BROWN IS BACK (WITH HENDERSON) IN NEW FOOD VENTURE
Martin Brown, the former high profile managing director of fresh produce supplier The
Greenery UK, has launched a new business of his own.
Henderson Brown brings Martin Brown together with recruitment expert Steven
Henderson in a new company that aims to liven up the world of food recruitment, fresh
produce recruitment and related businesses.
The company’s services will help clients fill posts in commercial, buying, technical,
engineering, supply chain, quality assurance, NPD, production and operations functions
with salaries from £18,000 per year upwards.
Henderson Brown will ‘headhunt’ candidates for senior roles where other approaches to
recruitment may be less than successful – often because the high achievers who
businesses wish to recruit are too focused with their current employer to be actively
seeking another role. These people need a personal approach to enthuse them to
explore a new opportunity.
However, Henderson Brown also aims to help clients attract individuals who are actively
seeking food jobs and fresh produce jobs using well worded, targeted advertisements in
the appropriate media. It is also aiming swiftly to build an extensive database of job-
seekers with a proven track record from which it can (with the knowledge and consent of
the candidates) offer client companies a selection of excellent individuals.
Martin Brown said: “We could write reams about what Henderson Brown’s values are
and what we stand for but we maintain the belief that recruitment is a simple process
which others make very complicated!
“I have always said that recruitment is one of those jobs which is simple yet is done
badly. Having been on the client side – as well as being headhunted as a candidate – I

have seen the pitfalls from both sides. I really think we can offer something better than is
out there currently.
“Our business experience and understanding of recruitment from both a client and
candidate perspective means we value candidates as highly as clients. We will be totally
open and honest with both ‘sides’ and we will always respond when we have said we will
do so - even if it is to say there is no news yet.”
Steven Henderson said: “We are doing this because we have spotted an opportunity to
offer a no-nonsense, no-frills approach to recruitment where we will stick to basic
common sense values of good communication and good judgement and sound business
sense.”
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Photo captions:
Photo 1: Martin Brown (left) and Steven Henderson – the team behind Henderson
Brown.
Photo 2: Martin Brown.
Notes to editors:
1.Steven Henderson (38) is a seasoned recruiter with 17 years experience in all aspects
of recruitment from headhunting to advertised and database recruitment. He has been
involved in fresh food and horticulture for the past six years and has an intimate
understanding of the market. He has spent the past three years with Redfox – prior to
that he was with Cooper-Lomaz and Human Resources Europe.
2.Martin Brown (44) has held various senior positions in both horticulture and fresh
produce over the past 12 years. He headed The Greenery UK for three years and prior
to that was at flower company Lingarden for seven years. During that time he has dealt
with retailers, food service, food processing, wholesale markets and mail order. He ran
six packhouses at Lingarden – about 600 people at peak periods – and recruited for
everything from line leader to board director in a management team of around 100
people.
3.Henderson Brown operates out of The Foresters Hall in Belton in Rutland, a converted
Edwardian building which was once the meeting place for The Ancient Order of

Foresters, a friendly society still in existence today, although the hall is now no longer a
meeting place!
For more information contact:
Emily Anniss or Mark Pennington
Smye Holland Associates
Telephone: 01733 564906
Email: emilya@smye-holland.com
Martin Brown or Steven Henderson
Henderson Brown
Telephone: 01572 71 72 77
Email: enquiries@hendbrown.com