Riverford employees to share £1.3m payout as veg box firm’s profits jump

More than 1,000 staff at Devon-based group will get about 1,000 each after profits more than doubled

Employees of Riverford will share in a payout of 1.3m after the organic vegetable box company more than doubled profits last year.

More than 1,000 staff at the Devon-based group, which began making deliveries from an old Citroen in 1993, will receive about 1,000 each as the employee-owned company nearly tripled its annual payout to workers.