The multi-award winning Yorkshire Meatball Co. launched the UK’s first premium meatball restaurant and brand in March 2014. In its first year, it took three awards from nine short-lists and, in the second, it launched a franchise and raised over £120,000 through crowdfunding. The company made the StartUps100 list of top UK Start-Up businesses for three consecutive years (2015/17) and was a case-study in the 2017 Annual Report of the British Business Bank. Its range of fresh meatballs, launched into supermarkets in late 2016 and received the Great British Food Magazine’s Best New British Product Award, 2017. But, by the end of September 2017, the company produced its last meatball