Business Profile: You'll Get a Taste for Patties ; John Revill Talks to Wade Lyn, Managing Director of Jamaican Pattie Maker Cleone Foods About the Food of His Homeland and the Importance of Business Mentors

Birmingham Post › September 23, 2006

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Wade Lyn has come a long way from a seven year old who arrived in Britain on his own with his name tag fastened to his coat.

Wade, who comes originally from Jamaica, is now the managing director of Cleone Foods, a pounds 2.1 million business which employs 50 people in Birmingham.

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Business Profile: You'll Get a Taste for Patties ; John Revill Talks to Wade Lyn, Managing Director of Jamaican Pattie Maker Cleone Foods About the Food of His Homeland and the Importance of Business Mentors

The firm, which he founded in 1988, specialises in making patties - a snack which consists of pastry filled with ingredients like chicken, lamb, vegetables and Caribbean spices.

Nowadays the company, based in Hockley, makes more than 100,000 of its Island Delight patties a week, and has cornered about 55 per cent of the UK pattie market.

Indeed the food is so popular, that he sells to 60 per cent of Britain's prisons as well.

And it all started with his interest in the food from his homeland.

Wade said: "I grew up in Jamaica until the age of seven, and then my paren...

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