Our Services
We can help you to overcome challenges to your business, whether you are a startup, Small or Medium Enterprise or a larger Corporation. Take a look below at the services we can offer.
Quality
Assurance
Gareth learnt his trade in QA working as the Quality Improvement Manager at the prestigious Coca-Cola Enterprises Wakefield plant, at the time the largest soft drink factory in Europe. He was instrumental in the site achieving the Coca-Cola Quality Assurance System, the second plant in the world to be recognised as meeting the standards.
He has since gone on to influence the quality assurance systems of many plants across Europe through his auditing, advising and assisting the bottling operations.
Supplier Assurance
Gareth managed the quality assurance of primary and secondary packaging for The Coca-Cola Company in Great Britain and Ireland and for Coca-Cola and Schweppes Beverages, developing audit systems, performing audits, following up on non-conformances to ensure they were not repeated, and building ranking systems to compare supplier performances.
Gareth was also a trainer for primary and secondary packaging for the British Soft Drink Association for their Manufacturing Soft Drinks Today training course.
Packaging
Development
Working for the Coca-Cola Company across Western Europe, Gareth was responsible for the quality assurance of the majority of the new product launches, including packaging development.
Notable achievements include the lightweighting of the icon classic Coke glass bottle (for which he was quoted in the Daily Mail no less), the Smartwater bottle and the (ill fated) Dasani launch in GB.
Project
Management
Being responsible for the Quality Assurance of new product launches across Western Europe, Gareth often had in interact with multiple stakeholders from within divergent parts of the organisations. Brands worked on include Honest, Glaceau Vitaminwater and Smartwater, Powerade, Aquarius, Coke Energy.
He has also overseen the QA aspects of a complete country conversion from returnable packaging to one way packaging – twice!
Operational Management
In his 30 years in soft drinks, Gareth has worked in many differing roles in manufacturing facilities. He has run operational teams, managing budgets of many thousands of pounds, run quality departments, investigated significant quality issues and has extensive knowledge of most aspects of soft drink manufacturing.
As a recognised industry expert, Gareth for several years led the Manufacturing training sections of the British Soft Drinks Association training course, Manufacturing Soft Drinks Today.
Incident Management & Crisis Resolution (IMCR)
Gareth was part of the highly successful Coca-Cola IMCR training team, and has trained almost all the bottling operations working to produce their products across Europe. He has gained extensive knowledge of how incidents can be badly handled, or when managed well expose the business to little poor publicity (look up Coca-Cola ‘poogate’).
He has access to some of the best experts in the incident management field through his network of contacts built up over the years.