An entrepreneurial pie-making company which pivoted its business after lockdown to offer delivery has gone on to scoop a highly coveted food taste award. If it hadn't switched over to expanding to the home delivery arena, the business that was 'on a cliff edge' may not have survived.
Yorkshire Handmade Pies based in Ripon make traditional pies using founder James Sturdy's granddad's recipe. The company's clients, who were restaurants, pubs and eateries, decreased overnight when Covid-19 took the country into lockdown.
Left reeling with the shrinking of his core market, James was forced to act quickly by expanding into home-delivery. As reported by Yorkshire Live, James said: "We came up with the idea of launching a home delivery service, we got the brand name and launched the service in April 2020, just after the lockdown."
