Top 100: Huge leap in turnover for smoked salmon firm

Brexit, the price of fish and a national shortage of staff failed to stop Severn & Wye Smokery from swimming upstream in its last financial year, with turnover leaping significantly to £67m-plus.

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Richard Cook saw value in building a Forest of Dean brand around the salmon from the mysterious brown waters of the River Severn when no one else did, and what started as a cottage industry has become a multi-million pound empire.

From humble beginnings in 1989 his passion for restoring the ecosystems of the Severn, for the product from those waters, and his bus…