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PK Food Concepts has announced the appointment of new chief executive Paul Kingsley-Bates to head up its Tasties Sandwiches and Pasta King businesses.
Kingsley-Bates joined to board of PK Food Concepts in January replacing Howard Farquar who stepped down at the end of 2014.

Kingsley-Bates commented on his new role, “Whilst the business has already achieved a significant amount in a relatively short timescale there is clearly still massive opportunity for growth and I am looking forward to working with the senior management teams in both companies to continue to deliver our customers the highest level of quality and service as we build the sales momentum of our brands.”

Most recently, Kingsley-Bates has spent two years in the Cayman Islands as Chief Operating Officer of Jamaican Producers Group’s £200m global food business and before that was Managing Director of Adelie’s Food Partners business where we was instrumental in the development and launch of the UK’s leading sandwich brand URBAN eat.

Before joining Adelie, Kingsley-Bates was CEO of fruit juice business Sunjuice and prior to that held a number of senior roles within the pan-European chilled convenience food group Uniq plc, ultimately heading up its chilled desserts business.

PK Food Concepts Chairman Antoine Raoux said “I am delighted that we have been able to attract someone of Paul’s calibre and experience to lead our business at this important phase of its development and I am very excited about working alongside him as we accelerate the fantastic progress we have already made in establishing our Pasta King and Tasties brands.”

PK Food Concepts, founded in November 2009, comprises of both Pasta King and Tasties Sandwiches and combined offers a range of hot and cold meals and snacks from two facilities in the North and South of England.