A MARYPORT-BASED firm is celebrating after receiving a stamp of approval from Good Housekeeping.

Grants Oak Smoked, based at the Solway Food Park, saw its Traditional Rope Hung Smoked Scottish Salmon be awarded the Good Housekeeping Institute's Taste Approved Awards this month.

The institute’s independent experts test thousands of products each year in Quality Assessment Tests at its facility in London.

Only the finest products are awarded the Taste Approved certification based on taste, texture, appearance and aroma.

Grants owner Jonathan Brown said: “This is yet another honour for our premium product, the Rope Hung.

“Good Housekeeping is the UK’s best-selling consumer magazine and has an online audience in the millions.

"The Good Housekeeping Institute’s stamp of approval is of huge importance because it carries real weight with millions of shoppers.

“Our Rope Hung is widely recognised as being among the world’s best and this new award confirms it.

"It already holds a three star Great Taste award, two gold medals from the Monde Federation and is the product of choice for some of the world’s leading chefs.

“The Rope Hung is so labour intensive and expensive to produce it makes little commercial sense to do so, but I wanted people to be able to enjoy smoked salmon as it really should taste.

“When I started the company in 1984, straight after leaving school, I wanted Grants to be the benchmark of quality."