Our Team

Our highly-skilled management team is a group of like-minded people with over 60 years’ experience in growing, producing, developing, processing, testing, marketing and eating good food. The team all have the same aim: to move the focus back to what really matters – making products they are proud of by using simple and minimally processed ingredients. The staff on the factory floor are proud of their high productivity levels and enjoy the part they play in the success of the company and developing and producing its expanding range of quality products.

All staff have undergone Food Hygiene Certification and Millifoods is dedicated to supporting them in a training programme including NVQs in food and manufacturing with more than 75% accredited to date.

Stephen Drew (Managing Director)

A qualified chef with a lifetime’s experience in the food industry, both in production and new product development roles. Stephen has an extensive knowledge of ready meals production, most recently specialising in broadening the company’s range to include a wide variety of meat, fish, starter and dessert dishes. He is a natural motivator for his loyal team with an infectious passion for good food made with simple quality ingredients.

Shelagh Milligan (Partner)

Shelagh brings to the business a wealth of experience in vegetarian cookery, not least in the many years she spent creating meals for her husband Spike. She has a flair for new product ideas and a no holds barred approach to recipe development. Together with Millifoods’ development team she creates new and exciting dishes to meet an ever growing and more demanding consumer market for vegetarian food.

Brian Keys (Production Manager)

A qualified chef, Brian has nearly 20 years’ experience within BS 5750/ ISO 9000 registered food manufacturing companies. He has an accomplished track record in successfully assimilating new product concepts into production regimes and in managing a production team that produces consistently high quality products.

Richard Mallett (Technical Consultant)

Richard Mallett BSc (Hon), MIFST (PFMG), founder of Mallett Quality Management Limited, is a qualified microbiologist and trainer with over 20 years’ experience in the food manufacturing, laboratory and food safety industries.  Richard’s training and experience has led him to consult, implement and maintain all areas of HACCP and Quality Management Systems to BRC accrediting levels with much success.

Tracey Mitchell (Product Development Manager)

Tracey trained at catering college with Stephen and worked in a variety of positions in the catering industry before leaving to have a family. Now that her three daughters have grown up, she has returned to again work with Stephen where she now heads up the development team.