The happy egg co. have received leading industry accolade ’The Good Egg Award’ from Compassion in World Farming. The accolade recognises the happy egg co.’s commitment to delivering high welfare standards for its hens across its farms. the happy egg co. goes above and beyond free range standards to provide its hens with wide outdoor spaces and apparatus and varied terrain.
Compassion’s Good Egg Award is now in its 5th year, and to date, over 205 million animals are benefit each year as a result of Good Awards Winners policies to date. This year, the ceremony congratulated organisations in four categories – the largest was The Good Egg Award.
Steve Horton, of the happy egg co. says "we are absolutely delighted to receive the good egg award from Compassion in World Farming. At the happy egg co. we are and will continue to be committed to the best possible standards of hen welfare and to have this recognised is a great honour. We have had a fantastic year with the brand growing over 85% in the last 12 months showing how consumers have bought into our approach but more importantly to the free range category as a whole which continues to go from strength to strength (up 9.7% year on year)."
Katy Read, Head of Food Business said: ’We’re delighted to see so many companies here this evening at our biggest ever UK awards event, demonstrating that higher welfare farming makes good business sense. Our winners are responsible for improving the lives of millions of farm animals in the UK."
