Published on: June 20, 2022

Jon White has been appointed as the new MD for the Lincat Group, the UK manufacturer of the Lincat, FriFri, IMC and Britannia brands. Jon who previously held the role of Technical Director succeeds Chris Jones following his promotion to European Group President of Middleby Worldwide in late 2019.

Chris Jones said: “Jon joined Lincat and the board in 2015 and immediately changed the pace of innovation at Lincat. Within months we had a roadmap of new products to take the company to the next level, including CiBO and more recently CiBO+.

With many years of business leadership and experience, Jon has successfully overseen operations at Lincat as Deputy Managing Director since my promotion. I am confident Jon’s experience in the industry, commercial insight and personal ambition will continue to drive the business forward. This promotion is well deserved and I wish Jon every success in his new role.”

Jon White said:

“It’s a great privilege to be asked to lead Lincat. It is a fantastic business, with great people and an industry leading range of products.

The past two years have been extremely disruptive for all businesses in our industry. Our absolutely priority has been serving our customers through periods of low demand, extremely high demand and supply chain and labour challenges. We have not always performed to the levels we expect of ourselves but I believe we are now a reliable and predictable partner but also I understand our customers want a return to a Lincat with stock availability.

My absolute top priority is an ongoing expansion of production capacity. Recruitment is moving at pace and plans are in place for additional equipment to be installed into the factory later this year. Preparation work is now underway for these projects. By early 2023 customers should start to see a real difference.

CIBO+ represents a new chapter for Lincat. We have leveraged a new level of NPD capability. The microwave system has been developed with a team of specialists and our third generation of touchscreen controller delivers the easiest user experience yet. No other UK manufacturer has done anything like this before and the Lincat team is moving onto new NPD projects filled with confidence.

Our sales team is back fully engaged with our customers and message from them is clear. We know what we need to do and are totally focussed on achieving this.

It’s a very exciting time for everyone here at Lincat, I really believe Lincat is a great company, with a great core and a great team, it is a privilege to be a part of this team.“