Pukka
James Lunn is an experienced procurement coordinator currently employed at Pukka since November 2022. Prior roles include a variety of positions at Frankie & Benny's from November 2017 to January 2023, such as a waiter and supervisor. James also has a strong background in cricket, having served as a cricket coach across several organizations including Complete Cricket International and All Stars Cricket, where responsibilities involved coaching children and engaging them in sports. James holds a degree in Sport Science and Management from Nottingham Trent University, completed in 2022, and has participated in numerous volunteer and work experience positions, highlighting a commitment to gaining diversified experience within the sports and hospitality industries.
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.