Shire Foods is a manufacturer of

pie A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts ( pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), swe ...

s, pasties, and sausage rolls based in Warwickshire, England. Due to increased demand for their products, the company moved in 2004 from Warwick to a new facility in the town of

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. The company is family-run and was founded in 1970. It currently employs over 100 people at its factory and is the only major pie manufacturer in the United Kingdom to be

EBLEX EBLEX ("English Beef and Lamb Executive"), now called AHDB Beef and Lamb is a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and delivers services to beef and lamb levy payers in England. It exists to enhance the competitivene ...

certified. Shire Foods created the chicken balti pie. Bescot Stadium, home ground of

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, was the first sporting venue where the product was sold. They are now available at over 60 clubs including Newcastle United Football Club,

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, and Aston Villa Football Club. Owing to the sales gained by Shire Foods, this type of pie is now also produced by other British pie manufacturers including Birds Eye.Matchday feeding - how chicken balti pie became a cult , Football , The Observer
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to be their pie supplier for the next 3 seasons.

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