Pukka
Michelle Pytlakowska is an experienced marketing professional currently serving as Assistant Brand Manager at Pukka since November 2021. Prior roles include Global Assistant Brand Manager for Soltan and Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager at Walgreens Boots Alliance, as well as Assistant Brand & Product Manager at Refresco. Michelle's background features substantial expertise in brand planning, ATL marketing, and strategic initiatives for branded portfolios and own label products. Previous experience includes roles at Boots UK, where responsibilities spanned loyalty marketing and brand assistance for the global skincare brand Botanics. Michelle holds a BA (Hons) in Marketing and Advertising from Teesside University, earned between 2012 and 2015.
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.