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Bright Blue Foods, Blackburn Bright Blue Foods is a leading manufacturer of ambient cakes and other baked goods and supplies to the UK’s major supermarkets and other retail giants. The portfolio of products offered by the group is broad and ranges from value items to top tier products. The business continues to be the largest manufacturer of own labelled packaged cake in the UK and employs more than 1,300 people.
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Rowland Group, Leyland Formed in 1993, Rowland Group delivers residential building projects across the North West from its Leyland headquarters. In Lancashire it has developments in Bispham, Carnforth, Clayton- le-Woods, Euxton, Farington, Lytham St Annes and Preston. Its latest accounts reveal it made charitable donations amounting to £227,505.
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Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, Inglewhite
The business began artisanal cheese-making in rural Lancashire in 1932 and now trades as Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses from Wilson Fields Farm in Inglewhite. The fourth-generation family business produces traditional and creative farmhouse cheeses – including Blacksticks Blue – sourcing milk from its own and local farms. It was hit by a major fire at its premises in Longridge in November 2023. Latest accounts show it is making an ongoing recovery since the blaze.
Perch Holdco, Blackpool Perch Holdco is one of the UK’s fastest growing full-service debt collection and credit management groups, using data and technology to help customers resolve debts. Since launching in 2016 it has supported more than 1.9 million customer debts. It is based on the Whitehills Business Park and employs almost 250.
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James Hall and Co, Preston James Hall and Co, which can trace its history back to 1863, is a family-run SPAR wholesaler and retailer based in Preston. It serves more than 450 SPAR stores across the North of England and also owns Clayton Park Bakery, The Great Northern Sandwich Company, Fazilas ethnic foods, and G&E Murgatroyd convenience stores, as well as farm-to-pot yoghurt specialist Ann Forshaw’s. It has a workforce of more than 4,000.
14 The Kay Group, Blackburn
This family-owned petrol retail and service station operator has been based in Blackburn since 1972, and has more than 20 sites across the North West and around 350 staff serving 300,000 weekly customers. The business partners with BP, Shell, and Texaco while in-store brands include Londis, Greggs, Subway, Costa, and Costa Express. Its Intack Self Drive business is Blackburn’s largest vehicle rental company.
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WB Handling, Blackpool WB Handling is based at Olympic Court on Whitehills Business Park and has been operating since January 2021. It is a commission-based wholesale agent and acts as an intermediary in the sale and purchase of a wide range of goods. Its latest turnover was at £128.7m and the business employs more than 40.
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3 Places for People Group 4 Northern Trust 5 Monte Blackburn 6 Leyland Trucks
7 Chubb Fire and Security 8 Safran Nacelles 9 Victrex
10 CLdN RoRo Holding 11 Chesnara 12 Vintrex
13 WB Handling 14 The Kay Group
15 James Hall and Co 16 Perch Holdco 17 Rowland Group
18 Butlers Farmhouse Cheese 19 Bright Blue Foods 20 Silicone Engineering
Location Blackburn Blackburn
Bamber Bridge Chorley
Blackburn Leyland
Blackburn Burnley
Thornton-Cleveleys Morecambe Preston Darwen
Blackpool Blackburn Preston
Blackpool Leyland Preston
Blackburn Blackburn
Activity
Heating control manufacturing Fuel retail operations
Housing community development Property investment development Property development projects Truck manufacturing engineering Fire safety specialists
Aerospace component manufacturing Polymer material manufacturing Freight shipping logistics Life insurance provider
Vaping product distribution Wholesale trade intermediary Petrol forecourt retail
Grocery wholesale distribution Credit management group
Residential construction services Artisan cheese production Cake dessert manufacturing Silicone rubber specialists
Pre-tax profit 330,400,000 212,260,000 84,000,000 77,177,000 60,250,884 28,605,000 27,135,000 23,421,000 23,400,000 21,938,440 20,800,000 20,099,224 20,044,196 18,022,004 17,583,000 17,005,224 14,477,987 13,915,000 13,677,000 12,444,791
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