The Real Good Food Company

• 16/05/12

  Holding(s) in Company

• 27/03/12

  Holding(s) in Company

• 20/03/12

  Half Yearly Report

• 01/02/12

  Trading Statement

• 01/02/12

  Replacement-Trading Statement Correction

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  20/03/12

  The Real Good Food Company on course to double in size in next three years, says chairman

  The Real Good Food Company said it is now seeing the benefits of its self-help programme coming through as it posted a strong set of interim results.

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  01/08/11

  Real Good Food Company produces “solid” first half performance

  Firm increases overall sales by 21 per cent during the first half to £110 million while profits at the EBITDA level more than quadrupled to £2.7 million. Merchant Securities rates the shares as a ‘hold’

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  12/07/11

  Real Good Food Company plans to double turnover in the next three years; hints it may pay dividend

  Trading on a forward multiple of 10.9 times earnings (the sector trades at 10.4 times), it would appear that Real Good Food’s current valuation is up with events. But first impressions can be deceptive. For chairman Peter Totté has set his team a three-year growth plan that could utterly transform the company.

   

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  02/06/11

  Real Good Food Company shares get sugar rush from forecast upgrades

  The ingredients supplier is expecting to exceed market forecasts significantly as sugar prices continue to rise and its other businesses continue to strengthen. The shares added more than 5 percent this morning, marking a near three-fold rally since January.

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  29/03/11

  Profit-takers spoil Real Good Food's party after a solid set of annual figures

  The company has successfully, and more to the point profitably, negotiated possibly the trickiest period in its recent history. However the mood was dampended somewhat by a bout of profit-taking after an 82 per cent rise in the share price in the past three months.

• 16/05/12

  The Real Good Food Company: Omnicane ups stake in company

• 01/02/12

  The Real Good Food Company now well placed, say analysts

• 01/02/12

  The Real Good Food Company: Shares up as it reveals earnings increases in 2011

• 14/12/11

  Real Good Food Company reports improvement in EBITDA - UPDATE

• 14/12/11

  Real Good Food Company reports improvement in EBITDA

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  21/05/2012

  Stocktube video - The Real Good Food Company CEO says it continues to invest for expansion

  Pieter Totté, CEO of The Real Good Food Company (LON:RGD), tells Proactiveinvestors that the brand emphasis continues as the company enlarges its operations to five groups. Pieter also explains about the relationship the company has with Omnicane, the Mauritius business that now has a 14% stake and how it opens the door for RGD into the ACP (African, Carribbean, Pacific) group of nations.
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  04/07/2011

  Pieter Totte, Executive Joint Chairman of the Real Good Food Company, talks about doubling the size of the business within three years without making acquisitions

  Pieter Totte, Executive Joint Chairman of the Real Good Food Company (LON:RGD), talks about doubling the size of the business within three years without making acquisitions, the benefits of the EU sugar regime unwinding, strategically strong niche businesses, very low gearing, and putting dividend policy on the agenda
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  26/11/2010

  Stocktube video - Pieter Totté of The Real Good Food Co says he's confident there's the demand to increase output

  Pieter Totté, Executive Chairman and CEO of The Real Good Food Company, tells proactive investors that having weathered the sugar crisis there is the demand to expand. With a modernisation process due next year, Pieter says he's very positive about 2011 in terms of volumes of business, margins and profitability.

The Real Good Food Company plc [RGFC] is focused on achieving growth for all our stakeholders. As we move forward we will concentrate on developing our assets to take advantage of the commercial opportunities arising within the UK food sector. RGFC is committed to providing our customers with the ingredients for their success.

The Real Good Food Company plc [RGFC] is focused on achieving growth for all our stakeholders. As we move forward we will concentrate on developing our assets to take advantage of the commercial opportunities arising within the UK food sector. RGFC is committed to providing our customers with the ingredients for their success.

RGFC was incorporated in February 2003 in the United Kingdom. The main purpose of the company is to facilitate the acquisition of companies or businesses operating in the food sector, and the main country of operation is the United Kingdom. Following the hive up of the subsidiary companies, RGFC is now a publicly quoted UK food group trading in the food sector.

Since our inception as a Food Group the landscape of the food sector has changed and subsequently the Group and its markets have evolved. RGFC has at its heart an entrepreneurial spirit supported by a solid understanding of commercial realties, with focus on the essentials of success; service excellence, innovation and customer development. Through progressive and productive partnerships with our customers we are creating a recipe for success and a solid platform 

RGFC owns the largest independent non-refining distributor of sugar in Europe in the form of Napier Brown Foods, and is also a supplier of bakery ingredients and a manufacturer of sweet bakery products for a range of major retail customers through the Renshaw and Haydens operations. Through the newly re-launched Garrett ingredients, RGFC can also supply a full and varied range of dairy and more specialist ingredients.

Our current trading divisions are:

Pieter Totte (Executive joint Chairman), aged 58, Pieter has considerable knowledge of the food sector and has acted as a corporate finance adviser in a large number of transactions within the food industry over the last 20 years. He is retained as an advisor to various companies operating in the food sector.

Mike McDonough (Group Finance Director), ACMA age 50, joined the Renshaw business in 1989 as Management Accountant at the start of Renshaws rationalisation programme under the ownership of the Schwartau Group. In 1993 he was appointed Finance Director holding this role as the business developed and expanded under the Swiss based Hero Group.

Patrick Ridgwell (Non-executive joint Chairman), aged 62, has extensive experience of the sugar industry and other food sectors, having acquired and developed a number of food businesses during his career. He joined Napier Brown & Company in 1964, became a director in 1969 and Managing Director in 1972, following its acquisition of his family interests in 1970. He is Chairman of Napier Brown Holdings Limited which is controlled by his family interests. He is also a director of Napier Brown Ingredients.

Peter Salter (Non-executive Director), aged 60, was until 1998 a partner in Horwath Clark Whitehill, Chartered Accountants, initially as a specialist tax partner and latterly as Chief Executive of the firm. He then spent some five years in international corporate consultancy where he was involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions, fund raising and other advisory work. He has wide experience of working with financial institutions and companies and leads the Group’s Audit and Remuneration Committees. He is a director of two other AIM companies.

Christopher Thomas (Non-executive Director), aged 63, qualified as a chartered accountant with Harmood Banner, a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1969. In 1973, after working abroad, he joined Breakmate Limited, a vending business, which was admitted to the Unlisted Securities Market in 1984. Following a sale of the business he worked as a financial consultant. In 1992 he joined the NBF Group as Group Finance Director. For the last thirteen years he has been directly involved with the day-to-day operations of the individual businesses within the NBF Group, and was most recently CEO of NBF plc.

Remuneration Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte, Patrick Ridgwell

Audit Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte and Chris Thomas

Updated from company website 14.09.11

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