For 30 years we have been working hard to make products of the highest quality, safe for consumer, produced with respect for environment and for needs of employees and local community. We are responsible!
Openness
We are open to dialogue, new solutions, ideas and opinions, even if we do not agree with them. We sincerely express our point of view.
Respect
We respect each other. We treat our business and social partners with respect. We respect diversity.
Responsibility
We take responsibility for our decisions, actions and declarations towards each other, business partners, the environment and the local community.
Professionalism
We are constantly learning, looking for new opportunities and solutions, we use our knowledge and experience. We comply with applicable standards.
Cooperation
Food safety is of paramount importance to us. Therefore we initiate numerous actions to promote good hygiene and manufacturing standards.
Our clients’ satisfaction is what we value most and we want to guarantee the highest quality at all times. For us, however, quality as such is a multidimensional term comprising the whole organisation along with its culture, systems and processes.
Quality Assurance from field to table
In order to assure high standards of quality, we monitor the whole production process starting from potato procurement to finished product and then its storage and shipment. Quality is also very important as regards raw materials, packaging, technological development and labour. Therefore, our suppliers and processes in our Company are audited by us. We raise standards, but we help meet such standards at the same time. Moreover, we make our standards practical. We ensure that our employees are well trained educated, especially when it comes to production technology. We introduce adequate tools to help solve any possible problems.
Quality Control
Before being placed on the market, all our products are controlled by our qualified staff members. The tool that is particularly valued as far as product evaluation is concerned is elaborate sensory evaluation carried out in sensory cubicles. Quality control and supervision over the production process of French fries, potato pancakes and flakes are carried out in our quality control labs as well as in accredited external laboratories. We also analyse the correctness and accuracy of the control process itself.
Quality Standards
Our concern about the high quality of products is confirmed by the most important quality standards which are regularly audited by certification bodies: FSCC 22000, Halal, Kosher standards.
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Check www.goodfries.eu/en, where the European Potato Processors’ Association (EUPPA) presents The Golden Frying Recipe.
Every production activity has an impact on the natural environment. To produce our potato products, we use water, produce waste and wastewater. However, we spare no effort to minimise our impact on the environment.
In 2001 we implemented the Environmental Management System which complies with ISO 14001 international standard. To meet the standards, we continuously improve our processes so as to reduce their impact on the environment. We also regularly monitor how and to what extent the environment is affected by our activity. We use materials reasonably, manage waste responsibly and promote environmentally-friendly behaviours and attitudes amongst our employees.
Reduction of media consumption
We invest in solutions which help us reduce water, gas and electricity consumption. We have a two-phase wastewater treatment system with a modern anaerobic system thanks to which we can produce our own electrical and heat energy. In addition, our external electricity supplier is increasing the share of renewable energy in total electricity generation year by year.
We have been using a system for recovery of energy from fryer vapour since 2010. The energy saved only in the first year of operation was equivalent to 1 million m3 of gas.
A new system for recovery of heat from hot process wastewater was put into operation at the beginning of 2014. Thanks to this system, we have managed to reduce our average energy consumption for one ton of finished product by ca. 5%.
Environmental education
We realise that only aware and well-informed employees can guarantee a success when it comes to reducing the environmental impact. This is why we popularise knowledge about the environment amongst them.
Tree Planting
One of the events to promote eco-friendly behaviours and attitudes amongst our employees and their families is an annual Tree Planting Day. We planted 19 000 trees in total from 2011 to 2019 and our goal is to plant 20 000 trees by 2020.
Eco Year
2016 years passed in our company under the banner of ecology. Its main objective was to increase the knowledge and awareness of our employees in various aspects of ecology, such as. organic food and cosmetics, saving energy and paper at home and work, management of electro wastes.
We respect opinions of our employees, take into consideration their ideas and provide them with development opportunities. They are the guarantor of our company’s success and we want them to feel safe and secure in all respects.
Safe Work
We strive to make each employee feel that they have a significant influence on their own safety and that of their colleagues. We have observed with great satisfaction that safety culture in our Company is steadily improving year by year.
In 2014, we received the Implemented Occupational Health Management Certification in accordance with Polish standard PN-N-18001:2004 and international standard OHSAS 1800:2007.
Good Atmosphere
We are trying to ensure our employees a good and positive atmosphere in the workplace. Our efforts find reflection in a very low employee turnover rate (below 5%). What is more, almost 62% of our staff have been working with our company for at least 10 years and regularly conducted employee satisfaction surveys confirm that our employees have a sense of stability of employment and want to stay with us in the future.
Development
One of the elements promoting our employees’ development is competency management. The competencies were defined by the employees themselves. We also place particular emphasis on trainings, both internal and external, as well as cooperation with and exchange of experiences and expertise with Polish and international food business operators.
We have a group of qualified internal instructors who share their knowledge with other employees and teach them required skills.
Fringe Benefits
We provide private medical care, access to preventive screenings, and group life insurance to all our employees. In addition, they are offered an opportunity to join the Company Pension Scheme. Our Employee Welfare Fund enables our employees to engage in sport activities or provides them with material support in times of hardship or following some fortuitous events. Our employees’ children can go on summer holidays and have fun at Christmas parties.
Exceptional Year
Each year in our company is an exceptional one. For some time now, each year has been dedicated to a specific theme like “Year of Health” (2014), “Year of Safety” (2015), “Eco Year” (2016). Each such year is full of events organised for our employees and their families to promote health, healthy lifestyle, safety at work and at home or environmental awareness.
We have attached a lot of weight to responsible and effective cooperation with local communities and maintaining good neighbourhood relations since the begging of the company. Our concern for our neighbours takes different forms, such as:
Cooperation with Ronald McDonald Foundation
Representatives Farm Frites Poland SA are members of the Ronald McDonald Foundation council in Poland which, which being a part of Ronald McDonald House Charities, supports programmes directly improving the health and wellbeing of Children in Poland
Our company has supported building and covers maintenance costs of one of the rooms in Ronald McDonald’s House which was built near Children’s University Hospital in Kraków-Prokocim. We are also in the „No to Children’s Cancer” campaign by funding preventive ultrasound examination of children from the region of Lębork.
We employ local people and cooperate with locally-based suppliers
Over 90% of our employees lives in the region of Lębork. We work with about 200 local sub-contractors, service providers and potatoes producers. Thanks to cooperation with them, we can count on attractive prices and faster service delivery. We rely on mutual trust and long-term relationships - with many companies we have cooperated for 20 years.
We support the poor and the sick
With show our understanding and empathy to the needs of sick and disabled people, especially children. According to our principles, we co-finance their treatment only through the foundations to which they belong. We are actively involved in the construction of the first in-patient hospice in the Lębork district. We have over 100 events in the district in which our employee volunteers actively participate.
We donate our products for foundations, orphanages schools and nursery schools
Everyone likes French fries and potato pancakes, which we produce. So with pleasure we share our products and donate them to orphanages, social assistance centers, foundations, as well as to schools and nursery schools.
We support sport and physical activity of children and adults
We realize how physical activity is important for the health of children and adolescents as well as adults, and how big are the funding needs in this area.
We subsidize the activities of the local shooting club, youth karate club, sailing club and indoor football team. Also, our staff can count on help in the realization of their sports passions, such as table tennis, jogging and soccer.
We promote prophylaxis
With our initiative the Ambulance of Ronald McDonald’s Foundation came to Lębork in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023. The ambulance is as part of the "No children’s cancer" campaign and travels all over Poland to perform ultrasound examinations of children aged from 9 months to 6 years . During these actions around 800 kids were examined.
It is important for us to make numerous activities for our employees, customers, the environment and local communities open and transparent. For this reason, in 2014 we published our first Sustainability Report for 2012-2013. The second report covered years 2014-2016 and the third report - years 2017-2021.
