Rowse Honey Ltd is a
United Kingdom
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honey
Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primar ...
manufacturer. Its products are stocked by major supermarket chains and other stores. They also supply
Kellogg's with honey for use in breakfast cereals. Other products include
lemon curd
Fruit curd is a dessert spread and topping usually made with citrus fruit, such as lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit or tangerine. Other flavor variations include passion fruit, mango, and berries such as raspberries, cranberries or blackberries ...
and
maple syrup.
History
Tony Rowse began beekeeping in a shed in
Ewelme
Ewelme () is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, north-east of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,048. To the east of the village is Cow Common and to the ...
,
Oxfordshire in 1938 and it was then that he formed the Rowse Honey Company in the village in 1954, in 1971 it became a Limited company. In 1987 the company moved to larger premises in nearby
Wallingford and Tony's son Richard took over the running of the business that year. In September 2006 the company was purchased for c£70 million by Wellness Foods.
Valeo Foods
Valeo Foods is an Irish multinational producer of branded food and beverage products. The company has a portfolio of over 50 international food brands which are sold across 90 countries globally, including Rowse Honey, Odlums, Batchelors, Jacob ...
acquired the company in March 2014.
Packaging and strength ratings
The honey is sold in
hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°.
Regular hexagon
A '' regular hexagon'' has ...
al glass jars and
beehive
A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus '' Apis'' live and raise their young. Though the word ''beehive'' is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature ...
style plastic bottles with green lids. The jars display a strength rating on the following scale: Mild, Fairly Mild, Medium, Fairly Strong, Strong.
Most recently a new snap and squeeze variety sachet has been released in the UK.
Varieties
The main varieties of everyday honey are:
* Pure & Natural Clear Honey
* Pure & Natural Set Honey
* Organic Set Honey
* Organic Clear Honey
* Fairtrade Clear Honey
* Light & Mild Honey
Monofloral honey
Monofloral honey is a type of honey which has a distinctive flavor or other attribute due to its being predominantly from the nectar of a single plant species. It is stored and labeled separately so as to command a premium price. While there may ...
varieties include: English Wildflower, Scottish
Heather,
Clover
Clover or trefoil are common names for plants of the genus ''Trifolium'' (from Latin ''tres'' 'three' + ''folium'' 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume or pea family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus ...
,
Orange
Orange most often refers to:
*Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis''
** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower
*Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
* ...
Blossom,
Acacia and
Manuka. Honey imported from
Australia,
New Zealand
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,
Tasmania
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and
Greece
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is sold.
Rowse also produce novelty honeys including:
* Honey with Cinnamon
* Chilli Fusion Honey
References
External links
* {{Official website
Food manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Honey
Companies based in Oxfordshire
British companies established in 1954
Food and drink companies established in 1954