About Us

Freshlink Foods is a frozen sausage manufacturer, based in Glasgow in Scotland.
The business was founded in 1938 as a manufacturer of chilled meat products and rapidly grew to become a major supplier to the Scottish market. Expansion continued and under the Mackellar Watt brand the company’s products became well known throughout the UK. The manufacture of frozen sausages commenced in 1982.

Freshlink Foods became part of the Irish Food Processors group in July 2004 following the acquisition from Freshbake Foods.

Freshlink Foods is now the largest private label frozen sausage supplier to the UK retail market. The total customer base covers both retail and foodservice customers, these customers are supplied with 320 tonnes of frozen products under both private label and ‘Unger’ brand each week.
The factory employs 120 people and over the past year Freshlink Foods has invested very heavily in people training and development. There is a very strong team culture in Freshlink Foods which prides itself on giving customers the highest quality and safest products, at very competitive prices which is reflected in the company’s mission statement.

"We aim to be the preferred partner of caterers, manufacturers and multiple retailers for the supply fresh & frozen meat and meat products."

We aim to achieve this by:

• Providing safe assured quality food products
• Providing first class service by delivering the right quantity at the right time
• Providing first class value by being the lowest cost producer
• Making an adequate profit to enable the company to reinvest in new plant and equipment, grow the business and provide reasonable return to our shareholders

Freshlink Foods operates a policy of continual investment in the manufacturing facility and also in the team. Being part of the Irish Food Processors group enables Freshlink Foods to use additional resources from within the group and to share the most up to date market and manufacturing information.