Pukka
Jodie Brown is an experienced Category Manager with a demonstrated history in the food industry, currently working at Pukka since January 2023. Prior to this role, Jodie served as Category Insights Manager at Avara Foods from October 2018 to December 2022, and held multiple positions including Category Manager, Category Development Executive, Packaging Coordinator, Business Unit South Assistant, and Sales Support Coordinator at Weetabix from October 2003 to September 2018. Jodie holds a BTEC National Diploma in Travel and Tourism from Northampton College, completed from 2000 to 2003, and attended Manor School in Raunds from 1995 to 2000.
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.