Entrepreneur celebrates success at Wiltshire Business Awards

Hadi Brooks, owner of Swindon based Rays Ice Cream, and its ice cream-making sister company Rays Manufacturing Ltd is celebrating coming second in the start-up category of The Wiltshire Business Awards 2019.

Rays Manufacturing Ltd was established in 2017 when Hadi decided to expand her premium ice cream business by moving the ice cream making from the back of their shop to its own purpose-built kitchen. As well as serving Rays Ice Cream’s own shops in Old Town, Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett and their events business, Rays Manufacturing Ltd now also sells the ice cream wholesale to other businesses. Customers include local foodie pubs, hotels and dessert shops.

‘With the move to the new premises came greater capacity both for making and for storing ice cream’ Hadi Brooks, business owner said. ‘The natural next step seemed to be to approach local quality food businesses to see if they wanted to include Rays Home Made Ice Cream as part of their food offer.’

The Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards are the most prestigious business awards in the county and Hadi said she was absolutely thrilled, and very surprised, to have been listed as a finalist in both the Best Start-Up and Overall Excellence categories. ‘Being a finalist was an absolute honour, so coming second in the Start-Up category was the icing on the cake.’

For more information about buying Rays Ice Cream for your business please contact Hadi at [email protected]