GEOFF Burrows who manages the Cash Generator in The Rock, Bury, is part of an award-winning business which has scooped a national accolade backed by the British Franchise Association.

Cash Generator was in good company as it lined up against Rosemary Conley Diet & Fitness Clubs and international hairdressers Toni & Guy to claim its Special Judges Award at the British Franchise Association's Franchisor of the Year Awards 2002.

Founder and chairman of Cash Generator, Brian Lewis, has built the business out of today's throwaway society in just eight years and now presides over a business with 60 stores each with an average turnover of nearly £1.6 million.

Cash Generator is in the business of recycling unwanted goods.