Business leaders in the food and leisure industries have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours.
Kamal Basran, from Wilmslow, who founded the Authentic Food Company, has been awarded an OBE for services to businesses and charity.
John Downs, from Alderley Edge, and managing director of Cosmo Leisure, was given an MBE for services to the leisure industry.
Mrs Basran launched the company in 1985 and now has a £35m-turnover, employing 250 staff and supplying frozen Indian, Oriental, Mediterranean and British dishes.
Customers include the Co-operative Group and Asda, as well as pubs, restaurants, hotels and the travel industry.
One of four children, Mrs Basran came to settle in the UK from the Punjab region of India with her parents in the 60s, when she was eight.
After training as a teacher, she taught history to teenagers at a school in Birmingham before moving to Manchester 34 years ago.
She worked as a junior school bilingual teacher in the early 80s before starting her own business in 1985.
She was inspired to set up her business after being disappointed by the ready-made Indian food on offer.
Her test batch of samosas were sold at a small delicatessen in Poynton, where she was living.
When this worked she moved into her own commercial kitchen and then a larger site in Stockport.
But the biggest business growth came 10 years later when the company moved to Sharston following a £5m investment in a new site.
The Authentic Food Company now produces up to 650,000 meals a week.
Mr Downs has been a director of Cosmo Leisure, which runs bingo clubs in Stalybridge and Eccles, for 22 years.
