Dandy's Topsoil Shortlisted For High Sheriff's Award For Enterprise
Dandy's Topsoil, Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier are extremley proud to of been shortlisted for the High Sheriff's Award For Enterprise. Chester based Dandy's Topsoil have reached the shortlisted few for the High Sheriff's Award for Enterprise which represents the highest value of any competition of its kind in the region.
The award is sponsored by the following companies and organisations: Barclays Bank, Business Link North West, Cheshire County Council, Cheshire & Warrington Economic Alliance, Halton Borough Council, Northwest Development Agency, Warrington Borough Council and the University of Chester.
As well as being officially recognised as a leader in business and management development in the region, winners will be awarded the following:
1st Prize – FREE place on the MBA programme at the Chester Business School at the University of Chester. 2nd Prize - £4,000 cash prize 3rd Prize – £2,000 cash prize Dandy's Topsoil was shortlisted for the award on the back of the Company's market leading performance, by investing in new enterprises which include the purchase of a bio-diesel production plant in order to convert local waste cooking oil from local Chester restaurants into diesel to power it's delivery vehicles with.
Also the recycling of thousands of tonnes of local household green waste which was diverted from landfill and composted into an organic Soil Association approved Compost which is sold by Dandy's online and delivered to it's customers nationwide.
Finally by creating a market leading website, ranked number one on google for 'topsoil' and by doing so doubling the size of the business within the past five years.
Dandy's Topsoil Owner Adam Dandy said "We are so proud to have been shortlisted for such a prestigous award, we are constantly improving our business to remain market leaders, what started off by growing and selling fruit and vegetables grown in Chester's rich topsoil in the early 1800's has turned full circle and it is the City's high quality topsoil which once again provides us and those who work at Dandys with an income over a centuary and a half later. However in order to stay one step ahead of the competition we are constantly improving what we do and embrasing new technology and ideas.
Our biggest enterprise over the past 12 months was the purchase and commisioning of our bio-diesel production plant which recycles waste cooking oil from local Chester resturants into high quality diesel to power our delivery fleet on. This was done for two reasons, firstly to reduce the company's overheads but secondly and more importantly to reduce our carbon footprint and to become the first topsoil supplier to be carbon neutral.
to be shortlisted for such an award is an acolade to the hard work and dedication of my team here at Dandy's Topsoil, for which i thank them all".
