BRCGS Food Safety at AA grade, chilled ready meals and soups for retail own-label, around 80 staff
Certificate directory + company site
Use cases
Find food manufacturers, processors and site decision makers
Almost all of them are small private companies with no marketing function. Search by certification, category, allergen capability or region, and Causo reads FSA approved establishment listings, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme records, BRCGS and SALSA certificates, USDA FSIS establishment lists and Companies House filings site by site, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search42,708 food and beverage manufacturing establishments in the US
How to find food manufacturers by certification, category or region
3 results for this search. Pick another above to see what it returns.
Family-owned Bolton site, halal accredited alongside BRCGS, chilled meals and wraps for foodservice
Certificate directory + FSA approved establishment listing
Cheshire site approved for products of animal origin, cook-chill meal components, 5-rated for hygiene
FSA approved establishment listing + hygiene rating record
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on food manufacturers comes from
- FSA approved food establishments, Food Standards Scotland approved premises registerApproval numbers, site addresses and which product categories of animal origin each site may handle
- Food Hygiene Rating SchemeLocal authority inspection rating and trading address for every registered food business
- BRCGS, SALSA, SQF and FSSC 22000 certificate directoriesCertification status, audit scope, grade and issue date, site by site
- USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry and Egg Product Inspection DirectoryUS establishments under federal inspection, grant numbers, species and processing categories
- FDA recall notices and enforcement reportsRecall history, product detail and the facility behind it
- Companies House and state business registriesOwning entity, directors, group structure and filed accounts
- Indeed, Greenhouse, LeverTechnical manager, QA and NPD vacancies as a timing signal
- FDF, Provision Trade Federation, Specialty Food Association directoriesMembership, category, own-label capability and export activity
- Dun & BradstreetFirmographics and corporate linkage where available
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about a food manufacturer
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any manufacturer on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
What certification do they hold, and at what grade?
AnswerBRCGS Food Safety at AA grade on an unannounced audit, plus a separate SALSA approval covering the smaller second site.
SourcesCertificate directory + the manufacturer’s own site
Is the site chilled, frozen or ambient, and can it handle meat?
AnswerChilled and frozen across two halls, and the approval listing covers products of animal origin, so meat components are in scope.
SourcesApproved establishment listing + product pages
Do they make own-label, their own brand, or both?
AnswerBoth. Retailer own-label is the bulk of the volume, and two branded ranges sell through farm shops and delis.
SourcesRetailer supplier listings + the company’s trade pages
Why food manufacturers are missing from B2B databases
97%of UK food and drink manufacturers are small or medium sized businessesFood and Drink Federation, February 2026
Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks, hiring pages. A food manufacturer publishes almost none of that. Its customers are a handful of retail category buyers and foodservice distributors, it wins work through supplier days and a stand at a trade fair, and the company behind the site is very often a family business two or three generations in. What it is legally obliged to produce instead is a regulatory trail: an approval number if the site handles products of animal origin, a hygiene rating from the local authority, a certification certificate carrying a grade and an audit date, filed accounts, and a technical manager vacancy every time someone leaves. Regulators publish the approvals and ratings, certification bodies publish the certificates, Companies House publishes the accounts, and none of those are where a profile-derived database looks.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for food manufacturer leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-site food producers with no marketing function | Largely absent | Absent | Found on the approved establishment listing |
| Filtering on "BRCGS AA" or "SALSA approved" | No such field | No such field | Expressed in plain English |
| Knowing whether a site runs chilled, frozen or ambient | Not captured | Not captured | Read from approvals and product pages |
| Spotting a dedicated free-from or allergen-segregated line | Not captured | Not captured | Read from certification scope and allergen policy |
| Reaching the technical or NPD lead | Usually a head-office generic address | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the regulator and the certification bodies rather than a database. In the UK, every site handling products of animal origin appears on the FSA list of approved food establishments or the Food Standards Scotland approved premises register, every food business carries a Food Hygiene Rating Scheme record, and certified sites are listed in the BRCGS, SALSA, SQF and FSSC 22000 directories. Causo reads those alongside Companies House filings, so a manufacturer with no marketing presence is as findable as one with a brand team.
Those databases are assembled largely from professional profiles and web signals that skew heavily toward software and services. The Food and Drink Federation puts 97% of UK food and drink manufacturers in the small and medium sized bracket, and a family-owned site with sixty staff and two retail customers usually has no profile to scrape, so it never enters the database and no filter will surface it.
Yes, in plain English, including the grade and how recently the certificate was issued. Certification status is not a field in any contact database, so Causo reads it from the certification bodies’ own directories and from the certificates manufacturers publish on their sites, rather than looking it up.
Allergen capability is described in a site’s allergen policy, its certification scope and its product pages, not in any database field. Causo reads those primary sources, so a search for producers running a dedicated gluten-free or nut-free line returns sites where that segregation is actually evidenced, with the wording it came from attached.
The company, why it matched, the evidence behind that with its source, and the decision maker with a verified email address. You can then ask follow-up questions about any result, such as what certification the site holds or whether it is approved for products of animal origin, and get answers with sources attached.
It depends on what is being bought and how big the site is. Food safety, hygiene and traceability purchases usually run through the technical manager or head of technical, capital equipment through the operations or engineering director, ingredients through procurement with NPD alongside, and at a single-site family business the managing director signs everything. Causo surfaces the role alongside the site so you can tell which of those you are looking at.
Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents: in the United States that is the USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry and Egg Product Inspection Directory, FDA recall and enforcement records, state licensing listings and SQF or FSSC 22000 certification directories, and elsewhere it is the national food safety authority, the company registry and whatever inspection records that jurisdiction publishes.
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