A business which supplies restaurants and take-aways with fresh and frozen food is gearing up to relocate to new £5 million premises. Loughborough-based Ocean King will make the move to the purpose-built base in Derby this summer.
The independent business has been planning the relocation for more than a year and it is part of an expansion plan which will see the team grow from 30 to 150 people over next three years. Ocean King is owned and run by managing director Steven Thai and his family and supplies the Asian restaurant trade across the UK.
Mr Thai – who started the company with his dad 26 years ago – said: “We’ve worked really hard for this, and we’re not done yet.