A Welsh yoghurt company is celebrating after being crowned winner of Queen’s Award For Enterprise, the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

Based in Anglesey, Plas Farm, which has customers worldwide, produces frozen yoghurt for customers worldwide and is set to receive its award for its excellence in international trade in recognition of its increased year on year export sales.

“We are absolutely delighted to win this award, it really is an honour,” said David Williams, director and founder of Plas Farm.

He added: “This award puts Plas Farm among an elite group of UK companies. It will be a tremendous boost to us and a sign to our customers of the quality of our frozen yogurt and of our business achievements.”

Plas Farm has become one of the frozen yoghurt sectors European leaders putting fat-free frozen yoghurt on the shelves of shops worldwide.

“For us the biggest export markets are Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Pakistan and Cyprus, and we also have customers in Tanzania, Greece, Spain, Norway, France, and Qatar," said Mr Williams.

From its 18,000 sq ft purpose-built base at Gaerwen the company makes a range of frozen yogurt products, including soft mix yogurt for use in soft serve machines, frozen yogurt for smoothies, yogurt portions for blending and scooping yogurts for food service and retail.

The Farm has been producing frozen yogurt for more than 30 years, when dairy farmer Mr Williams switched to producing chilled yogurts and cheeses. Now the company has a £2m turnover and employs 20 full-time staff.

Mr Williams said: “We have doubled our production over the past two years and export sales have increased from around 5% of our turnover to about 40%.

“The sector has really taken off, indeed the frozen yogurt market in Europe was almost 10 times bigger in 2013 as it was in 2008.