Founded in 2019, we make innovative and award-winning condiments. This page will tell you a little more about who we are and how it all started.
Meet the team
From 2019-2023 it was just founders Kier & Jen running everything, starting in their one bedroom flat in South London, but now there's an awesome, growing team based at the company's HQ at Revenge Road, Chatham 🤘
This is Team Condimaniac:
Kier Kemp
Co-Founder
Accidentally started a food business because he couldn't have a meal without condiments.
Obsessed with: Pubs on rivers, lasagne, Epic Fantasy
Jennifer Dreier
Co-Founder
Was dragged into starting a food business by Kier. Originally from Northern Germany.
Obsessed with: Food, creepy Victorian antiques, her dog Tate
Imogen Bird
Operations Manager
Enjoys Embroidery and Mosh pits (not at the same time).
Obsessed with: Gigs, Laksa, Doctor Who
Connor Pooley
Production Coordinator
Has tried over 1000 different craft beers.
Obsessed with: Doctor Who, history and his dog Rey
Summer Angel
Warehouse Coordinator
Loves animals, dislikes people.
Obsessed with: Cars, cats & clowns
Linda Nguyen
Business Development Manager
Played the violin in front of Cherie Blair.
Obsessed with: Dogs, noodles and thrifting!
Keenan McQueen
Production Assistant
His middle name is Vinal (for Vinyl record) spelt with A as his dad was a DJ.
Obsessed with: Pizza, music & psychological thrillers
Jess Stephens
Warehouse Assistant
She's skydived twice and can’t survive 3 months without a trip/holiday.
Obsessed with: Abba, anywhere near the water, and a good cup of tea
Tef Mechedou
Warehouse Assistant
Always starts the wordle with the word hello.
Obsessed with: Sunshine, cats and matcha
Isaac Joyce
Production Manager
He was a finalist for BCF young chef of the year 2014.
Obsessed with: Bold flavours, outdoor adventures, garden dirt and the odd DIY project
Angela Owen
Media Strategist
Was so traumatised by the ending of 'The Fox and The Hound' as a child that she wrote a letter asking Disney to remake it.
Obsessed with: Cheese, pretty much all Asian food, beaches, 80s glam metal & Lady Gaga
Katie Groves
Warehouse Assistant
Ran a Taylor Swift themed festival.
Obsessed with: Netball, tea and bad reality TV
We vow to earn condiments the respect they deserve by revolutionsing the market.
We had a silly idea...
Inception
Originally Condimaniac was just an Instagram account that reviewed condiments. We grew quite a following in a short span of time and brands started sending us their sauces to review and we thought 'Maybe we could do this...'
Late that year we made the first ever batch of Smokey Dragon in our one bedroom flat in Honor Oak Park, South London.
We decided it would be a company
Founding
People actually started buying our products and in June that year it felt sensible to register a company, just in case.
Condimaniac Limited was officially legit.
2019 also saw us getting married and moving out of London to Kent. We now ran Condimaniac out of our Victorian two-up two-down terrace.
We found our first unit
Leaving home
Covid hit and at first we thought this might be the end of our little condiments company but to our surprise, sales picked up.
By summer our little galley kitchen was struggling to put out the volumes of sauce we needed to make.
We took a leap of faith and started leasing a small unit in business centre owned by the council.
We had to completely gut it to build our new production kitchen, but once done, Condimaniac was officially based at Hopewell Business Centre, Chatham.
We hired someone
Employees
After a tricky 2022, we managed to secure a loan from Kent County Council in 2023 which gave us the security to be able to hire our very first employee Imogen, who's now our Operations Manager.
We've been lucky to grow in numbers ever since, but we'll never forget that first leap that changed us from just this thing we were doing to a 'proper business'.
We moved and made some ketchup
Expansion
We'd long outgrown out two units at Hopewell Business Centre so in 2025 we moved to a snazzy, much bigger unit at Revenge Road, Chatham that we had fitted out to our specifications and customised with a mural by Luke at Soft Shock Design.
We saw through a TikTok video that Jeremy Clarkson didn't serve ketchup at his pub because a 100% British one didn't exist. We took it as a challenge and documented us trying to change that.
Apparently a few people saw that.