Business is buzzing for Malcolm; SOLIHULL.VISITORS making a bee-line for the Good Food Show at the NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. at the weekend were given a sweet treat at the stall of a new Solihull company. Solihull Apiaries was hosting its stand at the prestigious show for the first time since bee-keeper Malcolm Taylor turned his hobby into a business. The 57-year-old, who has been keeping bees since he was a 15-year-old, now makes and sells all sorts of beeswax beeswax: see wax. beeswax Commercially useful wax secreted by worker honeybees to make the cell walls of the honeycomb. A bee consumes an estimated 6–10 lbs (3–4. products from polish to honey. He was one of more than 200 exhibitors in the Great British Food Festival hall at the show. The hall is geared towards promoting good, home-grown businesses who supply the food chain. Malcolm and his staff, who are based in School Road, Hockley Heath Hockley Heath is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. It is one of the Arden villages which later became a convenient stopping off point for users of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. , are now looking forward to dealing with the new customers they made at the show which featured a host of events including demonstrations by celebrity chefs and food and wine tastings CAPTION(S): WAXING LYRICAL... Bee-keeper Malcolm Taylor with his product at the Good Food Show. Picture: Jason Skarratt |
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