'A pub receipt gave us an idea... now it's making millions'
When friends Liam Manton and Mark Smallwood went for a drink at a pub in Didsbury five years ago, they never could have imagined it would lead to a letter from the King.
"We were both working full time jobs and we were approached to go on Dragon's Den so we turned it down," recalled Liam, 35, who is originally from Collyhurst but now lives in Ancoats. "We got two offers and went with Jenny Campbell who is a fellow northerner. She's still very much involved with the business now."
"We had raw alcohol so I told him to let me have a look and get back to him. Within a week we'd made the equivalent of 2.7million bottles for every hospital in Greater Manchester, doctor's surgeries, and police stations. "There were a lot of sharks making a lot of money at the time from a lot of these organisations and charging extortionate prices," Liam said.
For Liam, whose dad passed away this week, the award was bittersweet. "We found out a week before Christmas and for me personally, because my dad was seriously ill, to be able to share that news with him before he passed was amazing," he said.
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