Quickes Welcomes Account Manager

The role has been given to Mark Hindle, founder of the Mousetrap cheese shops in Ludlow, Leominster and Hereford and reviver of traditional Little Hereford cheese.

Mark Hindle also has experience running a farm shop, café and dairy.

Mark Hindle said, “I’ve previously met Mary Quicke through the Specialist Cheesemakers Association and sold Quickes’ cheese in my shops for many years, so I have a good appreciation of their craft and their quality.

“Once the Mousetrap business had been sold, my partner and I decided that one of us would run the dairy and the other would get ‘a proper job’ – so it’s been a happy outcome to have secured a position with a company that I admire.”

Tom Chatfield of Quickes said, “Independent retailers have always been our bread and butter, accounting for more than half of our turnover. We want to reciprocate the decades of support that retailers have given us by further investing in our team.

“Over the past twelve months I have dedicated more of my time on the export market and throughout that period our business has been growing here in the UK as well.

“We are excited to have Mark on board with his sole focus being UK sales to independent retailers and foodservice via our specialist cheese distribution partners. He has almost thirty years’ experience making and retailing cheese, so has exceptional knowledge and passion; values that all the Quickes team share.”