SH Pratt Group


Growing business is certainly bearing fruit


It’s one thing to feel proud when you see the fruit of your labours – but to see millions of them on a weekly basis is a business target few can aspire to. As one of the highest selling products in retailers, some 30,000,000 bananas arrive each week into SH Pratt to be carefully ripened in their temperature and humidity controlled ripening rooms. T is computes


to over 275 shipping containers or 6,250 pallets per week. It’s a long way from the 1940s when Jack Wells


purchased SH Pratt in Leighton Buzzard. Formerly a market business, Jack was keen to help his sons, Gerry and Bob, forge their own careers post-war- time, and so began the brothers’ journey. Ten years later and no longer a market gardener, but a wholesaler into greengrocers, the brothers moved their operation to an established unit in Amersham, where Robert Wells, now group CEO, still lives. T e family’s journey supplying bananas into the


UK market began in the 1960s when Bob became fascinated by their journey. His interest, and the coinciding decision for the brothers to pursue sep- arate ventures, saw Bob moving his operation fi rst to Kings Langley then Hemel Hempstead to focus solely on bananas.


Robert Wells CEO AT SH Pratt


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