasty, honest, feel-good food, we put smiles on faces at dinner tables, football games and local chippies.