Saluting our flag-flyers

Lancashire businesses of all types and sizes are already hard at work, selling their goods and skills across the globe, opening up new markets and expanding existing ones.

In this second part of our overseas trade special (read the first part here) we highlight more of our Lancashire Export Champions.

Singleton’s Dairy

Recipes created by founder Duillia Singleton in the 1920s and 30s are still used for some of the Longridge firm’s range of more than 30 cheeses. Many are marketed under the firm’s Grandma Singleton’s brand, which was developed in her honour.

AM Seafoods

The second generation family run business sells brown crab, king scallops, queen scallops and whelks, as well as handling the trawlers used to catch them. Operations include Kildavanan, B&M Fishing, WM Shellfish, Arctic Harvest and Fleur de France Fisheries.

Jonesco

It supplies polyethylene mudguards to the commercial and leisure vehicle markets and has sold more than nine million since it was founded in 1967. Jonesco also makes products for the fire and safety market and containment pallets.

Preston-based Jonesco’s 165 staff work three shifts, five and a half days a week to ensure prompt and efficient supply to locations around the world.

Sovereign Beverage Company

Sovereign Beverage’s clients include Greene King, Marstons, Robinsons, Timothy Taylor and Innis & Gunn, as well as Blackburn brewer Thwaites.

Chemist 4 U

Chemist 4 U earned 47th place on the table on the back of particularly strong demand for its services in Germany and Denmark. Managing director Shamir Patel took the Skelmersdale-based pharmacy online in 2011. Now its 48 staff sends out around 16,000 parcels on a daily basis – from prescriptions and vitamin tablets to treatments for hair loss and bad breath.