Gluten Free Foods nets deal with Amazon

AMAZON has chosen a small family firm from North Yorkshire to be a major supplier of gluten and wheat free foods for its new online UK grocery store.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jul 2010, 22:00 BST
Updated 20th Jul 2010, 22:00 BST

It is the latest in a string of successes for former chef Sally

Allister and her husband Stuart, who founded their Gluten Free Foods Direct business near Selby six years ago.

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In the last 12 months, the company has won contracts to supply products for selected Asda stores and Budgeon supermarkets across the country.

Mrs Allister said: "We set up the business when I was diagnosed as being a coeliac, which means I have to follow a strict gluten free diet for the rest of my life.

"We couldn't believe how difficult it was to find the foods I needed

and we had to travel for miles to different supermarkets and health food shops just to buy the basics."

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Sally's husband Stuart, an IT consultant, created a small website stocking a range of 90 products which they ran from their spare bedroom. The couple also set up a tiny shop which they opened every second weekend of each month. Annual turnover is now just under 200,000.

Gluten Free Foods Direct offers a range of more than 500 frozen and ambient products through its website www.gffdirect.co.uk

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