[1][2] Thanet Earth's main customers are Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, M&S and agency HRGO.

[1] The UK's largest privately owned fresh produce supplier, Fresca Group Ltd, has a 50% stake in the trading business that sells all the crops grown at the site, Thanet Earth Marketing Limited.

The company were quoted as saying that "For ventilation purposes we have to leave tiny gaps where the blinds meet.

Even when the blinds are fully closed we estimate that approximately 2 per cent of area is uncovered.

"[8] As the first of its kind in the UK, the Thanet Earth project received minor, but national coverage.