Run by Works Management magazine and Cranfield School of Management, the Best Factory Awards are designed to ensure that best practice is shared amongst UK manufacturers and are given for manufacturing excellence in 14 categories.

Vitacress won the Regional Award for the South & East, Best Household & General Products Plant, Best Factory Award for Supply Chain and the overall top The Zurich Factory of the Year Award.

“Our business demonstrates supply chain, innovation, training, safety and environmental processes along with a level of passion, commitment and dedication which the judges found to exceed all the other companies entered for the awards,” said Vitacress operations director Mike Rushworth. “We have already said that in order to compete in European food markets Vitacress has to be the best. I think that this award tells us that if we continue to improve, working hard and intelligently, we can become truly outstanding. So the next step for us as a team is to set our own, new standard, which is significantly more challenging…and to work toward the goal of being world class.”