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providing durable PPE wear and specialist abattoir equipment to offering a unique knife sharpening service. It employs 75.
97 2024: 66 Cavalier Carpets, Blackburn 100 2024: 76 Trevors Foodservice, Blackpool
Trevors launched in 1962 as a food delivery service for local hoteliers, cafes and B&Bs around Blackpool. Today it offers 3,000 products including frozen, ambient, chilled and fresh produce and its customers now also span healthcare, education, leisure and workplace.
Cavalier Carpets has been producing carpets since 1972 and is a leading manufacturer operating in both commercial and residential markets. Its products have been used around the world in palaces, embassies, hotels, restaurants, ocean liners, banks, department stores and casinos, as well as millions of homeowners throughout Great Britain. Today the business employs 169.
out-of-town retailers across the UK. Its ranges include trainers, workwear and cushioned soles.
94 New entry NCO Europe, Preston
NCO offers outsourced customer care, specialising in handling debt repayment. The company completed a buyout from its American owners in 2019 and today employs 490 staff in its Preston city centre premises. The company has continued to build growth amongst existing clients and delivered a pre-tax profit of almost £1.4m.
93 2024: 87
Stirling Moulded Composites, Blackburn
96 99 New entry
Althams Catering Butchers, Morecambe
Althams Butchers is one of the oldest and largest independent family owned and run butchers in the country, tracing its roots back to 1856 when Thomas Altham opened his first shop. More than 160 years later, brothers Rick and James sit at the helm, representing the fifth generation of Altham family control. Today, the business serves wholesale, hotels, restaurants, football clubs, pub chains, conferencing venues and catering companies.
98 New entry Cutting Edge Services, Chorley
Cutting Edge Services is a family run, market leading supplier of food processing machinery and consumables in the UK. Since being founded in 1992, it has created strong working relationships with renowned manufacturers and suppliers across the UK and Ireland. It offers every stage of food processing, from
Totals 2025 Revenues
Pre-tax profit Employees
£1,992,383,854 £255,173,072 9,635
2024
£1,978,708,104 £235,559,484 9,056
Change
Up 1.01% Up 1.08% Up 1.06%
Ewood Foods, Accrington
Ewood Foods is a wholesaler delivering a range of food products to the NHS, the education sector and the catering industry. With almost 50 years’ experience, the business has gone from strength to strength. It operates out of a purpose-built head office and distribution facility in Accrington.
New entry
Abbeydale Food Group, Bamber Bridge
The Abbeydale group contains Summit Foods and, until its disposal part way through this trading year, Saxon Quality Foods. The companies produce chilled and frozen foods under brands such as Snacksters, all sold through grocery and convenience stores.
Stirling Moulded Composites and its team of 61 manufactures specialist moulded products. The company invests heavily in R&D and holds considerable IP in its industry. It had total sales of £7.1m and it employs 65.
92 New entry Carvansons, Haslingden 95 2024: 72
Lyndhurst Shoe Company, Rawtenstall
LSC began life in 1985 as a footwear supplier, located in the Rossendale Valley, historically famous for its textile and footwear manufacture. Today it designs shoes manufactured in the Far East and supplied to high street and
Founded in 1941, Carvansons is a fourth- generation family-owned fragrance and perfume manufacturer. Its products are used globally in the cosmetic, personal care, household and industrial manufacturing sectors. The business moved to a new purpose-built site in Haslingden in 2022 which boasts state-of-the-art labs, perfume sampling and smelling zones.
91 New entry
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