Riverford employees to share £1.3m payout as veg box firm’s profits jump

The number of boxes delivered rose to 70,000 during the 2023 Christmas period, up from a steady 65,000 during the rest of the year. Photograph: Stuart Everitt/Riverford Organic Farmers Ltd

Employees of Riverford will share in a payout of £1.3m after the organic vegetable box company more than doubled profits last year.

More than 1,000 staff at the Devon-based group, which began making deliveries from an old Citroën in 1993, will receive about £1,000 each as the employee-owned company nearly tripled its annual payout to workers.