‘Salad Days’ for Yorkshire Business
East Yorkshire firm Living Salads has scooped the award for Salad Grower of The Year at the prestigious Grower of the Year awards. Some 500 professionals from across UK production horticulture attended the event held at London’s Lancaster Hotel which was hosted by TV’s Paul Ross. Speakers included NFU president Peter Kendall and Horticulture Week editor Kate Lowe.
The company beat off stiff competition from farmers and growers across Britain to win the top award, which celebrates excellence in growing. Living Salads impressed the judges by demonstrating excellence in innovation, customer satisfaction, and product quality.
Managing Director Andrew Johnson said, Winning the Grower of the Year awards is a brilliant recognition of the achievements of Living Salads. We started the business just 5 years ago (check) in a garden shed with the remains of my redundancy money. I never dreamt that the business would take off as it has. I always maintain that as long as your product focus is on quality, success will follow.
The idea was that the salad would be growing in its tray right until the moment the customer cut it and put it on to their plate. It gave people field fresh leaves in their home, so I knew we were on to something. Weve expanded our growing capacity steadily over the years and are on track to continue to supply fresh living leaves to salad lovers across Britain.
Living Salads are now listed nationwide in most major supermarkets and the business is branching out to supplying the catering and restaurant trades.