founder trevor storer headquarters leicestershire united kingdom key people tim and andrew storer products pies and pasties number of employees 320 website pukkapies.co.uk pukka pies is a manufacturer of pies based in syston leicestershire united kingdom . a family company founded in 1963 by trevor storer as trevor storer s home made pies it was named pukka pies in 1964 . it is currently run by his sons tim and andrew . it employs 262 people at its factory in syston producing 180 000 pies and pasties per day . with the company s net worth of 35 million in 2003 and turnover in 2007 of 25 million trevor storer was the 904th richest person in the united kingdom according to a sunday times survey . 1 contents 1 products 2 sale at football grounds 3 promotion 4 see also 5 references 6 further reading 7 external links products edit the company s products include sausage rolls catering sausages frozen puff pastry 2 and non meat foods with the potato cheese and onion pasty and vegetable pre sheeted puff pastry roll approved by the vegetarian society . 3 according to the company the favourite pie flavours in the united kingdom based upon its sales are 4 flavour popularity steak & kidney 42 % chicken & mushroom 32 % minced beef & onion 18 % others steak ; meat & potato ; balti ; cheese beer & veal 8 % a pastiche of pierre auguste renoir s painting le d jeuner des canotiers hangs in the reception at the headquarters with the original characters replaced by members of the storer family . 2 pukka pies are most commonly seen for sale in chip shops . in 2008 the company started selling its pies in uk supermarkets for the customer to heat up at home . sale at football grounds edit millmoor then the home ground of rotherham united f.c. was the first sporting venue where pukka pies were sold . rotherham united s supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match with a consumption 40 % above the football league average . 5 promotion edit several workers at the factory posed for a nude calendar for 2006 in order to raise money for the tsunami appeal and the nspcc . 6 advertising slogans have included socialise with pukka pies and pukka pies don t compromise which has been the subject of satire . 7 the main stand at boundary park home of oldham athletic a.f.c. is called the pukka pies stand . it is also called the pukka pies stand for the main stand of rotherham s home new york stadium . 8 the company is the official sponsor of the widely criticised 9 england band who also play for sheffield wednesday . 10 the company sponsored the 2009 uk snooker championship 11 and the winner china s ding junhui was awarded his body weight in meat pies 276 to match his 69 kg weight . he later announced that he would donate all the pies to homeless and roofless at christmas harc a sheffield based charity . 12 see also edit pukka pies england band references edit trevor storer . rich list . london times newspapers ltd. 2003 . retrieved 2010 05 22 . a b keeping it in the family . bake & take magazine . bakery.co.uk . 2005 10 04 . stock up on the pukka pies just in time for national vegetarian week 2002 press release . vegetarian society . 2002 05 16 . go figure pie chart . independent on sunday . independent newspapers uk limited . 2005 11 20 . dead link ashdown john 2010 01 27 . is rotherham really the pie capital of the football world . the guardian . london . retrieved 2010 05 22 . christian.march 2005 12 15 . calendar lads do a pukka job . melton today . upsideclown . upsideclown . retrieved 2013 09 10 . duncan adams 2004 07 26 . the essential football fan 2005 . aesculus press ltd. p. 143 . isbn 1 904328 22 9 . gallagher paul 20 october 2013 . brassed off england fans seek great escape from supporters band . the guardian . retrieved 20 october 2013 . john sinclair 2006 05 11 . footballs pukka band . bbc news . http www.worldsnooker.com uk championship09 qualifying news.htm tid 145 ding donates uk prize to charity . bbc news . 2009 12 16 . retrieved 2010 05 22 . further reading edit michelle knott 2006 03 01 . who ate all the pies . food manufacture . william reed publishing . external links edit official website v t e british pies sweet apple pie bakewell tart banoffee pie bedfordshire clanger black bun custard tart manchester tart mince pie rhubarb pie treacle tart savoury bacon and egg pie bedfordshire clanger bridie butter pie chicken and mushroom pie corned beef pie cornish pasty cottage pie cumberland pie curry pie devizes pie fish pie game pie homity pie killie pie meat and potato pie melton mowbray pork pie pork pie scotch pie shepherd s pie squab pie stargazy pie steak pie steak and kidney pie steak and oyster pie woolton pie manufacturers clark s pies dickinson & morris fray bentos ginsters higgidy holland s pies mr kipling peter s poole s pork farms pukka pies shire foods square pie wall s wrights pies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pukka pies & oldid 743609220 categories british pie brandscompanies based in leicestershirefood and drink companies established in 1963british companies established in 1963privately held companies of the united kingdomsausage companieshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from september 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 11 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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