H. Forman and Son


H. Forman & Son is a salmon smokery located in Fish Island, London, England run by Conservative MEP, Lance Forman.

London cure

Forman and Sons produces so-called "London cure" smoked salmon, which is protected under the EU Protected Geographical Indication scheme. The application for protected status was submitted by Lance Forman and was supported by then Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who opened the factory in 2009. It is the first London-based food to obtain this EU protected status.
The London Cure salmon has featured on the menus of the dining rooms in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons and has also been sold in Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason.

Public relations

Following a lengthy dispute, the site of the business was relocated in 2007 from the area which is now the London Olympic Park as part a compulsory purchase order by the London Development Agency involving more than 200 companies for the London 2012 Olympics. The cost of relocation to its current premises - a building shaped like a piece of salmon, with a roof resembling salmon skin - was shared between the company and the LDA.
The business faced threats of a local boycott in the wake of Lance Forman's election as a London MEP for the Brexit Party, a group which won only 6% of votes locally in the May 2019 European Parliament elections. Police investigations were opened in the run-up to the elections after a 10-metre swastika was spray-painted on the side of the business in a suspected anti-semitic attack. Forman has claimed that he does not believe his business was targeted due to his Jewish heritage but rather because he supports Brexit.
In November 2019, the business was publicly criticised by the mayors of Tower Hamlets and Hackney for hosting a public meeting of Turning Point UK, the British branch of Turning Point USA, a controversial, right-wing, pro-Trump organisation. Lance Forman, owner of the business, who was also on a panel at the meeting, defended the decision saying he was in favour of free speech.