With over 100 years of expertise, Scobies Direct offers a Bespoke Blending Service that helps food companies create unique, high-quality seasonings. We source the finest herbs & spices from around the world and blend them to your exact requirements – from sausages and burgers to pie mixes, to coatings for chicken and much more.

Why choose us?

• Tailor-made blends to match your brand
• Premium, globally sourced ingredients
• Over a century of food industry experience

Contact us today to develop your bespoke blend.

Innovation starts with your idea. To begin the bespoke blending process, we ask you to share a detailed brief. Tell us what you’re working on and what you want to achieve.

Your brief might include:

• A new product launch, a reformulation, or a twist on an existing recipe
• The flavour profile you want to achieve
• The experience you’d like your customers to enjoy
• Any key requirements such as allergen control, dietary considerations, or specific product claims

The more detail you provide, the better we can tailor a blend that matches your goals. Once we receive your brief, our development team begins creating your sample within just 24 hours.

Our NPD team combines creativity, technical know-how, and industry insight to turn ideas into products quickly and effectively. We strike the right balance between innovation, compliance, and cost — all while keeping taste at the centre.

What we do best:

• RE-SPICE: Refreshing or reformulating your products for modern demands
• MATCHING: Precise replication of existing blends, with scope to enhance and optimise
• COST REDUCTION: Smarter formulations that cut spend without cutting flavour
• 'FREDA' TREND ANALYSIS: Our exclusive in-house tool enables us to spot what’s trending

Our NPD team blends creativity, science, and industry expertise to deliver ideas that work — and work fast. We balance innovation, compliance, and cost without compromising on flavour.

Is your recipe losing its spark, costing too much, or failing to perform? Our RE-SPICE service revitalises your seasonings, helping you keep pace with modern demands while delivering the flavour your customers love. We combine technical expertise with market insight to refresh, reformulate, or completely overhaul blends so they meet today’s expectations for taste, value, and nutrition.

What RE-SPICE delivers:

• Freshen Up: From simple tweaks to full seasoning overhauls that bring recipes back to life
• Clean Label: Innovative blends aligned with modern dietary trends and nutritional needs
• Cost Reduction: Smarter solutions that reduce costs without compromising on quality or flavour

If required, our MATCHING service allows us to precisely replicate your existing blends. This option is ideal if you are changing suppliers, standardising recipes, or need a consistent flavour profile across production. With our technical expertise and advanced blending facilities, we can recreate your blend with accuracy, ensuring flavour, texture, and performance remain reliable.

If you wish, we can also go further — enhancing and optimising your blend to refine taste, improve nutritional profiles, or meet new compliance requirements. MATCHING is available when you ask for it, giving you both the security of replication and the flexibility for improvement.

Benefits of MATCHING (when requested):

• Precise replication of existing blends
• Consistent flavour, texture, and performance
• Optional enhancements to optimise taste or nutrition
• Adaptations to meet compliance or market needs
• Available only if you want it – tailored to your request

Ever wondered if your blends could deliver more value without sacrificing flavour? Our Smart Cost Optimisation service combines data, expertise, and innovation to help you reduce costs while maintaining the taste and performance your customers expect.

What we do:

• Ingredient benchmarking – compare costs and spot saving opportunities
• Blend efficiency analysis – identify overlaps and streamline recipes
• Reformulation & lab testing – ensure flavour and functionality are protected
• Packaging optimisation – improve efficiency across production and logistics
• Cost-per-kilo reduction – smarter blends that deliver consistent quality at lower cost

With over 60 years of flavour expertise, we know how to balance cost savings with great taste. The data guides us, but it’s our people who ensure your blends stay bold, reliable, and cost-effective.

Our 'FREDA' TREND ANALYSIS service helps you stay ahead of the market by identifying flavours and concepts that are capturing customer interest. Through in-depth research, we monitor supermarkets across the UK, track emerging trends in restaurants, and study wider consumer behaviour to uncover what’s new and in demand.

This insight allows us to guide your product development, ensuring your blends and seasonings are not only high quality but also aligned with current tastes and buying habits. By blending data with culinary expertise, we give you the confidence to launch products that resonate with today’s consumers — and tomorrow’s.

Our trend research includes:

• Supermarket analysis across the UK
• Tracking flavour trends in leading restaurants
• Monitoring emerging consumer food behaviours
• Identifying flavours and concepts with strong market potential

At Scobie & Junor, we make it easier for food manufacturers to keep production simple, efficient, and consistent. That is why we offer bespoke pack sizes tailored to your exact batch requirements. Each pack is designed so you can simply rip and tip straight into the mix - no weighing, no measuring, no wasted time.

We blend all our own seasonings in house, and computerised weighing guarantees precise weights every time, giving you complete confidence in accuracy and consistency.

This approach gives you:

• Consistency - the right amount, every time, for perfect results
• Time efficiency - no need for staff to measure or portion our ingredients
• Cost savings - reduced labour and less chance of errors or waste
• Improved food safety - fewer handling steps mean reduced risk of cross contamination

Whether you are working with glazes, mixes, seasonings, or bespoke blends, we will supply your ingredients in pack sizes that fit seamlessly into your production process - keeping your line moving and your products performing.

Want to make your production simpler and safer? Contact us to set up bespoke pack sizes for your ready meal recipes.

At Scobie & Junor, we partner with bakers, butchers, and food processors to develop recipes that not only work in production but also excite customers and drive sales. With decades of expertise and our fully equipped Development Kitchen, we transform your ideas into food products that perform on the shelf and at the table.

New Product Development (NPD):

• Bespoke flavours and mixes created for your brand
• On-trend recipes designed to meet consumer demand
• Innovative solutions that move from concept to production with ease

Existing Product Development (EPD):

• Allergen removal to widen your market
• Salt reduction and healthier reformulations
• Flavour and colour enhancements to boost appeal

Why Work With Us?

• Proven results with bakers, butchers, and pie makers
• Recipes designed for real-world manufacturing
• Practical innovation that helps you sell more

Do you want to expand your range or refine your recipes? Our Development Team is here to help.

Imagine if your supplier failed tomorrow. A raw material shortage, a transport strike, or an unexpected surge in demand could bring your production to a standstill. For food processors, the cost of downtime isn’t just lost revenue — it’s lost customers. That’s where Scobie & Junor comes in.

As a BRC AA–accredited supplier with over 100 years of food industry experience, we provide fully qualified, like-for-like backup supply of your seasonings, spices, and blends. With our scale, in-house blending, and multiple UK sites, you gain the security of continuity, compliance, and confidence — even when the unexpected happens.

Why leading processors choose Scobie & Junor as their backup supplier:

• Risk reduction: Eliminate downtime, rejected orders, and lost sales
• Compliance assured: Full traceability with complete technical documentation
• Built-in resilience: Dual supply chains across multiple accredited UK sites
• Peace of mind: No disruption, no stress — just dependable supply

Don’t gamble with your production line. Partner with Scobie & Junor as your backup supplier and protect your business from risk.