UK retailer Marks & Spencer has launched a brand new chocolate, strawberry and pistachio creme sandwich.
The launch follows a £900,000 (€1.04 million) funding in a devoted nut manufacturing facility by its associate provider Greencore.
Made with British strawberries, Fairtrade chocolate and roasted pistachio crème, the brand new product is now obtainable in M&S Foodhalls.
Client Demand
The brand new sandwich builds on the success of the ‘Pink Diamond Strawberry & Crème Sandwich’, which was launched final yr.
The earlier launch recorded gross sales of a couple of million sandwiches in 5 weeks.
As well as, the retailer expects an identical efficiency from the brand new chocolate, strawberry and pistachio creme sandwich, because the launch coincides with Wimbledon.
Manufacturing facility Funding
Accomplice provider Greencore opened a devoted nut manufacturing facility at its Northampton manufacturing facility in January 2026.
The brand new facility permits for protected, large-scale manufacturing of merchandise containing nuts.
Marks & Spencer additionally produces its lately launched food-on-the-move ‘Bang Bang Hen Wrap’ at Greencore’s new web site.
Dalton Philips, CEO of Greencore Group, stated, “The brand new devoted nut manufacturing facility at Greencore Northampton is a superb instance of what a real long-term partnership seems to be like in apply.
“We invested within the functionality, M&S introduced the product imaginative and prescient, and the result’s one thing prospects are actually going to like.”
The retailer highlighted its dedication to long-term partnerships with suppliers via its ‘M&S fortress factories’ strategy, which allows provider companions to put money into product innovation.
Alex Freudmann, managing director of M&S Meals, added, “Our long-term provider partnerships are central to the transformation of M&S Meals. They offer us the boldness and functionality to maintain innovating at tempo, whereas investing with us within the high quality, consistency and scale our prospects anticipate from us.
“Greencore’s devoted nut manufacturing facility at Northampton is an excellent instance of that partnership in motion – creating new functionality in certainly one of our fortress factories and serving to us deliver distinctive, market-leading merchandise like our Chocolate, Strawberry & Pistachio Creme Sandwich to prospects.”
