About Us
Some things start small and grow into something you never quite expected.
Twenty-five years ago, my mum stood in the family kitchen and started popping corn. No factory, no funding, no grand plan — just a pot, a passion for good food, and a belief that something simple, made properly, could bring people joy.
My sister designed the labels by hand. We packed the first boxes ourselves. And we walked them down to a local video store, nervous and hopeful, and sold our very first box.
That was the beginning of Popcorn Planet.
"Because popcorn isn't just a snack. It's the film you watched with your dad on a Friday night. It's the school fair your kids still talk about. It's the moment at a wedding when the candy floss cart appears and everyone, regardless of age, becomes a child again."
A quarter of a century later, we're still a family business — just one that now supplies cinemas, schools, theatres, national retailers, weddings, and events the length and breadth of the country. The machines are bigger. The orders are larger. But the thing that started it hasn't changed: we still care deeply about what goes into every bag, every box, every moment our popcorn is part of.
We've been making those moments for 25 years. And we'd love to make them for the next 25 too.
Why Popcorn Planet?
We don't do fancy. We do perfect.
Some popcorn brands will tell you about their hand-crafted small-batch artisan process and seventeen flavour varieties. That's not us.
What we do is wet pop — the original way, the way popcorn was always meant to be made — using the best quality ingredients, in our SALSA-certified factory in Wembley. The result is consistently great-tasting popcorn, every single time, in volumes that work for everyone from a local school fair to a national retailer.
No gimmicks. No reinventing the wheel. Just perfectly popped corn, made properly, by a family that genuinely cares about getting it right.
Small run for an event or a full pallet for a retail range — we make it work for you.
We know your deadlines are real. Quotes back within 24 hours, samples on request.
Own label, branded bags, custom tins — to your exact specification.
When you call us, you speak to people who take your order personally. This is our family business.
Who We Supply
Over twenty-five years, we've supplied popcorn and candy floss to just about every corner of the UK food and events industry.
Cinemas, schools, theatres, weddings, festivals, corporate events, national retailers, independent shops, sports venues, and hospitality businesses of every size. If there's an occasion where people gather and great food matters, chances are we've supplied it.
Our sweet spot is cinemas, venues, and hospitality — and promotional and branded campaigns for businesses who want something genuinely memorable. For cinemas and venues, we're the supplier that makes your life easier: reliable, flexible, fast, and SALSA-certified. For promotional campaigns, we're the partner agencies and marketing teams come back to — because a beautifully presented bag of branded popcorn lands differently than another branded pen in a drawer.
Awards & Credentials
We've had the privilege of supplying some of the most demanding and discerning organisations in the country — and meeting their standards every single time.
Great Taste Award
Winners of a Great Taste Award in 2016 — the independent benchmark of fine food and drink in the UK, judged blind by hundreds of industry experts. It confirmed what our customers had been telling us for years.
SALSA Certified
Our Wembley facility holds SALSA certification — the food safety standard required by many of the UK's leading retailers and foodservice buyers. When you work with us, the compliance boxes are already ticked.
Family Business, 25 Years
Founded in a family kitchen in London, independently owned and run for 25 years. From a kitchen table to a state-of-the-art production facility in Wembley — still the same family, still the same values.
Trusted By
From corner shops to luxury department stores, from supermarket shelves to first-class cabins — Popcorn Planet has been there.
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