About E.C. Drummond & Son
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Background
The business was founded in 1956 when Eric
Drummond senior, who had previously farmed in Scotland, came to The Homme in
Ross-on-Wye with its 90 hectare's of traditional land and started culitivating
potatoes, cereal crops and blackcurrants and rearing sheep and cattle.
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Present day
Eric Drummond's son, also named Eric, worked
alongside his father in developing the business until 1979 when he took up the
reins as head of the partnership following his fathers untimely death. Over the
past 27 years Eric has transformed the partnership
into a diverse agricultural, services and transport business with an annual turnover
in excess of £15 million.
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Protecting our countryside
The countryside in which the various divisions of E.C. Drummond & Son farm
and operate is important to Eric and his family,
especially Homme farm in Ross-on-Wye which is also
the Drummond family's home. The family is sensitive to the impact that the partnership's
operations have on the surrounding landscape and are therefore passionate about
rural conservation, environmental and wildlife protection
issues which play a major part in the company's strategic and tactical business
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The business. Its a family
thing
E C Drummond & Son is at its heart, and always has been, a family business
run as a partnership between Eric and his wife
Sanna. Their eldest son Ben joined the business
in 2004. Today, Eric and Ben manage
and oversee the partnership's day to day operations and, together with a dedicated management
team, continue to take the business from strength to strength.
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Group photograph of ECD team
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