About Yelo

At Yelo, we believe…

…in championing UK farming.

Our production facility, located in the heart of England, will only process UK-grown, farm-assured rapeseed. We support all UK farmers by providing a home market for their crop, encouraging increased rapeseed acreage as part of normal crop rotation. Together we are contributing to improved UK food security, reduced imports and reduced food miles.

…in working hard to be inventive.

At Yelo, we challenge the industry norms of large-scale vegetable oil and animal feed production. Oilseed processing has historically focused on technologies that maximise oil recovery from the seed. We take a different approach, preserving the varied nutrients in rapeseed for maximum benefit in the food chain. Yelo only uses a mechanical pressing process, intentionally leaving some of the healthy oils behind in the solid fraction, increasing the nutritional quality of our animal feed. We innovate, looking at all avenues that allow us to produce high quality products without over-processing.

… we are what we eat.

Food choices deeply affect our health and how we produce our food impacts the environment. Producing safe, healthy and sustainable food products for both animals and humans is our objective. We deliver nutritional performance through harnessing nature. We only use processing aid or additives where they enhance the performance of our animal feed and our vegetable oil products.

Our Policies

Our Customers

We supply both our oil and feed products in bulk, for road delivery from our centrally-located facility. For both our liquid and solid products we have dedicated, efficient, food safe loading facilities with fast turn-around times for hauliers.

Our refined oil will be used by food producers in a wide range of products as well as being packaged and distributed by others for cooking applications in food service. Oil customers can arrange their own collections or we will deliver using SCOPA registered hauliers to anywhere in the UK. 

Our feed products will be collected and distributed to the farming community through our partnership with AB Agri, using TASCC registered hauliers.

We welcome customers for our existing products, as well as companies who may be interested in collaboration and new product development, to visit us at the facility and to take a closer look at what we can offer.

Our Management Team

Doug King

CEO & Chairman

Doug has over 30 years’ experience in trading commodities.  After graduating in mathematical engineering from Loughborough University, Doug joined Cargill where he accelerated his career to become the head of both the UK non-grain import business and the UK grain business.  He moved to Switzerland in 1997 spending several years in Geneva where in 1998 he became the global head of petroleum trading prior to his departure after ten years with the company in 2000.

Doug then went on to lead Crown Resources’ global petroleum trading business and consulted as an energy market expert to a large US hedge fund before co-founding the Merchant Commodity Fund in 2004, a commodity focused global macro fund that at its peak managed over US$2 billion in assets and continues to this day overseen by the management company RCMA Capital LLP where Doug is the majority owner.  In 2010, Doug and his business partner, Mike Coleman, acquired the RCMA Group, a diversified global physical commodity trading business based in Singapore. The Group’s largest investment came in 2016 with the green-field construction of the first major oilseed rape processing plant in the UK for thirty years, Yelo Enterprises.  The facility relies on renewable biomass for the majority of its energy needs. Today, Yelo Enterprises processes nearly 15 percent of the annual UK rapeseed crop. 

Doug is passionate about sport, the arts and particularly ballet.  He is married with 5 children and is also the recent sole owner of Coventry City Football Club, acquired by him in January 2023. 

doug.king@yelo.com

Paul Foreman

Operations Director

Paul joined Yelo in January 2023. He brings extensive experience in managing complex manufacturing facilities and warehousing. In his prior role, Paul managed one of AAK’s largest refining and value-added packing facilities. He started his career in London, gained experience in both quality and operational management across two continents and various industries from small enterprises to large multinationals including SGS, Kerry Taste and Nutrition and AAK. As an optimiser, he demonstrates success in streamlining operations, addressing short term interventions and building sustainable and scalable solutions. Paul has a passion for learning and development with a degree in Food Science, a Master’s in Business Administration, Lean Six Sigma and continuous leadership development.

paul.foreman@yelo.com