Bakeries of the United Kingdom

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AB Mauri

AB Mauri is an operating division of Associated British Foods (ABF). It was formed in 2004 from the bakery ingredients businesses that ABF had acquired, including those from Australian Burns Philp, Sohovos in Brazil, DSM in Europe, and Oregon-based Innovative Cereal Systems.

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Bakers Oven

Bakers Oven

Bakers Oven was a British bakery chain. In May 1994, it was acquired by Greggs; in December 2008 the Bakers Oven shops were renamed as Greggs.

Bakers Oven was founded by Allied Bakeries in 1976, and its first location was in Barnard Castle. In 1984, the company acquired the 64 outlets of Carricks of Newcastle and converted them to Bakers Oven. In March 1990, there were 628 outlets and four main bakeries.

In May 1994, it was sold to Greggs for £18.5 million in cash. The transaction included 424 shops and two main bakeries, one in Twickenham and one in Newcastle. The majority of Bakers Oven outlets were located in the South of England, whilst most Greggs outlets were in the North, so the property portfolios were complementary. 20 percent of stores were freehold.

Both chains had sales of around £100 million, but Greggs was significantly more profitable. 169 Bakers Oven outlets had in-store bakeries, and 170 outlets provided seating. After the Greggs takeover Bakers Oven shops coexisted with Greggs, offering higher quality at higher prices and focussing on a higher socio-economic demographic. The 2007 Retail Directory stated that were 216 Bakers Oven outlets.

On 9 December 2008 Greggs announced that Bakers Oven South and Midlands divisions would fully merge with Greggs PLC. All 165 Bakers Oven shops became Greggs, forming the division of Greggs East.

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Beigel Bake

Beigel Bake

Beigel Bake is a 24-hour bakery on Brick Lane, in London, England. Its menu is focused on beigels, baked in the traditional Jewish style with fillings such as hot salt beef with mustard, chopped herring, and cream cheese and salmon. It also serves pastries and sweets such as Danish rolls, apple strudel, Eccles cakes and cheesecake, as well as white, rye and black bread. Beigel Bake produces 7,000 bagels every day.

The restaurant was rated three stars by Time Out London magazine in 2010 (four stars by the magazine’s online users). It was also featured as a location in the photographic pictorial Life in the East End by London-based cabaret duo EastEnd Cabaret.

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Brace%27s Bakery

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British Bakeries

British Bakeries is the bread making arm of Rank Hovis McDougall, manufacturing Hovis, Nimble and Mothers Pride as well as supermarket's own brand bread for shops such as Tesco and Asda. British Bakeries parent company is Premier Foods. British Bakeries had two factories in Bradford, one in Thornbury and one on Thornton Road, which closed recently as well as further factories in Kingston upon Hull, and Wigan.

The closure of British Bakeries factory on Thornton Road in Bradford was justified by the relatively small size of the factory, compared to its counterpart at the other side of town, as well as other factories, as well as the £6 million repair quote for the roof. 70 staff were made redundant, including many apprentices, who received completion of their training as part of their redundancy package. The move was highly criticised by Trade Unions. However, no industrial action was taken.

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Burton%27s Biscuit Company

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Chelsea Bun House

The old Chelsea Bun House was a shop in Chelsea which sold buns in the 18th century. It was famous for its Chelsea bun and also did a great trade in hot cross buns at Easter. It was patronised by royalty such as Kings George II, George III and their family.

It was on Jew's Row, by Grosvenor Row, on the main road from Pimlico to Chelsea, near Ranelagh Gardens. It seems to have started business early in the 18th century as Jonathan Swift wrote in his journal to Stella on 28 April 1711:

A fine day, but begins to grow a little warm; and that makes your little fat Presto sweat in the forehead. Pray, are not the fine buns sold here in our town; was it not Rrrrrrrrrare Chelsea buns? I bought one to-day in my walk; it cost me a penny; it was stale, and I did not like it, as the man said, &c.

Over a hundred years later, Sir Richard Phillips wrote in A Morning's Walk from London to Kew:

Before me appeared the shops so famed for Chelsea buns, which, for above thirty years, I have never passed without filling my pockets. In the original of these shops, for even of Chelsea buns there are counterfeits, are preserved mementos of domestic events, in the first half of the past century. The bottle-conjuror is exhibited in a toy of his own age; portraits are also displayed of Duke William and other noted personages; a model of a British soldier, in the stiff costume of the same age; and some grotto-works, serve to indicate the taste of a former owner, and were perhaps intended to rival the neighbouring exhibition at Don Saltero's. These buns have afforded a competency, and even wealth; to four generations of the same family; and it is singular, that their delicate flavour, lightness and richness, have never been successfully imitated. The present proprietor told me, with exultation, that George the Second had often been a customer of the shop; that the present King, when Prince George, and often during his reign, had stopped and purchased his buns; and that the Queen, and all the Princes and Princesses, had been among his occasional customers.

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Connoisseur%27s Bakery

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Cooplands

Cooplands (Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Ltd) is a bakery chain with over 100 outlets located across Yorkshire, Durham and Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom.

By 2011, it had expanded to become the third largest bakery chain in the UK. In 2011 the company's annual turnover was £23 million.

Cooplands produces takeaway food chiefly for the lunch-time trade, specialising in sandwiches, pasties, desserts, cakes, and bread. It competes with other local café and takeaway outlets, and national and international high street food chains and franchises.

Cooplands was founded as a single shop in Scarborough North Yorkshire in 1885, and was incorporated in 1949.

In 1999, the company opened 10 new stores, and expanded production at its Scarborough-based bakery with the creation of 80 new jobs. A further expansion was announced in June 2007 when it acquired the Hull-based bakery, Skeltons. The purchase added 34 outlets to the Cooplands chain.

In April 2011, Woodhead Bakery, a rival Scarborough-based chain, fell into administration. Of the 29 Woodhead outlets, Cooplands bought 18, and the rest were purchased by the Haldane Retail Group.

In 2005, Cooplands was noted as being an "established NVQ training centre", and received a National Training Award for staff training. The same year it held a "Careers in the Bakery Industry" event, with career advisors discussing employment opportunities.

The Doncaster-based Cooplands chain is part of the same family, and has a similar business model to the Scarborough chain, but operates independently. Coopland (Doncaster) Ltd. has outlets across South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and parts of Lincolnshire. It is a Private Limited Company, incorporated in 1933, with a 2011 turnover of £18.6 million. In February 2015 Cooplands Doncaster announced it had gone into administration and would close 39 stores and its head office and bakery in Doncaster.

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Cooks the Bakery

Cooks the Bakery is a specialist retail bakery chain of hot food, sandwiches and coffee, based in Solihull, in the West Midlands, England. The company went into administration on 21 November 2011. The trading rights to Three Cooks and Cooks the bakery were purchased from the administrators in June 2012, Three Cooks Bakery was re-launched under a franchising model with its first store opening in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

Three Cooks was the name given to a trio of high street bakers formerly trading as Clarks Bakery, Stephen's Bakery and Wimbush the Bakers. Based in Solihull, it was taken over by Rank Hovis McDougall and expanded into a 255 retail bakery, and then sandwich chain business. In 2000, as high street trends changed, it sold the freeholds of the various retail premises.

Due to financial difficulties arising from a downturn in high street trading conditions, in November 2006 the chain went into administration with a footprint of 158 shops, under the legal control of Tenon Group Tenon immediately closed 37 loss-making sites, with around 250 job losses.

Chairman Geoff Peppiatt bought 121 of the former Three Cooks shops, and managed to save 900 jobs, operating under the new brand Cooks the Bakery. Peppiatt left the business in late 2009, by which time Cooks the Bakery was no longer involved in Van Delivery or Schools Catering.

After this point, the business was run by Richard Prime (Managing Director) and Steven Greaves (Director) until the final collapse in late 2011. Between Peppiatt leaving and final collapse, the chain faced reducing High Street footfall and rising costs, and had been constantly reducing the number of stores. The company went into administration on 21 November 2011, having shrunk to 16 outlets.

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