Stateside Foods is a prominent food manufacturing business that specialises in supplying supermarket own-label pizzas to major retailers throughout the United Kingdom.

With a workforce of over 1000 individuals spread across two factories and multiple facilities in Westhoughton, Bolton. We are currently in the process of constructing a third factory on site, due to open Spring 2025. Our commitment to excellence has fuelled over three decades of success in crafting delicious pizzas.

Over the years, we have earnt the trust of our retail partners, emerging as a category leader and a pivotal strategic supplier within the market.

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We are a subsidiary of Freiberger, which in turn is part of Südzucker Group, a leading international integrated group of companies across five divisions producing food, energy, and other applications. Positioned within the UK market, we seamlessly integrate with our parent company’s strategies while remaining agile in response to legislative requirements, food trends and market dynamics that influence our operations.

With the support of our parent company we have invested heavily in our existing site with state of the art technologies and where appropriate, targeted automation, our purpose sets us apart from other Food Manufactures, allowing us to focus on quality, innovation and efficiency.


Our values and behaviours: Efficiency, Purpose, Innovation and Quality are at the core of our business.

  • Efficiency: we drive business results by effective communication.
  • Purpose: we promote teamwork and ensure our teams are self-motivated by empowering, motivating and appropriately rewarding to deliver positive results for our business as well as themselves.
  • Innovation: we aim to continually innovate and improve, leading our teams by example.
  • Quality: our teams are reliable and act with integrity. We pursue quality in everything that we do and push our capabilities to delight our customers.


People, Planet and Product underpin our sustainability message and we realise the responsibility and impact of our actions. 

People are Stateside. Stateside is Pizza. Our people are the key ingredient in our success and our achievements have been underpinned by promoting a culture of having the right people in the right roles.


People have been at the heart of our business strategy for many years, with learning and development, promotion from within, an attractive benefits package and mental health support, to name just a few past initiatives.

We are proud to have been awarded ‘Investors in People’ and hold a ‘Gold’ award in recognition of our commitment to our people.