Farmfoods Limited is one of the UK's most successful privately-owned food retailers, with over 300 stores throughout the country, 3300 employees and turnover of £420 million.
Farmfoods had a choice of replacing its servers and using the same UNIX systems, or using a Linux* system for its Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Farmfoods has outsourced its IT maintenance and development to Valley Technology Ltd, an established IT services company based in Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, and a solutions partner of Novell.
Frozen food retailer Farmfoods has reported a 19% jump in sales to make it one of the top 100 privately owned companies in Britain, according to the Scotsman website.
Farmfoods currently has more than 300 British stores, including 104 in Scotland.
William McCreadie, nother director at the firm, owns the remaining 1.4% of Farmfoods, whose success in recent years has had experts in the food retailing sector tipping the firm as a takeover target.
Farmfoods, the frozen food specialists, have 300 retail branches throughout Great Britain (2004 turnover - £420m).
Valley Technology has been the main supplier of all IT services to Farmfoods, providing development and support of software plus hardware and communications networks for over 15 years.
Farmfoods have three distribution depots that operate 24/7.
www.valleyt.co.uk /farmfoods.php (249 words)
Helen Chadwick The Oval Court(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
don't have carried Farmfoods bags to be from Hoogeveen.
Farmfoods bags to be by the word 'oval' to be from Hoogeveen.
Farmfoods bags to be by the word 'oval' to be by the word 'oval'
Maintenance free batteries keep frozen food moving: News from EnerSys(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hawker has also supplied Link Logistics with a battery management system to ensure that all batteries are correctly charged and rotated, along with a battery handling system to speed-up battery changing and eliminate risky manual handling.
The warehousing facilities were recently expanded to cope with Farmfoods' growth in the region.
Working round the clock seven days a week, and delivering daily to Farmfoods outlets in the region, the Solihull DC despatches around 2000 pallet-loads of goods each week.
ScotlandIS News(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Farmfoods Ltd, the frozen foods specialists with over 300 retail branches throughout Britain, have outsourced their IT maintenance and development to Valley Technology Ltd for over 10 years.
Farmfoods' warehouse servers were nearing the end of their active lives, and Farmfoods were keen to maintain systems reliability and improve functionality.
SUSE Linux was chosen over proprietary operating systems as it fulfilled Farmfoods' requirements, and reduced licensing costs.
Welcome To Farmfoods.co.uk(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Welcome to Farmfoods.co.uk, here you can learn how Farmfoods rose from its roots in Aberdeen to a become a national food retailer, get an idea of what we sell and our current special offers we currently have and the various facilities offered by our stores.
Then read about the challenging and exciting career paths offered by the company and the benefits available to all Farmfoods employees.
To continue please click one of the links on the left of the screen to explore the various areas of this website.
Their special offers are unbelievable cheap, like 2 sweet and sour chicken with rice for 99p.
the girlfriend always worries about the amount of fat in food, but she says that the farmfood stuff isnt actually bad for you either on the whole - ready meals with less than 2g of fat per 100g!
Farmfoods - if you are a student get down there cos it is nice!
If you are having to work 50 hours a week the surely you cant be doing your job properly if you cant do it on the 43 hours an assistant manager is contracted for!
As an employee of Farmfoods indeed an asistant manager i know what farmfoods is really like.
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Cambridge Leisure - 2005 - Farmfoods Take Additional Space at St Nicholas Retail Park(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cambridge Leisure - 2005 - Farmfoods Take Additional Space at St Nicholas Retail Park
Ahead of trading, Farmfoods has agreed to take additional space within St Nicholas Retail Park.
Farmfoods commenced trading during November 2004, and was joined by Wickes who opened to the public later the same month.
I can only stretch to a pint of Stella and a packet of Nobby's, and my designer handbag is plastic and has 'Farmfoods' written on it.
But a girl can dream, and occasionally I get to sample a taste of how the other half live.
I'm moving into the sparkly toilet, using the money from the sale of my flat to buy a membership to the private club, and hanging out with Anita until she lends me the money to buy an pounds 85 sandwich.
