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Food Safety, Integrity & Quality Assurance at Brakes Barry Mirhabib Head of Central Technical

Complete Peace of Mind

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Why Buy From Brakes?

Where else can you get:

• Access to the largest and most

experienced Technical team in our sector, working round the clock to protect your reputation

• 27 Technical experts working for you
• Over 400 years of combined food industry

experience for you to draw on

• Quality assurance from farm to plate
• Specialist knowledge in:
• All categories - Meat, Dairy, Grocery,

Fish & Seafood, Delicatessen, Desserts, Bakery, Meal solutions, Produce, Non Foods

• Food Safety and HACCP
• Product Assessment & Testing
• Health and Nutrition
• Technical Systems
• Due Diligence
• Risk Management & Horizon scanning
• Regulatory Requirements

Brakes Technical Leadership Team

Nigel Browne Head of Distribution Quality Barry Mirhabib Head of Technical Services, Product Safety & Nutrition Gillian Wallace- King Head of Product Technology

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Gerry Thomas Technical Director

Technical Team Mission

Protecting Our Brand

To protect and enhance the Brakes Brand… ...through the effective management of product quality, safety, legality and integrity

Delivering Outstanding Service

To deliver outstanding customer service through the achievement of technical excellence Satisfy our customers technical requirements Build reliable and robust processes to consistently deliver our objectives

Adding Value

To add value by enabling the development of brilliant products and services. Using our technical expertise to support business innovation in finding solutions, de-risking and delivering at pace

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Quality Integrity Legality Safety

Technical Expertise Technical Excellence

Upholding the Brakes brand standards and providing best in class technical support and expertise to our customers

Protecting Your Reputation

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Risk Policy & Strategy Risk Identification Risk Assessment Risk Management & Monitoring Risk Reporting Risk Management Framework

Integrity, Food Safety, Brand Protection Customers Suppliers

21 Founding Member UK based Food Businesses representing Food Retail, Food Service and Manufacturers

Collaborative Working – Food Industry Intelligence Network (FIIN)

Benefits of FIIN

• Industry

collaboration & leadership

• Response to the

Elliott report

• Data sharing
• Access to insight
• Informs future

surveillance

• Integrity risk

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Technical Team Mission

Protecting Our Brand

To protect and enhance the Brakes Brand… ...through the effective management of product quality, safety, legality and integrity

Delivering Outstanding Service

To deliver outstanding customer service through the achievement of technical excellence Satisfy our customers technical requirements Build reliable and robust processes to consistently deliver our objectives

Adding Value

To add value by enabling the development of brilliant products and services. Using our technical expertise to support business innovation in finding solutions, de-risking and delivering at pace

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Quality Integrity Legality Safety

Technical Expertise Technical Excellence

Upholding the Brakes brand standards and providing best in class technical support and expertise to our customers

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Access to our expertise and knowledge

A Trusted Supply Chain

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Driving continuous improvement to deliver excellence Industry & sector expertise

Sourcing the best quality, produced to the highest standards

Global supply chain, visited by Brakes own technical team Robust product data Effective risk mitigation & issue management GFSI accredited suppliers working to our standards

Transparency throughout the supply chain

Outstanding Quality and Food Values

10 Shell eggs, scrambled egg mix, and liquid egg are all from British farms

MSC Foodservice Supplier of the Year 2014, 2015, 2016, & 2017 Animal welfare

Assured Food Standards

Technical Team Mission

Protecting Our Brand

To protect and enhance the Brakes Brand… ...through the effective management of product quality, safety, legality and integrity

Delivering Outstanding Service

To deliver outstanding customer service through the achievement of technical excellence Satisfy our customers technical requirements Build reliable and robust processes to consistently deliver our objectives

Adding Value

To add value by enabling the development of brilliant products and services. Using our technical expertise to support business innovation in finding solutions, de-risking and delivering at pace

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Quality Integrity Legality Safety

Technical Expertise Technical Excellence

Upholding the Brakes brand standards and providing best in class technical support and expertise to our customers

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2700 recipes in Starchef

Helped over 60 customers with food for life catering mark Speciation: 2000+ meat and poultry products and 700+ fish and seafood products tested since 2013. 132 care homes registered on our care home nutrition course

Information for more than 8500 lines

100% of the palm oil used for Brakes products is from sustainable schemes All 1545 delivery vehicles are fitted with Transcan temperature monitoring systems

Adding value through innovation & customer solutions…

Adding Value

Strategic Priorities

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Trusted Brand Driving

Growth

Compliance with our standards Integrity & Risk Plan Quality & Innovation Ethical Sourcing Health & Nutrition Product Information Technical Mission Collaborative Sourcing

• Drive supplier performance

via Technical business plans

• Ensure Depot compliance to

QMS & food safety support for Ops developments

• Refine product risk

management

• Deliver responsible

sourcing priorities eg non caged eggs

• Enhance horizon

scanning and surveillance programme

• Provide technical support

framework for group sourcing – Direct sales, Constellation, Sysco

• Deliver customer and stakeholder focused

response to Childhood Obesity Plan

• Improve product

information for customers

• Assure system upgrade
• Enhance Product

Quality monitoring

• 3% reduction in

complaints

• Review Ethical Trading

approach

• Address Modern Day Slavery

requirements