Charlie Bigham’s names new Marketing Director

Charlie Bigham’s, creator of tasty dishes to pop in the oven, has bolstered its senior team with the appointment of a new marketing director to support the ongoing growth of the business.

Kerry Collinge has joined the fast-growing company with over 20 years’ marketing experience in the food and drink sector. Kerry previously served as marketing director at healthy snack brand Nine Foods and has also worked in senior marketing positions for food and drink brands including Cadbury’s, Ab InBev and Carlsberg.

She will be responsible for leading the strategic direction of Charlie Bigham’s marketing efforts and building on the brand’s long-established reputation by raising consumer and trade awareness of its food innovation pipeline. Her main focus will be to recruit more consumers to the widely-available premium food brand through inventive creative campaigns, shopper trials and successful communication of the company’s values and flavoursome meals portfolio.

The announcement comes as Charlie Bigham’s launches a new ‘World of Grains’ product range featuring seven new exciting and contemporary dishes based on popular world flavours like chicken katsu curry and salmon teriyaki. The launch also coincided with the brand’s first nationwide out-of-home advertising campaign which features fun, tongue-in-cheek headlines urging consumers to put an end to disappointing evening meals and takeaways.

Kerry Collinge, marketing director at Charlie Bigham’s, comments:

Patrick Cairns, CEO at Charlie Bigham’s, adds:

Kerry’s appointment follows a period of accelerated growth for the pre-prepared luxury food brand, which saw its retail sales value increase to £68m in 2017, with sales up 15% over the last year.

The senior marketing appointment comes as part of a sizeable recruitment for the business which has also seen Rob Farr (head of procurement), Mark Bagwell (operations director) Rupert Wilday (head of food) and Mark Howgego (commercial director) join the company in the last year.

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Notes to Editors:

Inspired by his travels and love of cooking, Charlie Bigham set up shop back in 1996 with the sole aim of creating really delicious dishes for foodies – putting in all the care and attention that you would if you were to cook them yourself.  Using top quality ingredients, his goal was to help people steal back some quality time by doing all the dinner prep for them. Today, the Charlie Bigham’s brand now boasts over 45 delicious recipes, with best-selling dishes including Fish Pie and Chicken Tikka Masala. www.bighams.com