Pukka
Farzana Rajabaly is an experienced training specialist currently employed at Pukka since November 2021. Previously, Farzana served as a production supervisor at Fiona Cairns Limited from July 2021 to November 2021 and as a training officer at Bakkavor Desserts Leicester from February 2020 to July 2021, where responsibilities included leading and managing training initiatives. Farzana's career with Blueberry Foods spanned from 2010 to 2020, progressing through roles such as team leader, senior trainer, and trainer, with a focus on high care team leadership and operational responsibilities. Prior to Blueberry Foods, Farzana worked as a production operative and agency worker at Samworth Brothers. Educationally, Farzana holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from South Gujarat University and graduated from Our Lady of Fatima Convent High School.
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.