Ice cream manufacturer shortlisted for national award

A North Yorkshire real dairy ice cream manufacturer is celebrating after being short-listed in a national food excellence competition.

Yorvale is one of one of only four food businesses to reach the final of the Food Manufacture Excellence Award for the best Small Business of the Year.
The news comes just weeks after the company won the Farmers Guardian Best Farm Entrepreneur award.
The awards honour the best food and drink manufacturing companies and Yorvale reached the final by impressing the judges across a range of criteria including category and supply chain management, new product development, health, safety and environmental management and marketing.
Yorvale is competing against London based Alara Wholefoods, Devon based hand fried crisps manufacturer Burts and last year’s winner, Mash Direct from Northern Ireland.
Yorvale’s owners Ian and Lesley Buxton (pictured left) will have to wait until an awards dinner at London’s Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel on November 11 to find out whether they will add another prestigious national award to their expanding trophy cabinet.