– Bentley’s exceptional bees reflect the company’s outstanding success this year with a record honey harvest of around 1,000 jars
– Colony now over 600,000 – in ten active hives – producing exceptional honey
– Produced by Bentley’s Center of Excellence for Honey production, precious liquid gold shared among colleagues and visitors
– one of many initiatives to improve the local environment as part of Bentley’s #GOTOZERO strategy
(Crewe December 12, 2022) In parallel with the company’s financial success this year, Bentley’s standout Flying Bee has also had an exceptionally productive season. Following the performance level of their human counterparts, the bees produced around 1,000 jars of honey from Bentley’s own honey production center of excellence.
A colony of 120,000 native honey bees, established in May 2019 as part of Bentley’s #GOTOZERO sustainability strategy, has now grown to an impressive swarm of 600,000 in 10 active hives at the company’s headquarters. This is just one of the British brand’s many initiatives to conserve biodiversity across its extensive campus.
In partnership with Bentley’s Buckley Bees, the vacant honey farms have broken new records by producing more honey than ever before at the honey company’s center of excellence. Here each frame, overflowing with precious liquid gold, is turned to extract every last drop and then the honey is carefully drained and filtered before being decanted and poured into individual jars.
The jarring and packaging process is carried out with the utmost attention to detail and perfection as is expected of the Bentley brand. This special touch means that the elegant glasses are not just for sharing that honey with fellow Bentleys, but also make unique gifts for VIPs and guests at Bentley’s Crewe headquarters.
The Honey Competence Center is just one of many initiatives implemented to improve the sustainability of the area in the factory. Other activities include handcrafted bird and hedgehog crates scattered around campus by other Bentleys, 100 trees planted around the factory campus, and an impressive “seed bombardment” in which more than 5,000 daffodil bulbs were planted around campus improve the flora and fauna in the area. brought extraordinary benefits to the local environment.
Peter Bosch, Bentley’s Board Member for Manufacturing, comments:
“Not only are these amazingly hard workers contributing to our local biodiversity, in my opinion, they are also the producers of some of the finest quality honey in the world, taking inspiration from their counterparts in our Excellence Centre for Vehicle Finish.
“Next year, we are celebrating five years of carbon neutrality for our site in Crewe, and biodiversity plays a part in this success. While we celebrate this, we don’t rest on our laurels and constantly strive for new initiatives to improve our environmental impact even further, to ensure our site and end-to-end business operations reflect our ambitions to become the leader in sustainable luxury mobility.”