Fifth-generation, family-owned luxury bedmaker and components manufacturer, Harrison Spinks, has earned a King’s Award for Sustainable Development, adding to its two current King’s Awards for Innovation and International Trade, and previously awarded Queen’s Awards, bringing the total number achieved by the business to eight.
The King’s Award win confirms the company's role as an industry pioneer in sustainability, having made significant strides to improve its production and CO2 emissions across the main bed business and within its component manufacturing division, as well as working to improve the local biodiversity in Yorkshire where both businesses are based.
The business has spearheaded responsible manufacturing through various initiatives and innovations since it began in 1840, including introducing a world-first pocket spring that is recyclable due to its glueless design, and made from wire that is drawn in-house.
It is also the only bedmaker to have its own farms to produce home-grown natural materials for use within its luxury mattress filling pads, and the only British bed manufacturer to create 95% (by weight) of its mattress components in-house – including its fire-retardant chemical-free mattress fabric, which is woven in Yorkshire.
The news follows the release of the bedmaker’s Impact Report, which outlines a host of sustainability focused initiatives, including plans to become Nature Net Positive across all operations and decrease carbon emissions from direct operations
by -95% within 10 years, with the company’s components division already introducing new manufacturing technology to reduce energy consumption by -60% as well as decreasing raw material usage.
Chairman Simon Spinks says: “Receiving the King’s Award for Sustainable Development is a tremendous honour, especially after previously holding a Queen’s Award in this category, and it reflects the unwavering dedication of our whole team’s
efforts to be the UK’s most responsible bedmaker.
“As a proud British manufacturer, this award win is testament to our commitment to driving the business forward through industry-leading responsible business practices that also enrich the lives of our colleagues and communities.
“Whether it’s actively encouraging biodiversity on our farms, supporting children’s bed charity Zarach with mattresses each month for children and families in poverty, or helping our employees achieve a better work-life balance by introducing a compressed four-day working week, we know the importance of making a positive difference to the world around us.
“We’re immensely proud to have been recognised by the most prestigious Awards for Enterprise in the UK. Having previously won seven Queen’s and King’s Awards for Sustainable Development, Innovation, and International Trade, this latest accolade only reinforces our position as world leaders in sustainable bed and component manufacturing.”
Pictured: Receiving the 2023 King's Awards for International Trade and Innovation (Daniel Spinks, Peter Spinks, Lord Lieutenant Ed Anderson and Simon Spinks)
