OUR HISTORY
Our past
Founded in 1948, Albert Bartlett invested £30 in an old water boiler and cast iron bath in order that he might set up a small beetroot boiling operation in Coatbridge, Scotland.
Before long, Albert with his two sons Jimmy and Alex, expanded their operations and found a site on Watt Lane in Airdrie; the site that was later to witness the first carrots in Britain being pre-packed into polyethylene bags.
Albert Bartlett today
Today, the third generation of the family runs what is arguably Britain's biggest potato supplier. Every week a fleet of trucks leave our loading bays and supply the nation with one in six of its potatoes.
Our fresh produce is now supplied to the retail, food service, wholesale and processing industries. For our retail customers we mainly pack own brand products, however, some items like the Rooster potato are now being sold in branded bags, complete with a recipe by Michelin star winning chefs Andrew Fairlie and Michel Roux (see RECIPES for more details).