GA Pet Food Partners, a private label pet food manufacturer based in Chorley, Lancashire, has won both the Family Business Award and Export Award at the 13th Annual Red Rose Awards that took place at the Blackpool Winter Gardens, with over 1000 business professionals in attendance.

Lancashire Business View’s Red Rose Awards is the event where Lancashire business, commerce and industry are celebrated. It provides the best possible platforms to promote success and encourage trading within the county.

Businesses from the length and breadth of the county vied for titles across a range of categories, with only the best of the best, as selected by a panel of expert judges, progressing through to the shortlist and a rigorous interview stage before being rewarded for their excellence.

Both the Family Business Award and Export Award, had six finalists competing respectively to win the titles. The specially crafted awards were presented by Paul Hardy for the Family Business Award and Helen Clayton for the Export Award. Both hosts were delighted to announce GA as the winner. 

When presenting the Family Business Award, Paul said: “GA is a fantastic family business, run with military precision, which is incredible at adopting a family ethos. A family charter is used and ingrained within the organisation, and initiatives, including a hardship fund for employees, demonstrates the family feel.” 

Helen said when presenting the Export Award: “We were blown away by the GA story, the passion, the drive and the strategic direction of the business. The ethos of being a team, driving quality from Lancashire and taking it to international environments. Enormously impressive export credentials with a considered, well-resourced and strategic approach.”

GA is a family-owned private label pet food busines that create recipes using the finest raw materials sourced from farms and fisheries they know and trust. Their partners are traditional pet shops and corporate brands that use these recipes to create their own pet food brand.  

GA has enjoyed significant growth in both sales (up 20 per cent) and profit. They have continued to invest in European expansion with nine wholly owned European subsidiaries exporting over 50 per cent of net sales. 

GA has sought to continue investing in the ‘GA Family’ with a dedicated career development team, they also celebrate individual success with company-wide voting for a colleague of the quarter award.

Roger Bracewell, Chairman of GA Pet Food Partners, said: “The whole of the GA Family are delighted and honoured to receive both awards. The awards recognises the hard work and dedication of all at GA from a small family farm 30 years ago to a £140 million turnover company, 44% of which is exported.”