{"id":816905,"date":"2026-10-28T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816905\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:44:17","slug":"andy-murray-surprises-school-pupils-during-airdrie-hq-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816905\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray surprises school pupils during Airdrie HQ visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The former Wimbledon champion visited Albert Bartlett\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/airdrie\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Airdrie<\/a> base on Wednesday, October 28, where he was given a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Murray, who became an ambassador for the family-owned potato company last year, met staff from across the business and learned more about their roles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Andy Murray pictured with members of the Albert Bartlett team during his visit to the company\u2019s Airdrie headquarters. (Image: Albert Bartlett)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the visit, he also surprised a group of school pupils who were at the site on work experience.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking after the tour, Murray said: \u201cIt was great to meet some more of the team from different roles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/albertbartlett.co.uk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Albert Bartlett<\/a> business, and hear how many of them have been at the company for so long.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThey are all so passionate and knowledgeable about the products they help produce.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI really enjoyed the factory tour and couldn\u2019t believe how many potatoes they process each day!\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Airdrie visit formed part of a day of activity between Murray and Albert Bartlett, with the company teasing further activity involving the tennis star later in the afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Murray joined forces with Albert Bartlett as an ambassador in 2025, with the partnership focused on promoting good food, family mealtimes and the company\u2019s produce.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Andy Murray during his visit to Albert Bartlett\u2019s headquarters in Airdrie. (Image: Albert Bartlett)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has since been involved in a number of the brand\u2019s campaigns, including its Bring Out Your Best Side campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Albert Bartlett was founded in 1948 after Albert Bartlett relocated from Belfast to Glasgow to work in the shipyards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He later began boiling beetroot in a neighbour\u2019s garden shed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/airdrieandcoatbridgetoday?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coatbridge<\/a> to earn extra money for his family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The business has since grown into a fourth-generation family-owned company and is now headquartered in Airdrie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It produces fresh, chilled and frozen potato products and works with around 100 independent farmers across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Wimbledon champion visited Albert Bartlett\u2019s Airdrie base on Wednesday, October 28, where he was given a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}