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Online British food shop scoops Queen’s award
Iron Acton-based British Corner Shop has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade for its significant growth over the past three years. The award is presented to UK businesses that have performed well in terms of raw exports, and business practice.
The online supermarket established in 1999 to supply British brands to the expat community around the world, selling both direct to customers complete with competitive shipping costs, and to retailers with a B2B wholesale service. The company now delivers to 138 countries with a strong customer base in Italy, Spain, Germany, the US and China, countries that they say have both well-established expat communities and ‘domestic markets with a taste for British brands’.
Technical director Peter Howarth said: “We are delighted that British Corner Shop has received the Queens Award for Enterprise. To receive such a prestigious award is a real testament to the hard work that the whole team have put in over the last decade, delivering a fantastic and unique service that British expats around the world have come to rely upon. “
The team attribute their award to strategic policies that have allowed them to increase overall turnover by 112 per cent in the last three years while adding little to overheads. An efficient supply chain, fully integrated e-commerce infrastructure and leading technology are cited as key to the company’s success.
Based on current estimates that there are in excess of 5 million British expats, British Corner Shop estimates its 150,000 customers equates to a 3-4 per cent market penetration and is intending to double market share within the next two years.
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