The colour of a mango fruit is never an indicator of being ripe. Even a green mango can be ripe.

Some of the mango trees are said to produce fruits and flowers even after 300 years of its life. Because of this feature only, mango trees are said to be evergreen with long life and long fertility.

WE DELIVER RESULTS

Kiwifruit is sky-high in both soluble and insoluble fibre, which are essential for promoting heart health, regulating digestion, and lowering cholesterol levels.

Packing

We pride ourselves on meeting our customers needs on any work they may require. From packing citrus, stone fruit, cherries & berries plus exotic fruits, we offer an array of servies some of which are stated below. Tell us what you want and we will get it for you!

Flow Wrapping (trayed & trayless)
Net Clipping
Giro Bagging
Labelling
Punnet Netting
Grading
Top sealing

Order Collation

● In receipt of customers orders we can allocate products using an ERP system to ensure correct pallets with their own identification to any destination.

● Product is collated to customers specifications and pallet requirements, enhancing pallet builds to maximise transport requirements and effectiveness.

● Full product traceabilty from receipt of goods to final destination.

● Strapping, wrapping and pallet turning available.

Ripening

To make sure the fruit tastes right it should be ripened correctly. Our state of the art ripening facility with a capacity of up to c.1200 pallets where our dedicated ripening team and their years of experience in fruit conditioning and selection ensure you get the best quality fruit possible.

Ripening
Conditioning
Selection

Warehousing & Storage

Looking for a place to keep your product in a temperature controlled environment? We can offer storage for c.1000 pallets at temperatures ranging from 0°C to 22°C and round the clock dedicated quality control. Your product will be in good hands!

Storage
Temperatures ranging from 0°C to 22°C
24/7 Quality Control

Primary Logistics Solutions

● Ripe Now are ideally situated within the South Lincolnshire Food hub which serves the whole of the UK with over 1200 daily truck movements of fresh and chilled produce

● Ripe Now can manage your Retail bound consignment from packed & picked orders through the Primary Supply Chain to Retail Distribution Centres via their 3PL partners at highly competitive rates

● Collaborative bespoke solutions with Customer and 3PL providers

● Full POD document and Discrepancy & Claim Management

● Primary management to National retailers Aldi , Lidl, Morrisons and CostCo through to Regional Retailers such as Booths – SPAR , Heron and Farm Foods

● Full UK Wholesale and Food Processing Market coverage

● Over 70+ Destinations covered Daily on Primary Transport

KEY FACTS:

496 containers imported from 14 countries ●
10,951 pallets of high quality product dispatched ●
30.8 tonnes of pomegranate arils air freighted from India ●
BRC AA+, SMETA, SEDEX, Soil Association ●
Boston 4000 m2 – Internal ●
Kirton 1800 m2 - Internal ●
HMRC / DEFRA accredited ●
12 Production lines ●
28 Climatic storage/Ripening rooms - c.1300 pallet spaces ●
3 Cold storage areas – c.1000 pallet spaces ●
Zero Landfill ●
15% Solar efficient – Capex improvement to 40% ●

Company Values: Our Compass for our choices and decisions

● Respect
We are dedicated to treating our employees fairly and ethically. Respect in the workplace supports trust, understanding and recognition of each other’s worth. We value the openness to differences in our own and other's identity that respect creates. Respect in action builds accountability, productivity, customer satisfaction and organisational success. We are committed to all our stakeholders feeling a welcome and valued member of the Ripe Now family.

● Innovation
We are committed to challenging existing practices and developing new ways of working that will add value to our business and the people within. Our people will have the support of the wider organisation to utilise their knowledge and experience in driving opportunities for change and improvement. We will continue to remain integrated with our supplier base, customers, employees and other stakeholders, and will collaborate with them to grow and improve our business further.

● Performance
We strive to deliver the highest standard of performance to our customers and are committed to fulfilling their requirements to the standard they expect. We take a whole business approach and will further develop a culture whereby we all perform to the best of our abilities, increasing the overall performance of the organisation and maintaining our place as a key player within our industry.

● Expertise
We continue to value the high levels of expertise of our employees, suppliers and customers as a point of difference within the industry. Our confidence, competence and knowledge within our niche market will continue to set us apart from our competitors.

OUR HISTORY:

● 2006 - Ripe Now was formed at Coates
● 2008 - 2nd site added at Kirton
● 2018 - 3rd site added at Boston
● 2022 - Extensive converstion project to create additional cold storage at Boston site
● 2023 - Production moved from Coates to Boston

Today the company has over 170 full time employees, (many of them have been there from the very beginning!) and up to 20 seasonal employees. The company operates from 2 sites - Kirton and Boston. Across these sites we have cool storage space of over 1,000 pallets and ripening space for over 1300 pallets.

The biggest advantage of Ripe Now is the team. Every department of the company contains people with years of experience and a real passion for their job. Ripe Now is not just a company, it’s a family.

We pride ourselves in the close relationships we have with customers and suppliers alike.

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OUR PROJECTS:

MAKING

A CHANGE

When eating a fruit think of a person who planted the tree

Our aim is to get the best quality products possible, all year around. To do that Ripe Now has looked further into, and integrated itself in the supply chain.

Ripe Now is working very closely with APEXKO SARL - an exporter in Ivory Coast. It doesn’t only insure a fixed supply of mango fruit during one of the most difficult periods of the year, it improves the local community too. Around 4,200 people in Ivory Coast are involved in APEXKO’s exporting activity.

In 2016 Ripe Now planted its first mango trees in Peru. This way we can monitor and improve the fruit quality from the very beginning. The land features a high technology irrigation system and will be ready to harvest in 2021!