The Biskery Named a Nation's Favourite Business

The purpose-led Leeds bakery, whose branded biscuits are ordered by the likes of Meta and Burberry, has been chosen as one of Small Business Saturday’s Nation’s Favourite Businesses

A Leeds biscuit company has won national recognition in one of the UK’s best-known small-business campaigns. The Biskery, a purpose-led artisan bakery based in the city, has been named one of the Nation’s Favourite Businesses by Small Business Saturday UK. The accolade, part of the American Express-backed campaign now in its 13th year, highlights a hundred standout small firms from across the country each year. For the Leeds bakery, a female-founded, female-run business that makes branded and personalised biscuits, it is a national spotlight on a distinctive Leeds success story.

Why This Matters For Leeds

Recognition like this shines a national light on the kind of small, values-driven firms that are the backbone of the Leeds economy. Seeing a homegrown one celebrated alongside the country’s best is good for Leeds’s profile and for the founder community around it. Championing firms like it is exactly what a healthy local business community should do.

Why The Biskery Was Recognised

Founded in 2016 by Lisa Shepherd and Saskia Roskam and built on a German grandmother’s recipe, the company makes premium, made-to-order biscuits for corporate clients and individuals, from branded biscuits carrying a company logo to personalised gifts sent in letterbox-friendly packaging. Its client list is striking for a business of its size, spanning names such as Meta, Burberry, Hilton, Lloyds and the NHS, and its work has been recognised with a Great Taste Award. Just as distinctive is how it operates: every batch is baked to order by an all-female team, many of them mothers, returners to work or neurodivergent individuals, for whom the bakery has designed flexible roles built around school hours. That combination of commercial quality and social purpose is what the Nation’s Favourite Businesses recognition is designed to celebrate.

“We deliver branded biscuits that make people feel valued and your brand impossible to ignore.”

— Lisa Shepherd, Co-founder, The Biskery

A National Platform for a Leeds Business

The recognition brings real benefits beyond the badge. Small Business Saturday, a grassroots campaign celebrating the UK’s 5.7 million small businesses, gives its chosen firms national social media and press exposure and has historically invited them to receptions in London at Downing Street, the House of Lords and the Treasury. The main campaign day falls on 5 December but the spotlight runs through the autumn. For a Leeds firm that has grown from a grandmother’s recipe into a supplier to global brands, it is a well-timed boost heading into its busiest season. The Biskery is also a familiar name in the city’s business community and a reminder that some of the city’s most compelling businesses come in small, and very tasty, packages.