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John Evans, who is the executive chairman for Beanies Flavour Coffee, based at Faverdale North in Darlington, was handed the prestigious award for his role in entrepreneurship, both in the North East and nationally.
While he has helped to build Beanies Flavour Coffee, alongside the founder of the brand Mark Porteous since 2011, making it a company that now exports to 30 countries across the world – Mr Evans has been driving businesses forward since the 1980s.
In 1988, he moved from London to Peterlee in County Durham, where he joined Smith’s Crisp plant, which no longer exists, but, in its heyday, was a large employer.
From there, Mr Evans helped to run Hazlewood Foods in Selby, North Yorkshire, prior to this he had worked for Carnation Foods, Nestle, Quaker Oats and PepsiCo Foods International.
His biggest success, though, came at SK Chilled Foods in Skelton, East Cleveland, where he oversaw the development of it from a small-scale company to a multi-million-pound operation that at peak employed 800 people and expanded into multiple locations in East Cleveland and Teesside.
In the late 1990s, SK Chilled Foods was the fastest growing company in the North East, with Mr Evans saying that he has been “flying the flag for business in the region” ever since.
John Evans, Executive Chairman of Beanies Flavour Coffee (Image: JOHN EVANS)
More recently, through the Beanies Flavour Coffee brand, he helped deliver the business the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2022 for International Trade.
Despite all of the accolades and acclaim, Mr Evans insists that the jobs he’s had were pretty tough at times but feels the OBE reflects the work he has put in over the decades.
He said: “In the majority of roles I have had, I’ve worked all hours and during one period 364 days a year. When I ran the Plymouth business for Hazlewood Foods, on a turn round project, I used to travel 365 miles each way and work down there Monday to Friday before travelling back up north for the weekend.
“I look back over the years with affection at the many roles I’ve had with a great deal of satisfaction and achievement.”
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Alongside his work life, Mr Evans has found himself as an active member of the community in Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire, where he’s the vice chair of the parish council and helps to keep the village a “lovely place to live”.
He added: “We try and tidy up the village as much as possible, put up the Christmas decorations in winter and put in flower tubs to make it look nice.”
Now that Mr Evans has received the OBE, he will travel down to Buckingham Palace in March with his wife, his business partner and their partner – where he will have the honour bestowed on him.
He says that fact fills him and his family, who have supported him throughout his career particularly his wife Elaine, with an “immense sense of pride”.
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