A Gloucestershire couple have sewn up a victory with their business supplying martial arts belts across the globe.

Anja Hill has been running Black Belt Embroidery from her home since 2010 and it has swept to success with orders from Sweden, the United States and even Australia.

To keep up with demand, she and husband Tim Hill, who she met through the sport, have now moved the business into bigger premises at Space Business Centre in Quedgeley.

Anja said: "We both work as instructors in the martial arts and started the business over a decade ago because we are really passionate about working in the sport we love. We are proud to have expanded our client base and improved our product range.

"Following a house downsize, we struggled with storage for the business and decided to look at renting alternate premises and really liked the look of Space Gloucester, with its easily commutable location and flexible contracts."

Anja, who is originally from Germany, set up the business when she spotted a lack of options in the UK market to customise belts, used to represent a student's ability level.

Black Belt Embroidery offers pre-designed and custom belts to students, instructors and martial art clubs across the world.

Following an increase in orders, the couple realised they needed to expand their premises and purchase new machinery to ensure their business kept hitting its targets.

They were attracted to Space Business Centre in Gloucester due to the flexible contract lengths and variety of unit sizes on offer.

Anja said: "The Space team were great as we worked through our application and we couldn't be happier with the move, with the mezzanine level of our unit being the perfect layout for creating separation between the office space upstairs and the embroidery machines downstairs."

Space Business Centres Gloucester and Cheltenham are owned by property development company AC Lloyd.

Lucy Iles, site manager at AC Lloyd Space Business in Gloucester, said: "It is wonderful to welcome Black Belt Embroidery, a unique growing business as part of the community at Space Gloucester and I look forward to hearing about their future success."