16th Feb 2021 - 09:44
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Wholesaler JJ Foodservice has reported sales of £225m for the calendar year ending December 2020, an increase of 1.3% compared with the same period the previous year.
Within eight hours of the Government announcing the first lockdown in March 2020, JJ Foodservice had set up an operational direct-to-consumer offer. More than 30,000 people registered for the service, boosting the number of weekly orders from 24,000 to 34,000.
Sezer Ozkul, chief product officer at JJ Foodservice, said: “Restaurants, cafes and pubs account for the majority of our sales. We lost that, overnight.
“We dropped the minimum order from £125 to £79, kept our prices stable to promote fairness, and sustained product availability. While the rest of the industry was in serious decline, we kept going. It’s a tremendous achievement for our team.”