About Us

HumberVHB was formed in 2001 when Humber Growers Ltd., a leading cucumber grower based in East Yorkshire acquired Van Heyningen Brothers Ltd., a leading tomato grower based in West Sussex. Both businesses date back to the 1960s when they started growing salad crops.

Now based at two sites in West Sussex and one in East Yorkshire, we have approximately 430 full time employees. We began producing fresh herbs in 1989 and today we are the UK's largest producer / suppliers of fresh herbs to the UK retail market. Our two nurseries in West Sussex produce over 14 million fresh potted herbs per year and our Sussex packhouse supplies over 23 million packs of fresh cut herbs per year, sourced from our own production and selected other British and overseas growers. We have been producing Salad Cress at our West End Nursery for over 40 years and today we supply over 12 million punnets of salad cress per year.

We grow 4 acres of speciality tomatoes at our Runcton Nursery near Chichester in West Sussex.

Our Head Office is located at our Welton site in East Yorkshire. This is also the company's main packing facility with the capacity to supply over 7 million cases of fresh produce each year. The site is registered with the Soil Association to pack organic fresh produce.