Me and My Factory: Hilltop Honey

Born from a beekeeping pastime in 2011, Davies began Hilltop from his dad and mom’ kitchen desk and has grown to be the second-largest honey model within the UK.

“I feel from inception, the best way I began Hilltop was a complete new method of taking a look at honey to what it was within the market – I discovered bees attention-grabbing and tried to deliver that to life with shoppers,” stated Davies.

“We go honey looking all around the world looking for the perfect suppliers, the perfect tasting honey whereas assembly and aligning with our B Corp ethics. I feel typically Hilltop is exclusive within the sense of its means to seek out good honey.”

From the bottom up

Ranging from the bottom up, Davies has been concerned in each a part of the enterprise and nonetheless performs an lively a part of the producer’s everyday operations. He even makes time to go to the beehives that the corporate nonetheless retains close by – tended to by his father in his retirement.

“I attempt to lead from the entrance, so I bootstrapped Hilltop from the very starting. I’ve walked just about each mile in each shoe by the enterprise,” Davies added. “I feel that helps encourage individuals, that I do perceive their place in each a part of this enterprise.

“I work tremendous onerous in order that they [the team] can see me working onerous. I’m not right here, there and in every single place gallivanting whereas everyone seems to be working actually onerous – I lead from the entrance in that sense, attempt to hold them motivated by making it moderately enjoyable.”

B Corp

Davies takes his enterprise’s B Corp standing very severely. In his eyes, working the corporate ought to be a good deal for everybody – honest for the suppliers, honest to the workforce and honest for the area people.

“And for our prospects,” he concluded. “So, I feel I feel that’s typically how I attempt to instil morale, at the least.”

To listen to the entire story of Davies’ dive into the world of honey, how he runs his enterprise and the folks that have impressed him all through his profession, hearken to our unique podcast the place he instructed us ‘it was the honey or the bees’.

In the meantime, take a tour round Condimentum’s Norwich website, the house of Colman’s mustard powder, within the earlier episode of Me and My Manufacturing facility.