HECK tops all Yorkshire businesses ranked in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100

HECK, the North Yorkshire family food firm, has been announced the fourth fastest growing private company in the UK and the top-ranked Yorkshire company in the annual Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100.

The company makes premium sausages, burgers and meatballs from its base in Bedale.

Published this weekend, the 20th anniversary edition of the Fast Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing sales.

HECK, which makes premium sausages, burgers and meatballs from its base in Bedale, is one of six Yorkshire companies to make the league table this year, all of which have been featured before.

The gourmet food company was founded by husband and wife team Andrew and Debbie Keeble and their children in 2013, and its products are now stocked in all of the major supermarkets. With a team of 70 staff, sales have grown 170% a year to £11.2m this year.

The firm is now on track to generate £18m turnover next year.

Products include pork sausages, square sausages for the BBQ, a lower fat chicken range, seasonal variants such as Christmas Baubles and new veggie and vegan sausages, balls and burgers.

Jamie Keeble, company co-founder, said: “We don’t try and make the same products as everyone else and this is what sets us apart from our competitors. We also listen to what our customers want and can be quick to bring new, innovative and healthier versions of favourite foods to the supermarket shelves.

“Our ranking in this year’s Fast Track is a feather in the cap for our whole team who are passionate about making good food and bringing it to as many people across the country as possible.”

2017 will see the opening of HECK’s new food factory on the site of the old family farm, featuring state of the art machinery capable of firing out 700 sausages in one minute.

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