It is now two years since the UK signed its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but for small businesses such as Doncaster-based Apothecary-87, the travails of trading across the English Channel show no signs of abating.
Owner Sam Martin’s range of premium beard oils and hair balms took off rapidly when his company was founded in 2012, but export growth came to a shuddering halt when the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement came into force on December 31, 2020.