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Pollards Tea & Coffee
Winner Best Family Business
Special Prize Catagory: Philanthropy

Sheffield based coffee retailers Pollards Tea and Coffee won the special prize for Philanthropy, in the national final of the Coutts Prize for Family Business. Founded in 1879, when grocer Joseph Pollard started to roast his own coffee, the company has gone from strength to strength and is today renowned for holding the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest cappuccino.

Read article by John Ashworth

To read the press release please click here.