Andrew Newlands Email & Phone Number

MD & founder of The Monty Bojangles Co Ltd. Owner of Hope & Greenwood, The Piccadilly Sweet Parade. Patron to Home-Start Croydon Charity.At TMBC we believe in creativity with precision, and ambition with sustainability. We are expert confectioners.• First business launched in 2001 ‘Rascals Design’ when I was 19 selling new media and graphics design services.• 2005, at 24, started Honeycomb Project Management Ltd. Manifesto was to supply comprehensive B2B services to confectionery and snacking manufacturers in the UK, US & Europe. • 2009 I created the Monty Bojangles brand which has grown to present day value of circa £20m at retail.• 2010 secured the license to produce confectionery under the Robinsons, Fruit Shoot brands in a partnership with Britvic.• 2012 successfully added J20 to the brand license portfolio. • 2014 redesigned & relaunched the Monty Bojangles brand with an exceptional new look that has since won 7 design awards including 2 DBA’s and a Red Dot award.• 2015 purchased Hope & Greenwood brand, a pioneering 10 year old sugar confectionery brand listed in premium retail.• 2017 finalist for The Amazon Growing Business Awards: ECI Consumer Business of the Year.• Dec 2017 I featured on The Apprentice on the BBC as a market expert in the final episode.• 2018 ranked 17th in Sunday Times Lloyds SME Export Track 100 League table. Ranked Britain's fastest-growing FMCG SME Exporter.• April 2018 won the highly prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2018.• Sept 2019 won The Communicator Award for Digital Excellence for our newly launched website MontyBojangles.com.• Nov 2020 won a Quality Food 'Q' Award for a Christmas confectionery product.• 2021 a Finalist for the 'Growing Business Awards', and 'Product Innovation Awards: Product of the Year'.• Nov 2022 won a Quality Food 'Q' Award for a Vegan confectionery product.• 2023 won another prestigious Kings Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2023; a particular honour being the first awarded in King Charles' Coronation Year.• Nov 2023 Won Gold and crowned overall Champion in the chocolate bar category of The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards.• Dec 2023 became Patron to Home-Start Croydon Charity.• Dec 2024 Won Gold in the chocolate category of The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards.• Won a total of 50 Great Taste Awards, including the highly prestigious 3 Star Award.• Voted a ‘Best Brand’ in Guild of Fine Food's Fine Food Digest 8 times. • TMBC & partners have won a total of 12 Own Label related awards including the Gold Q Award 2014.