70th Anniversary Video For AC Goatham & Son
Our latest video for AC Goatham & Son, the leading British apple and pear grower, based in Kent, has gone ‘live’.
The video celebrates the company’s 70th anniversary but also outlines AC Gotham’s 20 year plan for the future, to grow their business and establish more orchards in the Medway area of Kent and beyond.
Celebrating 70 years in business.
Click here to see the video report.
Overall winner of the Medway Business Awards
The filming project was completed in partnership with Coast Communications, led by co-owner, Alison Baldwin who, together with her team, are based in Kent providing public relations and communications services for AC Goatham & Son as they continue to invest in growing their business in the Kent and Medway area. In 2016, AC Goatham & Son was voted overall winner of the Medway Business Awards and now sell their apples and pears to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets.
The project follows the production of a video for school pupils and younger visitors to the AC Goatham & Son business which we produced, featuring our own young presenter, Jasmine Molloy. Click here to see that film.
“With so much competition from fruit growers from all around the world, including the current European Union, it’s fantastic to see companies like AC Goatham not only growing apples and pears but investing heavily in new facilities and acquiring new orchards in the Kent and Medway area,” said Goof Call Media’s Nik Wood who fronted the new video report.
Young presenter, Jasmine Molloy.
“We have worked with Coast Communications and AC Goatham & Son on several previous projects, including debates on Brexit at major farming exhibitions so it was a great progression for us to be involved in producing these video reports,” he added.
AC Goatham & Son is estimated to contribute over £12 million annually in ‘gross value added’ (a measure of goods and services returned by a company into the local economy) to the Medway region and that is expected to rise to over £28 million a year in the later stages of their 20 year investment plan.
Changes due to Brexit mean that British growers like AC Goatham & Son have new opportunities to compete with foreign producers in the future. Most of the company’s profits are being ploughed back into the business and they are looking for opportunities to acquire new farms and orchards in the Kent area. When the business was founded in 1947 by Arthur Goatham, the family were fruit contractors and did not own their own farms. Today the modern business is managed by Arthur’s son, Clive Goatham and grandson Ross Goatham.
