Rosie Gilligan meets the former rally driver – and Parkinson’s sufferer – who is behind the Chesterfield firm that’s selling rice dishes to China!
WHEN ALISTAIR SUTHERLAND began working for E T Sutherland & Son Ltd, the potted beef manufacturing business his grandparents established in 1927, he hadn’t expected he would leave after only a few years to become a professional rally driver. Neither could he have predicted that he’d return to his roots in 2012 and, with son William, set up Granny Mary’s, and begin a business making high quality patés, ready meals and other food items…