PIZZA firm Stateside Food of Haslingden, which produces 916,000 pizzas a month, is the latest East Lancashire firm to gain the Investors in People award.

It employs 260 staff producing pizzas for some of the UK's top supermarket chains.

Other local firms and organisations to recently attain the standard or pass their three-yearly reassessment include Wellhouse Wire Products of Barnoldswick; Mount Carmel RC High School, Accrington; the manufacturing division of Borden Decorative Products, Darwen; CV Home Furnishings, Burnley; Veka plc, Burnley, and Burnley's Towneley High School.

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