He’s jokingly described as the butcher’s lad beside the tech entrepreneur at the helm of Grimsby Town - but it was abacus not carcass that whet Andrew Pettit’s business appetite.
Today will see Pettits Lincolnshire Sausages sold at Blundell Park for the first time, a shrewd piece of promotion of the family favourite on Great Grimsby Day - but it represents a first foray into three previous generations’ work since counting up the takings at the sadly lost Bethlehem Street till many moons ago.
Now vice chairman of his beloved Mariners, he gave an insight into his journey from turnstile to boardroom, to a business audience in advance of the bangers’ debut.
