A WILD game and venison supplier says new packaging equipment has allowed it to increase turnover.

Yorkshire Game, based in Brompton-on-Swale, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, spent more than £530,000 on packaging and weighing tools.

The business, which supplies game and wild meat from estates in Northern England and Scotland, and counts Michelin-star restaurants and supermarkets at customers, says the move has lifted turnover ten per cent.

Bosses say the equipment was partly funded by catering asset finance organisation Academy Leasing.

Adrian Lyons, Yorkshire Game managing director, added it will allow the business to meet the growing demand for game from supermarkets.

He said: “We already supply Michelin-starred restaurants and retail suppliers, but last year saw new orders from Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.

“Consumers are increasingly looking for lean, healthy and sustainable meat and now they expect to find it in their local supermarket.

“We have had to more than double our production capacity to meet the soaring demand.”

Hazel Jacques, Academy Leasing’s sales director, added: “With 30 years’ experience of supplying finance to the catering equipment industry, we understand the cyclical nature of some sectors like wild game.

“We are confident that, with our help, Yorkshire Game will go on to achieve even greater success.”