Food manufacture excellence awards
2002: Lightbody Celebration Cakes
Lightbody picked up the second ever Company of the Year award following seven years of sales growth since md Martin Lightbody closed 20 retail bakeries and six celebration cake shops in the west of Scotland and plunged the proceeds into a new factory.
In 2002 the company’s turnover was £24M, it employed 600 people and was the market leader in novelty and licensed character cakes, selling to every major retailer.
In 2007, the firm joined the Finsbury Foods Group.