Pukka
Stephen Ward possesses extensive experience in quality assurance and product development within the food manufacturing industry. Currently serving as a Quality Assurance Technologist at Pukka since November 2019, Stephen has also maintained a dual role as Proprietor and DJ at Roadblock Mobile Disco since 2013. Additionally, Stephen has been involved with Pukka Pies as a New Product Development Supervisor since December 1988, contributing to innovative food solutions. Stephen holds a Bachelor's degree in Food Manufacturing (Operations Management), Food Science and Technology from the University of Lincoln, obtained in December 2019.
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.