Pet foods chief tells of pride over royal award

A PET meals business has been handed a coveted award for international growth and export boom.

TastyBone, in response to the Whitebirk industrial property in Blackburn, is the united kingdom's accurate company of nylon chews, a part of Pets option, it turned into awarded the Queen's Award for enterprise previous this 12 months.

And this week, chief govt Tony Raeburn bought the accolade from the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Lord Shuttleworth.

Lord Shuttleworth was treated to a tour of the Pets alternative premises with the Deputy Mayor of Blackburn, Cllr Pat McFall.

Accepting the award, Mr Raeburn said: "it is a superb honour that our enterprise has been presented the Queen's business Award for overseas alternate.

"Pets choice has grown vastly during the past 4 years and we are actually probably the most quickest-becoming pet meals organizations within the UK.

"All this could not have been kept away from the dedicated crew at Pets choice and that i am so pleased with everybody inside our enterprise."

Mr Raeburn pointed out the brand enjoyed speedy increase because of enjoyable items, the stamp of UK manufacturing and a good crew behind the scenes.

Recalling meeting the Queen at a reception at Buckingham Palace returned in July, he introduced: "I arranged for samples of our Royal ceremonial dinner-flavoured TastyBone products to be despatched for every of the corgis, namely Vulcan, Willow and sweet.

"I obtained a wonderful letter returned from the master of the family unit saying the corgis can be having fun with their treats at Balmoral."

TastyBone became amongst one hundred fifty enterprises to be acknowledged for business and company, having exported its latitude of nylon TastyBones to 29 nations everywhere.

The items are manufactured in the UK from a hundred per cent virgin nylon and come in eleven shapes and 33 flavours, together with roast pork, wine and peanut butter.

earlier this year, Pets choice changed into also passed a crimson Rose Award for manufacturing.

A TastyBone spokesman spoke of: "Our purpose is to prepared the ground into the subsequent generation of pet items by using developing new and imaginative top rate products which are basically flavoursome, promote respectable oral hygiene and are most of all enjoyable.

"We're in a fine position to bear in mind and form the way forward for the pet products market."