High-Quality, Delicious, Food Products
Creating Flavourful Foods for Generations
At Walter Black Foods, we are passionate about creating high-quality, delicious food products that bring people together. With decades of experience in the food manufacturing industry, we specialise in producing a wide range of flavourful products designed to meet the needs of today’s consumers. From a wide range of savoury and sweet sauces to a variety of mustards, vinegars and pickled vegetables, our commitment to quality and innovation ensures that every product we craft meets the highest standards of taste, safety, and sustainability.
Our Brands
The Nation’s favourite, no chippy is complete without an addition of one of our signature chip shop pickled onions, or lashings of our famous chippy sauce. Or for your sweet tooth, our signature Raspberry Ice Cream syrup.
The Gold Star brand continues to grow and develop, with our retail range becoming increasingly popular, being stocked and available through major high street retailers as well as your local convenience store. ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Co-op, ALDI, LIDL, KeyStore, USave and many others are home to a range of our pickled onions, vinegars, sauces and syrup.
Our foodservice range continues to be ever prominent. Our key distributors that ensure your favourite fish & chip shop is stocked include Henry Colbeck, T. Quality, Jon Dow Distribution, Booker, Bestway & Batleys. We pride ourselves on ensuring our products are as widely available as possible and to that end, you will also be able to find our foodservice range at your local wholesaler, as we ensure all independent wholesalers across Scotland are stocked with a wide range of our product mix. Should you need more details on stockists of specific products, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
Our ever-growing and leading food service brand, designed and manufactured to satisfy a wide range of requirements across the catering and food service industry, whilst also offering products for retailers and manufacturers. From our Tomato Ketchup to our range of non-brewed condiments and blended vinegars, look no further than the best value products in food service.
Whether served as is, or used as part of an ingredient within your restaurant, takeaway or café, these reliable and delicious products will enable you to leave your customers’ leaving satisfied with both quality and value.
Our renowned tomato ketchup caters for restaurants, cafes, takeaways and beyond, being manufactured in booth 4kg and 2kg tubs. We also fill the product for other manufacturers to use as part of their own production processes, using our expertise to fill the product into 1000ltr bulk containers.
Our AMB speciality non-brewed condiments are available for retail, food service and industrial customers, with a wide range of vinegar style products with different spice extracts available to suit you and your customers needs. From table-topping 284ml bottles, to back-of-house 5ltr and 20ltr containers and 1000ltr bulk containers, look no further for your cost effective vinegar style product range.
Please get in touch for confirmation on stockists, or if you would like to list directly, our team will be happy to help.
The Hallamshire brand is synonymous with premium quality, across retail, foodservice and industrial markets. Providing a wide and varied range of vinegars, from a high quality crisp spirit vinegar to an incredibly well balanced rice vinegar, along with exquisite wine and cider vinegars to enhance and enrich your restaurants food. Beyond this, the Hallamshire Tomato Ketchup and Brown Sauce are our premium sauce products, crafted carefully and produced to the highest standard, these will ensure your customers keep coming back.
We pride ourselves on our flexibility and the willingness to grow the Hallamshire product portfolio, whether this be in sauces or vinegars. We are always happy to hear from customers, both new and existing, around requirements that can help us further diversify and grow our premium product range.
Please get in touch for confirmation on stockists, or if you would like to list directly, our team will be happy to help.
Find our broadest and most varied foodservice range complete with a diverse offering of squeezy 1ltr sauces, 4ltr catering tubs and 20ltr buckets. Servicing catering, restaurants, cafes, takeaways, food trucks, festivals and events across the country, whatever your type of food service or events company you have, this range will have you covered.
A selection of tomato ketchups, ranging from a rich, premium recipe to a cost-effective, economy-style sauce, a sweet and tangy brown sauce are the staples of a complete sauce range including, burger sauce, burger relish, mild mustard, BBQ sauce, chilli and sweet chilli sauce, mayonnaise, garlic mayonnaise salad cream and mint sauce. This offering is perfect for those in the foodservice, catering and events trade.
The development and nurturing of this brand puts a key emphasis on the demands of the consumer, we remain committed and driven to continue to innovate and develop this range. Continue to watch this space for further growth and new products!
Most widely known for its famous Original English Mustard, the brand has been widely consumed across the UK and demand continues to grow. Perfectly salty, earth and strong, this mustard is the go-to accompaniment for meats and more!
We have continued to develop the range, and the brand proudly offers a huge range of popular and boutique mustards for the retail, foodservice, and manufacturing sectors.
Everything from English, French, Dijon, wholegrain and German-style mustards are available. We also proudly produce certified gluten-free English mustard in the range.
For more details or instant access to our world-famous Original English Mustard, please visit the Taylors Products website, where the retail range is available for purchase.
Walter Black Foods acquired the firm Johnstone Baird & Co in the 1930s to delve into export markets, and still to this day ships this range of premium quality sauces around the globe.
Continuing to grow this range and products closely affiliated for over 80 years throughout countless external changes and pressures speaks to the relationship we have with our customers and consumers.
Please do not hesitate, wherever in the world you are to enquire about the product range and the availability of the Bairds range.
Private Branding Services
At Walter Black Foods, not only do we supply our branded products into all food markets, we love to work with customers across the spectrum to bring your dreams and vision to life.
When we say, anything, we really mean anything that we produce we are capable of producing into your very own brand! Everything from sauces to pickled vegetables and beyond.
This offers a unique take and the opportunity to catch your customer’s attention with your own label.
We have been working with customers on this service for over 30 years, and we show no sign of slowing down.
We would love to hear about your ideas for your brand, and offer guidance and support on how we can bring your vision to life. Please reach out and make an initial enquiry and one of our experienced account managers will be on hand to answer all your queries and guide you through the process.
Global Reach & Target Market
Here at Walter Black Foods, we aspire to set no limit on geographical boundaries of the products we manufacture and sell. Our aim is simple – for our products to be enjoyed by as many consumers as possible.
Some of our products are synonymous with a taste of home and we understand that sometimes the flavour of a true Gold Star pickled onion cannot be matched.
We are familiar and experienced with servicing requirements for distributors and re-sellers across the world and endeavour to further develop and grow the demand for our products.
No matter where or who you are, we will be delighted to hear from you to discuss the products we can supply and the offering they will present to your customers and consumers around the world!
From Humble Beginnings to a Leading Food Manufacturer
The Formation of Walter Black (Gold Star)
At the end of the 19th century a young Walter Black uprooted from rural Aberdeenshire and headed to Glasgow in search of work and a new life. Initially trading whatever was available, he quickly found that food products were a rewarding trading area. It was then he decided to start a food manufacturing company and so Walter Black (Gold Star) was formed in 1901. The development of corner shops evolved and so they began to be serviced with deliveries using horse and cart.
Aquisition of Johnstone Baird & Co
Local competitors were bought over also. Around 1930 Johnstone Baird & Co, based in Glasgow, were acquired as they had an export side. The supply of manufactured products were now on their way to many British Colony countries. With the influx of foreign traders and entrepreneurs, Fish and chip shops, ice cream parlours and cafes were quickly opening up, not just in Glasgow, but throughout Scotland. The business evolved and adapted to be able to supply as many of their needs as possible. What could be manufactured was manufactured, what could not, would be bought in and sold on. Replacing the horse and cart with motor vehicles meant quicker and larger deliveries could be made.
Leadership Transition
In December of 1941 Walter Black had a heart attack and died. His son, also called Walter (2) was called back from national service to take over the running of the business. His son, also called Walter (3), came into business in 1962 and they worked hard together to develop the business. Moving into supplying wholesalers, cash and carry’s and then supermarkets. A move into larger and more suitable premises in 1990 enabled the company to continue its development. Achieving 100 years in business in 2001 and being in a position to supply many of their products in own-label formats.
Strict Quality Control
Our state-of-the-art production facilities are equipped with the latest technology, and we adhere to strict quality control processes to guarantee that our products are fresh, consistent, and packed with flavour. We prioritise the use of natural ingredients and are constantly exploring new ways to incorporate sustainable practices into every step of our manufacturing process.
Strengthened by Commitment
The business now in its fourth and fifth generations continues to evolve. With acquisitions being made in England, Walter Black Foods Ltd has increased its geographical footprint as well as its product and brand offerings. No company can survive over 100 years without a loyal and passionate team and we are fortunate to have had this over all these years. Our commitment to hard work, focused and directed investment, quality, consistency, flexibility and tradition will hopefully ensure that our products are available for generations to come.
Proud to Serve
At Walter Black Foods we understand that food is more than just sustenance—it’s an experience. Whether you’re enjoying a quick snack or preparing a family meal, our products are designed to bring joy to every bite. We’re proud to serve customers around the world and remain dedicated to innovation, quality, and excellence in everything we do. Thank you for choosing Walter Black Foods where great taste and quality always come first.
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