Pukka
Olga Lakstigala is currently working as a QA Manager at Pukka. Prior to this, Olga held the position of QA Shift Manager at Bakkavor. With a background in chemistry, Olga has extensive experience in managing QA teams, ensuring product quality, and maintaining compliance with legal requirements in various companies such as Samworth Brothers, where Olga also represented the company on technical system and quality issues. Olga's work experience includes roles as a Senior Quality Auditor, Quality Auditor, and Production Operative. Their expertise extends to medicinal chemistry, fine fragrance creation, and formulation optimization. Olga holds a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies.
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.