Food Chain - Issue 208 - October 2025 | Page 116

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From juicy marinades to crispy coatings, chicken is everything at Love Joes. Founded by husbandand-wife team, Joe and Doulla Koumi, back in 1994, Love Joes provides delicious chicken products and food production solutions to the UK food industry’ s biggest names. Boasting a 30-year legacy, the company is renowned for delivering quality and flavor by the truckload, completing around 2000 deliveries every week to a wide scope of industry sectors. All its marinated chicken is British Red Tractor certified, available in a variety of different cuts and flavor profiles. With over 15 bold and exciting flavor profiles to choose from, marinated or coated, Love

Joes’ recipes blend classic favorites, such as BBQ and Tikka, with innovative twists that keep menus fresh and tastebuds tingling. Whilst chicken products sit at its core, Love Joes also offers an array of breads, curry sauces, sides, and vegetarian delights, and with Halal and gluten-free options available, the company promises a tasty solution for every palette.
“ We started Love Joes as a husbandand-wife team in the early 1990s with a simple but bold idea: to bring healthier, flavor-packed chicken to everyday menus,” begins Joe Koumi, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Love Joes.“ Our very first Mediterranean Chicken marinade became such a hit that demand quickly grew beyond what we could supply locally. That push from customers gave us the confidence to launch Chicken Joes, eventually rebranding as Love Joes as our range expanded beyond chicken alone.”
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