Double H Nurseries Ltd
Chris Keefe is an experienced Site Engineering and Maintenance Manager with a strong background in managing engineering teams and projects within various sectors, primarily in food production and horticulture. Currently serving at Double H Nurseries Ltd since November 2017, Chris leads an engineering team of eight in a busy nursery environment. From March 2013 to October 2017, Chris held the position of Site Engineering Manager at a BRC A* certified food production facility, contributing actively as a health and safety team member and implementing a CMMS planned maintenance system. Prior experience includes owning and operating a service engineering business that supported over 250 food manufacturing units and managing engineering services at Kerry Foods and Ryvita. Chris holds an HNC in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has a solid technical foundation from education at Southampton Technical and Ringwood School.
Double H Nurseries Ltd
Double H Nurseries Ltd is the largest indoor potted plant grower in the UK. We grow Orchids, Chrysanthemums and foliage plants that bring happiness to thousands of consumers each week. We are an award winning, environmentally aware business with over 250 employees based in New Milton, Hampshire. Using established lean manufacturing principles and innovative growing technology we are the UK’s largest producer of indoor ornamental pot plants and supply over 8 million plants to major retailers across the country. We are extremely proud to have been credited with Investors in People 'Gold'. We grow Orchids, Chrysanthemums and Roses to supply major supermarkets with products that bring happiness to thousands of consumers each week. We combine our plant growing expertise with an in-house creative capability to design and develop packaging for great value, fashionable products which we then assembly and dispatch through our fast moving, efficient packing facilities. Double H is a family run business operating for over 50 years and we have seen our sales turnover double to £24 million in the last 5 years. We continue to achieve sales growth and currently grow and deliver over 4.5 million house plants to UK supermarkets each year. We have invested heavily in the most modern plant production facilities in the UK, and are leading the industry with innovative, sustainable and efficient manufacturing practices. Our vision and values run through our ‘family’ business, they are what bind us together, strengthens us as a business and enables us to achieve far more together as a team. Double H is proud to be a British plant grower.