The Team

The thing I love the most about working at E.E. & Brian Smith is the variety.

We work with such a diverse range of ingredients and wonderful suppliers, life at E.E. & Brian Smith is never dull!

When I’m not rabbiting on the phone about fruit, I am lucky enough to visit our top quality processors all around the world, learning about their capabilities.

Away from office, I am lucky enough to have a pear of lovely daughters, who are mischievous little pickles.

They are always up to various capers but am very grape-ful to have them in my life! They are the apple-of-my-eye…

I was fortunate to join the amazing EEBS team in 2019.

I love that we represent a large range of suppliers/customers who are more like family than commercial partners.

I learn more and more as each new season comes and goes, keeping things interesting and keeping me on my toes! Naturally outgoing, getting out and about visiting customers around the country and suppliers around the globe is the highlight of my role.

Originally from South Africa, the UK climate is something I am still getting used to but keeping fit and spending time with my family is a welcomed distraction to those cooler days. To my MD’s disgust, now and then I like to remind the team about our Rugby World Cup wins 😊

I joined E.E & Brian Smith back in 2019, when the world was a very different place. But what’s stayed the same throughout is the buoyant, positive and energetic team around me.

Now, a Senior Account Manager within the Commercial team, I look after accounts of all kinds and get to source products from all over the globe. The insight this company allows me on things like raw material cultivation & harvest; how local & global economy effect price/availability and the hurdles of moving, exporting & importing goods is second to none. And yes, after almost 7 years at the company, I am still managing my weekly 5-a-side football!

I’m thrilled to be part of the EEBS family as an Account Manager since August 2023. From day one, I’ve been amazed by the warm and welcoming atmosphere within the team. It’s inspiring to see colleagues with diverse professional backgrounds coming together, always ready to lend a hand to a newcomer like myself.

With a background deeply rooted in the flavours industry, I am now eager to broaden my horizons and skills with such an innovative and dynamic company like EEBS.

Outside of work, I find solace in tending to my garden and embarking on new adventures, exploring new places.

I joined E.E. & Brian Smith in 1996 as an office administrator, I now work in the sales team as a Sales Manager assisting the directors and dealing with any new enquiries that come in.

I very much enjoy working at E.E. & Brian Smith as each day is never the same, we deal in a wide range of products, and we are a very tight knit team.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my family.

I was welcomed into the EEBS family in September 2021 and I moved to Bicester in July 2021 after being in Swindon for 27 years. My role is very varied and each day is totally different.

In my spare time I enjoy gardening, painting, walking, cooking, the gym and spending time with friends and Family.

I joined E.E. & Brian Smith in 2016 and loved working as a Account Manager for 6 years.

I am now working on our website and social media platforms and enjoy being able to share my product, supplier and customer knowledge.

Outside work I enjoy cooking and spending time with my family and friends.

My career with E.E. & Brian Smith started as an ‘office junior’ at sweet seventeen way back in 1983.

I started at the bottom and worked my way up, learning all aspects of the business, then deciding on my career path and rose to my position in charge of the Shipping and Logistics Team for the Company. Being the longest serving employee I have seen many changes over the decades – telex to fax to emails, manual systems (pen and quill) to computers, declarations to customs every night, then becoming part of the EU (with no declarations) and then coming full circle again with Brexit and back to customs declarations on every import into the UK.

It still only seems like yesterday that I was young, free, single, opinionated, headstrong and with an emphasis that everything must be done right.  These values I stand by and insist be carried on today with my superb team ensuring all our customer needs are handled with love and care and delivered as quickly as possible from wherever around the world.

I am fortunate enough that my husband and children accept that E.E. & Brian Smith is part of my extended family and they have grown to love some of the team having known some of them for 25 years or more themselves.  We have a history with a select few suppliers, customers and service suppliers for over 40 years all of which we have ‘grown and nurtured’ together making one big extended happy family which is what E.E. & Brian Smith is all about.

I take pride in that I have been a part of the making of what the company is today, strong and successful and leaders in our industry.

I’m originally from Manchester, moved to Buckinghamshire 12 years ago and I started working at E.E. & Brian Smith in 2013.

I joined the company in a Sales Support role and then moved into Logistics.

E.E. & Brian Smith is a great place to work, each day is varied and the people who work here make the office an enjoyable place to be!

In my spare time I enjoy baking and experimenting with the fruit purees that we sell!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be a member of the team for (could be an idea to add ‘over’ so it stays current for a bit longer) 10 years, I’ve been promised parole but no news just yet. The company has helped me to grow professionally almost as fast as my hairline has receded.

The office is idyllically placed in the countryside, and the wildlife and surrounding views are a photographers dream. I’m often caught holding up traffic on the country lanes around the office trying to capture wildlife or a landscape.

I love that we sell such a wide variety of products which is constantly expanding my knowledge. Seeing products in retail that we supply for is a lovely feeling, even if it makes me spend more than I intended to.

I’m a huge sports enthusiast, especially football, rugby, and cricket.

I joined the company in September 2021 and have been welcomed into the EEBS family and feel like I have always been here. (in a good way!)

No day is the same and the job is always varied and interesting.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with friends and family and keeping fit.