Bentley set a record, but not in speed, but in honey production (7 photos)

British luxury car manufacturer Bentley has announced that it has managed to produce 1,000 jars of honey.





Bentley Honey Center of Excellence achieved record results: in 2022, a thousand jars of honey were produced, generated by the bees living on the territory of the company. Buy this honey is impossible, it is offered only to guests of the enterprise in Crewe in as a special gift.



The company calls the honey project Flying Bees. AT the name of the project is a play on words, as the Bentley logo, hovering the letter that is placed on the hoods of cars is known as Flying b.





The first bees appeared in Crewe in 2019. Then the colony numbered 190 thousand individuals, now their number exceeds 600 thousand. They live in 10 hives, which are monitored by beekeepers from the Buckley company. bees. The company claims that honey is harvested, filtered and packaged with the same attention to detail that is practiced in assembly cars.



The Flying Bees project came about as part of Bentley's initiative to achieve carbon neutral enterprise in Crewe. In addition to breeding bees company employees practice caring for the hedgehogs living in the territory, and also planting new trees and flowers. To improve the flora planted, for example, more than 5 thousand bulbs of daffodils.