Scottish manufacturer Victor Pizza is set to double its capacity as it moves into a new factory in Coatbridge, Glasgow.
Backed by a seven-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland, the business is relocating from its 12,000 sq ft site in Possilpark to a new 24,500 sq ft facility in Coatbridge. The upgraded site more than doubles production capacity and will create 17 new jobs, bolstering the team to 54 people.
It will also allow the family-run firm to introduce new product lines including High Protein Pizza, Pizza Wraps and Mini Buffet Pizza Bites.
Victor Pizza was founded in the 1970s as a small family bakery and has grown into a “5m business while ‘staying true to its roots in quality and tradition’. In the early days, the team was approached by a local Italian fish and chip shop owner with a unique request – a pizza that could be fried – serving up a nostalgic nod to how it was made back in Naples. What started as a backroom experiment became Pizza Fritto, now a chip shop favourite across Scotland, often known as pizza crunch or deep-fried pizza.
The business has also kept an eye on nutrition, teaming up with Donnie Maclean from Scottish food brand Eat Balanced, who had worked with health experts from the University of Glasgow to develop a nutritionally balanced pizza. The result was a pizza made with iodine-rich seaweed and a natural prebiotic fibre in the base and vitamin-packed red pepper paste mixed through the sauce. Today, these pizzas are shipped across the UK to schools and sports venues.
“We’ve come a long way from frying pizzas in the back of a Glasgow bakery. Now, we’re sending out hundreds of pallets every month to customers all over the UK,” said Anne Marie Cairney, co-founder at Victor Pizza.
“We’ve built something more than a factory. It’s a family. And that’s the difference people feel when they work with us. This new chapter in Coatbridge gives us space to grow while staying grounded in the values we started with,” Cairney added.
Kyle Gibson, relationship manager at Bank of Scotland, said the manufacturer is a “fantastic example of how a value-led, family-run business can grow without losing its heart”.
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