Textile chief John Cotton has a date at Buckingham Palace next week.
The 74-year-old chairman of Mirfield-based bedding manufacturer John Cotton Group Ltd will receive the MBE at a ceremony at the palace on Wednesday (Nov 26).
Mr Cotton, who has headed the family firm for more than 50 years, was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list earlier this year for services to business in Yorkshire.
He will be joined at the investiture by his wife Barbara and sons Nicholas and Mark.
Mr Cotton said he was thrilled to receive the award, which recognises his success in building up the Huddersfield Road company into a £160 million turnover business.
The firm employs more than 600 people at its Nunbrook Mills site in Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, and hundreds more at factories in Wigan and Wroclaw, Poland.
The company, founded in 1916, was set up to recycle waste textiles but has developed to supply fillings for mattresses and upholstery as well as manufacturing pillows and duvets under the Slumberdown and Snuggledown brand names.
Mr Cotton was appointed chairman of the company in 1958 and continues to devote three or four days week to company business as well as supporting a number of charities.
His hobbies include horse-racing and he has a small string of horses.
