How we've helped Cornish Rock Gin
Business overview
A dog walk on Rock beach near their North Cornish home gave Angie Malde and husband George the inspirational setting for a new business venture that would see them produce a collection of sumptuous spirits.
Cornish Rock Gin is distilled by hand in small batches using pure Cornish spring water and botanicals. Since launching their new venture, Angie and George have diversified their product range to include five different gins and two spiced rums. Thanks to continued growth, they have also been able to employ another member of staff, Jane Rickard, as well as two seasonal part-time staff.
Rock Gin supplies 50 farm shops in Cornwall and Devon and St Austell Brewery’s estate, and the business is now looking for distributors in London.
The Growth Hub got to know our business and suggested organisations that could help us reach our business goals. Most importantly, they were so positive and supportive.
How we helped
Angie began speaking with the Growth Hub team in March 2018, as she looked for ways to transform her business ambitions into reality.
After meeting with Business Connector Mark Harris, Angie and George were signposted for further support including Unlocking Potential’s Breakthrough Cornwall team for start-up business support; Superfast Business Cornwall for web and online support; Avanti’s Connecting Rural Cornwall project for subsidised broadband at their house; the BIG2 grant scheme to help fund machinery, and SWMAS, which supports growth in manufacturing businesses.
Angie explained: “Because of the signposting, we were able to receive grant funding to help us buy our first still which is named Bonanza Boy, after my favourite racehorse,” said Angie. “We have also been supported to purchase a bottling plant which is transforming our efficiency and the scale and growth of production.”
"The Growth Hub got to know our business and suggested organisations that could help us reach our business goals. Most importantly, they were so positive and supportive of us right from the beginning and really helped to show us that we could make this business work."
The Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub from May 2016 - June 2023 was part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and match funded by Cornwall Council, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership. The project received £2,848,591.49 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.
| Business name | Cornish Rock Gin |
|---|---|
| Website | https://www.rockgincornish.com/ |
| Contact number | 01208 851718 |
| Contact email | [email protected] |