egg company owner noble foods country uk introduced 2009 markets uk and us website thehappyegg.co.uk the happy egg company is one of the uk s largest free range egg brands . 1 originally setup in january 2009 by noble foods the brand s annual turnover for 2013 was close to 75 million . 2 the brand philosophy is to put the welfare of their hens first and the company claim to operate above established free range egg production standards . the company s farms have 20 % tree coverage and assorted environmental enhancements . 3 the brand launched in the us in october 2012 . 4 5 in january 2015 the american humane association announced that the company is the first egg producer to receive humane certification . 6 contents 1 history 2 operations 3 marketing 3.1 nice pecks 3.2 pancake omatic 4 references 5 external links history edit january 2009 date of company setup . july 2011 company is awarded the good egg award from compassion in world farming . 7 september 2012 company is awarded a second the good egg award from compassion in world farming . 8 october 2012 brand launches in us . 4 february 2014 announcement of one million packs sold in the us . 9 september 2014 happy egg us wins golden egg award at 50th international egg commission conference . 10 october 2014 announcement of happy egg us reaching 10 million brand value . 10 operations edit the company operations in the uk are managed from lincolnshire . currently the company operates over 100 farms across england wales and scotland and they sell over 3 4 million eggs a day . the happy eggs brand is sold in all major supermarket retailers ; including asda tesco sainsbury s morrison s and the co op along with some smaller chains and independent retailers . the company head office in the us is based in san francisco with farm operations in various preferred clarification needed us locations . since 2012 the us brand has grown to supply over 4 000 retail outlets across the country including wal mart kroger and safeway stores and has since launched its free range eggs in 6 count cartons into the market . marketing edit nice pecks edit inspired by an academic study showing that hens are calmer in the company of cockerels but knowing that cockerels mixed with chickens result in fertilized eggs the company created a pin up calendar for hens in december 2012 2013 and 2014 . 11 12 13 14 pancake omatic edit in february 2013 the company produced video content centred on a contraption that automatically makes pancakes from eggs laid only minutes before . nicknamed the pancake omatic 15 it was produced ahead of shrove tuesday and it took a group of four designers and engineers over two hundred hours to build and over one hundred follow up hours to test . following the release of the advert the original contraption was on display at the london design museum until june 2013 . 16 references edit our current corporate partners . british hen welfare trust . happy egg organic launch a positive step for recovery of organic . british free range egg producers association . 25 april 2014 . animal welfare . noble foods . a b happy egg aims to crack us free range egg market ahead of 2015 caged egg ban in california . the grocer . 20 october 2012 . nassauer sarah november 11 2013 . the hunt for a perfect egg how does an egg company make a healthier egg start with the chicken . wall street journal . producer in the united states to achieve humane certification from american humane association press release . pr newswire . 27 january 2015 . good egg award for happy egg farming uk news . british free range egg producers association . 29 july 2011 . happy egg company scoops second good egg award . farmers weekly . 11 october 2012 . briggs fiona 5 may 2003 . the happy egg co. celebrates us success and reaches one million packs sold . retail times . a b the happy egg co. wins prestigious golden egg award at 50th international egg commission . marketwired press release . 17 september 2014 . nice pecks keeping our hens happy . the happy egg co. retrieved 14 september 2016 . happy egg co creates pin up calendar for chickens archived from the original on 13 march 2016 retrieved 12 september 2016 behind the scenes on the nice pecks 2014 calendar shoot . the happy egg co. retrieved 14 september 2016 . happy egg company s 2015 nice pecks calendar . daily mail . retrieved 12 february 2015 . happy eggs pancake omatic . the happy egg co. retrieved 13 september 2016 . tepper rachel 8 february 2013 . pancake omatic is wallace & gromit inspired rube goldberg machine video . huffington post . external links edit uk website us website v t e poultry species chicken duck goose guineafowl grey partridge pheasant domestic pigeon common quail japanese quail turkey breeds chicken breeds duck breeds turkey breeds goose breeds pigeon breeds poultry farming chicken coop chicken harvester free range free range eggs pastured poultry organic egg production yarding hatchery battery cage furnished cages forced molting debeaking chick culling chick sexing hock burns blinders poultry aka chicken eyeglasses poultry litter poultry farming in the united states retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the happy egg company & oldid 742535142 categories 2009 establishments in englandcompanies based in lincolnshireegg organizationsbritish companies established in 2009food and drink companies established in 2009hidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from february 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 08 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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