Jeremy Clarkson’s brewery is the fastest-growing private business in the South West, have revealed.
Gloucestershire’s Hawkstone brewery topped the South West rankings in the paper’s latest annual ranking of Britain’s fastest-growing private businesses.
The Sunday Times says the brewery has nearly tripled sales to £21.3 million in the year to March, and has reported 134% average annual growth in the last three years.
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Clarkson announced in 2021 "I did a beer" to launch the Hawkstone brand. During filming of his TV show Clarkson’s Farm, set at his Diddly Squat Farm in Gloucestershire, he decided to use his own spring barley to make his own beer.
Hawkstone, led by managing director Owen Jenkins, 44, has since launched in Waitrose and is served in more than 1,500 海角视频 pubs – including Clarkson’s own pub, The Farmer’s Dog. Clarkson is its largest shareholder.
The Sunday Times 100 and available as a supplement with the print edition of the newspaper this Sunday (June 29). It is sponsored by Barclays Private Bank and supported by S&W, the professional services firm, Oracle NetSuite and Singer Capital Markets.
The South West also boasts the oldest company on the list in Cornwall’s St Ewe Free Range Eggs, which is second in the South West rankings and 53rd nationally. The company – founded in 1967 by Richard and Christine Tonks and now led by their daughter, Rebecca – has contracts with 50 family farms around the 海角视频.
Jon Yeomans, business editor of The Sunday Times, said the Sunday Times 100 “demonstrates the remarkable entrepreneurial spirit thriving across Britain”. He added: “It’s inspiring to see how these businesses are not only achieving phenomenal growth, but also creating thousands of new jobs and opportunities."
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