Richard our Chairman joined the Company nearly 40 years ago with the founder Adrian Scripps. The previously mixed traditional farm of cattle, sheep, arable and hops, through innovation, expansion and continued investment has developed into one of the UK’s largest top fruit enterprises.
Since joining us as an assistant to our Farm Manager in 1991, James Simpson, our Managing Director continues to drive all aspects of the business forward.
Through his dynamic, progressive ideas and plans, he has been instrumental in the development and expansion of our state of the art storage and packaging facility which is the most automated facility in the UK.
Richard’s wife, Jane joined the partnership in 1997 as Director and Company Secretary. She takes a keen interest in the strategic and environmental aspects of farming and also has her own sheep enterprise.
Our journey progresses with Adrian’s grandson William, a qualified helicopter pilot, who is now in training on our farms.
We have a fantastic team of people working with us, many of whom have been instrumental on this journey throughout their working lives and have become part of our Scripps ‘family’.
