Three is the magic number for North Yorkshire microbrewery and events business
A Yorkshire Coast microbrewery with an events offshoot business could be in line for triple victory in the inaugural Scarborough Business Awards after receiving nominations in three separate categories.
It is the first time that two Hunmanby based businesses, Wold Top Brewery and Muddy Souls Events, have been shortlisted in the same competition.
Wold Top Brewery has been named as a finalist in the category of Export Achievement of the Year and Green Business of the Year whilst Muddy Souls Events have reached the shortlist for the New Business category.
Gill Mellor, director of the award-winning brewery and events company, said: "It is a wonderful surprise for one business to be nominated, let alone both in one competition.
"Muddy Souls Events is our newest business so we are proud to be recognised in the New Business category and being in the running for a further two categories with the brewery is fabulous news."
Wold Top Brewery has developed its customer base internationally in the last 18 months through supplying demand from Europe and further afield in Italy, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Falkland Islands, Ireland and Canada.
Muddy Souls Event was launched in 2013 as an additional branch of the family-run brewery to make the most of the business' Wolds location and Hunmanby Grange's gardens.
Guests will gather at the Scarborough Spa on Friday November 21 to celebrate the best of business in Scarborough in the very first Business Awards hosted by The Scarborough News and its sister newspapers at Whitby and Ryedale, sponsored by Senior Glass Systems. The awards will be presented by BBC Look North's Clare Frisby.
Invited dignitaries include MP Robert Goodwill and newly-appointed Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and businessman Barry Dodd CBE.
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Notes to editors
Wold Top Brewery was founded in 2003 out of a need to diversify from farming. For more information about the brewery, please visitwww.woldtopbrewery.co.uk. In 2003 production was 100 gallons per week with no paid staff and in 2013, production was up to 4300 gallons with a paid staff of 15
The brewery's unique selling points include home grown barley and the farm's own source of chalk filtered water.
Wold Top Brewery's cask and bottled ales can be found in pubs, independent, family owned retailers, farm shops, delis, hotels, and off licences throughout Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and online. Please call the brewery on 01723 892222 for an up-to-date list.
The range includes Wold Top Beer, Wold Gold blonde beer, Headland Red, Anglers Reward, Scarborough Fair IPA and Wold Top Against the Grain and Scarborough Fair gluten free beer.
Muddy Souls Events provides a unique wedding and events venue based at Hunmanby Grange, the home of Wold Top Brewery and the Mellor family. It was launched in 2013 and hosts open days in aid of charity and wedding fayres. For more information, please visithttp://www.muddysoulsevents.co.uk/.
Readers and members of the business community are encouraged to nominate businesses online at http://www.jpeventsnorth.co.uk/scarborough/events/scarborough-business-awards-2014/index.php.