New factory for soft drinks firm keeps expansion on schedule
SOFT DRINKS entrepreneur Andrew Cawthray has completed the latest phase of his £45m expansion plan at Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire.
The multi-millionaire businessman has finished the second factory for his rapidly-expanding soft drinks firm Cawingredients.
The new 95,000 sq ft facility has been designed as a productmixing operation and a warehouse. It is next to the main Cawingredients factory, built in 2010.
The three-year expansion plan promises to create more than 100 jobs and boost production and warehouse facility at the site.
Sutcliffe Construction built both factories and turned around the second in a 10-month period from request for proposal to completion.
James Sutcliffe, managing director, said: “The biggest challenge in this project was the time frame. Cawingredients was keen to proceed with its expansion plans so design work that would normally take months for a project of this size and quality was done in weeks.”
He has added eight new employees to his £7m-turnover business over the last 18 months. Headcount is now 25.
Cawingredients, set up in 2010, occupies a 26-acre site and provides a range of manufacturing, bottling, packaging and product development and other advisory services to major drinks manufacturers. It had a turnover of £44.5m in 2013.
Mr Cawthray, chairman and chief executive, declined to be interviewed by The Yorkshire Post.
Cawingredients is his re-entry into the soft drinks category having sold his firm Macaw Soft drinks to Canada’s Cott Corporation in 2005 for £76m.
He is said to have made more than £45m from the deal.