A DISTRIBUTION firm scooped a prestigious award and staff were jetting off to the US as a reward.

Option Hygiene, Blackburn, was one of five winners of the GOJO Jet Set sales initiative, and beat competition from more than 40 companies with high sales of the firm’s touch dispenser.

As part of the prize they were flown to the state-of-the-art headquarters in Akron, Ohio, and toured the company’s base.

Option Hygiene director John Derbyshire said: “We are so pleased that our hard work has been recognised in this way and we really looked forward to the trip.”