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Apr 2022
Bettys and Taylors win Queen's Award for Enterprise
Bettys and Taylors have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development.
The business, based in Harrogate, is best known for its Yorkshire Tea and Bettys tearooms has a global tea and coffee supply chain which works in partnership with more than one million farmers and workers in 22 countries.
The award recognised the company's work to integrate sustainability and collaboration with suppliers, partners, and the wider industry, to address social and environmental challenges within the industry.
Amongst these were projects in developing countries to install clean water systems; support tree planting partnerships; improve living and working conditions of workers, and to provide training to women in business management, entrepreneurial, literacy and financial skills.
Planting trees in Kenya Credit: Bettys and Taylors
Keith Writer, Supply Director at Taylors, said:
The Queen’s Awards are presented in four categories and are decided each year by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister and her panel of judges. The winners are announced on the Queen’s birthday, and are valid for five years.
B&T also received a Queen’s Award in 2001, 2007, and 2017 for its commitment to sustainability.
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