Eden and Produce Investments have worked in partnership since 2012 across the range of businesses within the group. As the partnership between the two businesses developed, it became clear Eden could support Produce Investments’ specialist interim requirements.

Based alongside the River Chelmer in Essex, c45 minutes’ drive from the east side of the M25 and Greater London, Carr’s Maldon, part of the Whitworth Bros Ltd Group, has been milling on site since 1896. Specialising in niche and bespoke products, including chapatti and flatbread flour, the mill sources 60,000 tonnes per year of wheat, the majority of which is grown within a 30-mile radius of the site by farmers with whom the business has long standing and in some cases, exclusive relationships.

Eden Search & Select were invited to present their approach, network and track record to the Chair and outgoing Owners and were chosen as the right partner for the project. Which was to find and recruit a Group Managing Director and Group Technical & Operations Director as the existing leadership team were transitioning to Non-Executive roles on the Board.

The newly appointed Group Chairman, embarking on his new vision for Fram Farmers set Eden the extremely challenging task in a very tight skills market, of finding a new CEO who had excellent commercial and industry experience.

Greenyard is a global market leader of fresh and frozen fruit & vegetables, flowers and plants. Due to a retirement, Eden Search & Select was approached by the Group HR Director to lead the confidential search for a new Managing Director of the UK fresh business.

Over recent years, Eden Search & Select has developed a close relationship with Whites Recycling, part of the ReGen group of companies, exclusively working with them to identify future senior management for the business.