Murrays Health & Beauty is celebrating 50 years of supplying products to pharmacies.The business was started by Ernest Murray (pictured), father of current company chairman and managing director, Paul Murray.

Ernest Murray wrote his first order for a pharmacist from his house in Winchester in October 1959.Since then the company has expanded to become a national business with supply links to the Far East.Paul Murray said: “It is remarkable that from the front room of my father’s house the company has grown over the past 50 years to become a major force in the health and beauty accessories market.”