Top butcher Edwards of Conwy has just clinched a deal that will put their award-winning bangers on the shelves of over 500 Co-op stores across England and Wales.

Their popular six-pack sausages will now be on sale at Co-op supermarkets across the Midlands and North West of England, as well as in 130 stores in Wales and the border counties.

Edwards of Conwy have invested 拢2.6 million in a newly expanded production facility on the Morfa Conwy Business Park, in Conwy, which will soon be producing an extra 14,000 sausages a week to cope with the increased demand.

Managing director Simon James said: 鈥淥ur ability to respond to increased demand during the pandemic means more customers have been able to try our sausages and other products for the first time, and the response has been fantastic.

鈥淲e have a really good relationship with the Co-op and I think they like the fact that we鈥檙e a smaller company and we鈥檙e able to respond more quickly than some much bigger suppliers.

鈥淭his is a major move for us and means we鈥檒l be in three times as many Co-op stores鈥

Edwards of Conwy chairman Ieuan Edwards, who founded the business in Conwy High Street in 1984, said: 鈥淲e have been working with the Co-op since 2015 and they鈥檙e a very good fit for us because their ethos is the same as our own.

鈥淲e are a community-based business and share the same values while they also have a lot of stores in smaller communities where their customers are more likely to be attracted to something that is clearly a local product.

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鈥淚t鈥檚 good news for our suppliers too and it means we are selling more of what we do really well.鈥

They are made with pork shoulder, a more premium cut, and are Red Tractor assured - the largest food assurance scheme in the 海角视频 with high standards on animal welfare, food safety, traceability and environmental protection.

Their dedicated team of butchers currently make 40 million sausages a year.