2022 was a banner year for Bentley’s “Flying Bees”, which produced a record 1,000 jars of honey from the company’s Excellence Centre for Honey Production. Bentley founded the Excellence Centre as part of its #GOTOZERO sustainability initiative to promote biodiversity around the grounds of its campus. The “Flying Bees” started as a colony of 120,000 indigenous honey bees in 2019 and has since grown to over 600,000 spread across ten active bee hives. As Bentley describes it, the extraction and jarring processes are handled with the same “attention to detail and excellence that is expected of the Bentley brand.” Once the honey is properly decanted, it is carefully packaged in elegant jars. Then it is offered as a unique gift to VIP visitors and guests to the Bentley headquarters in Crewe. Read original article here.
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