WHEN David Hewston started keeping five chickens in his back garden, in Bromsgrove, 40 years ago, he hardly 'eggs-pected' to become a major employer.

But now with a staff of 55, Bumble Hole Eggs, in Fockbury, which he owns and runs with his son Andrew and daughter Sharon Jones, holds 30,000 chickens and supplies eggs and products to all major supermarkets.

More than four million eggs are used each year by the firm - so many that they have to buy in more for their expanding egg mayonnaise business.

Now the company is trying to keep ahead by moving into cyberspace with www.eggmayonnaise.com

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