Bakeries of the United Kingdom

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Kashmir Crown Bakeries

Kashmir Crown Bakeries

Kashmir Crown Bakeries (KCB) is a food making business based in Bradford. The company is a major local employer and claims to be the largest Asian Food Manufacturer in Europe.

KCB claims to be the pioneers of the Kashmir mix and the Karachi mix, Pakistani named savoury snacks which are comparable to the Bombay mix.

Food products are sold to retailers, wholesalers and local stores. KCB supply Tesco and the Co-op with a wide range of Asian snacks. The company has a distribution network spanning Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and Norway.

In February 2016, Kashmir Crown Bakeries was awarded the Business of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards.

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Jus-Rol

Jus-Rol

Jus-Rol is a manufacturer of frozen pastry, and related products such as vol-au-vents. The company is owned by General Mills.

The company began in 1954 in Coldstream, Scotland when local baker, Mr Tom Forsythe, started selling "Just Roll" puff pastry to his customers. Jus-Rol used to have more than one factory - the other was based in Amble but was sold in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1975 the business was sold to the food giant Fitch Lovell, before being sold off by Booker Group (the new owners of Fitch Lovell) in 1990 to Grand Metropolitan.

In early 2007, the parent company of Jus-Rol, General Mills, acquired the Northamptonshire frozen pastry and pork pie company Saxby Bros Ltd, in a takeover bid. All frozen pastry production was transferred from the Wellingborough Saxby's site to Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2008, terminating the Saxby brand. In 2016 the Berwick site closed as General Mills moved production outside of the U.K.

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Lisboa Patisserie

Lisboa Patisserie is a long-running Portuguese cafe and bakery in London's Golborne Road. It is particularly known for its pastel de nata cakes.

According to Time Out magazine, "Don’t arrive too late at the weekend if you want one of Lisboa’s famous pastel de nata – they often sell out by 2pm. It’s a humble setting, with plenty of banter from staff and slightly fancier pâtisserie than some other Portuguese cake shops. Bica (Portuguese espresso) was good and strong, and they do a nice galão (latte) too."

Yotam Ottolenghi, the Israeli-born cookery writer and chef-patron says that it is one of his favourite shops in London. It has been in Golborne Road since at least the 1990s.

Coordinates: 51°31′20″N 0°12′27″W / 51.52234°N 0.207475°W / 51.52234; -0.207475

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Liverpool Vienna Bakery Kirkland Brothers

The Liverpool Vienna Bakery Kirkland Brothers is a former bakery located on 13 Hardman Street in Liverpool, England.

Robert Kirkland, born at Airdrie in 1853, gave up banking to join his brother in this baking and catering business. He was chairman and also chairman of Fletcher's, Limited, in Birmingham. He was given a royal warrant of appointment as baker to Queen Victoria, with authority to use the Royal Arms, and he was also baker to the Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain. He was President of the National Association of Master Bakers in 1890-91.

The bakery continued to exist until the 1970s and was turned into a pub "Fly in the Loaf" in the late 1990s.

The exterior of the former bakery featured in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Love's Sweet Song (Ireland 1916).

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Millie%27s Cookies

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Mr Kipling

Mr Kipling

Mr Kipling is a brand of cakes, pies and baked goods marketed in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was introduced in May 1967 (at a time when cakes were more often bought from local bakers), to sell cakes of a local baker's standard to supermarkets, and grew to become the United Kingdom's largest cake manufacturer by 1976. The trademark is owned by Premier Foods, after its acquisition of Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) in 2007.

Mr Kipling's Cakes are made by the RHM subsidiary known as Manor Bakeries Ltd. which also produces products under the Lyons and Cadbury names. The Cadbury cakes are produced under licence from Cadbury plc, the owners of the brand name.

In recent years, the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil has been phased out in many Mr Kipling cakes.

With advertising using the phrase "exceedingly good cakes", and television adverts which originally featured the voice of actor James Hayter, the brand had become the market leader in the United Kingdom by 1976, a position it still holds over thirty years later. Varieties of single-serving and individually wrapped cakes have also been marketed.

In the early 2000s, the Mr Kipling brand moved away from its familiar design, and, for about a year, a modern logo, consisting of a red oval with "Mr Kipling" in a script font inside the oval, was used. The slogan was modified to simply read "Exceedingly Good" and the description of cakes on the back of the packaging was altered so that it no longer appeared as if it were written by Mr Kipling.

Around 2005, the manufacturers briefly experimented with another new logo and a striking pack design: pack-fronts simply consisting of the words "Mr Kipling", the name of the cake, and the phrase "Exceedingly good cakes" in a more formal, classic typeface; the only image of the cake on each pack-front was a close-up of one part of it, used as a background image for the entire pack. Around the same time, the write-ups on the back of their packaging once again purported to be written by the person of Mr Kipling.

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New York Bagel (UK)

Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (: MFI) is a major Canadian consumer packaged meats company. Its head office is in Toronto, Ontario.

Maple Leaf Foods is the result of the 1991 merger between Canada Packers and Maple Leaf Mills.

Canada Packers was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers, most prominently William Davies Company and was immediately Canada's largest food processor, a title it would hold for the next sixty years. Already in the 1930s, it used the brand name Maple Leaf for its pork products. Its main business was pork, and its massive operations processing hogs for export to the United Kingdom helped Toronto earn its nickname "Hogtown." Moving into western Canada it became Canada's largest beef slaughterer. In 1944, it also entered the tanning industry with the acquisition of Beardmore & Co.

Canada Packers diversified into other food products including ice cream, cheese, and canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, by 1950 marketed under the York brand. In 1975, it was listed as the 14th largest business in Canada.

During the 1980s, Canada Packers began to suffer. It closed some facilities, including its tannery. It moved into other markets, acquiring well-known brands such as Squirrel peanut butter and Black Diamond cheese.

Maple Leaf Mills was created in 1961 through the amalgamation of the Maple Leaf Milling Company Limited, Toronto Elevators Limited and Purity Flour Mills Limited. Its origins can be traced back over 170 years to Grantham Mills, built in 1836 in St. Catharines, Ontario.

In 1989, the McLean family that had dominated Canada Packers since its founding announced its intention to sell its stake in the company. The controlling interest passed in 1990 to the British Hillsdown Holdings, which already owned Maple Leaf Mills, through a complex transaction in which Canada Packers purchased Maple Leaf Mills in exchange for its own shares. In 1991, the combined company was renamed Maple Leaf Foods. The firm thus included a large bread division, best known for the Dempster's brand (Canada's best selling brand of bread). During restructuring efforts led by David Newton as CEO and Lewis Rose as CFO, it sold or closed most of its slaughterhouses. These measures were successful and the company returned to profitability.

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Peek Freans

Peek Freans is the name of a former biscuit making company based in Bermondsey, London, which is now a global brand of biscuits and related confectionery owned by various food businesses. Owned but not marketed in the UK and Europe by United Biscuits, in the United States and Canada the brand is owned by Mondelēz International, whilst in Pakistan the brand is owned by English Biscuit Manufacturers.

James Peek (1800–1879) was one of three brothers born in Dodbrooke, Devon, to a well-off family. In 1821 the three brothers founded a tea importation company, established as Peek Brothers and Co., in the East End of London. By the 1840s, the company was importing £5M of tea per annum.

In 1824, James married Elizabeth Masters (1799–1867). The couple had eight children. By 1857, two of his late-teenage sons had announced that they were not going to join the family tea import business. James wanted them in a complementary trade and proposed that they start a biscuit business. After founding the business, the two sons quickly decided on a different course (one died in his early 20s; the other emigrated to North America). As a consequence James needed someone to run the biscuit business. One of his nieces, Hannah Peek, had recently married George Hender Frean, a miller and ship biscuit maker in Devon, so James wrote to George asking him to manage the new biscuit business.

The partners registered their business in 1857 as Peek, Frean & Co. Ltd, based in a disused sugar refinery on Mill Street in Dockhead, East London, in the west of Bermondsey. With a quickly expanding business, in 1860 Peek engaged his friend James Carr, the apprenticed son of noted Carlisle-based Scottish milling and biscuit making family, Carr's.

From 1861, the company started exporting biscuits to Australia, but outgrew their premises from 1870 after agreeing to fulfil an order from the French Army for 460 long tons (470 t) of biscuits for the ration packs supplied to soldiers fighting the Franco-Prussian War. After hostilities ended, the French Government ordered a further 16,000 long tons (16,000 t)/11million sweet Pearl biscuits in celebration of the end of the Siege of Paris, and further flour supplies for Paris in 1871 and 1872, with financing undertaken by their bankers the Rothschilds. The consequential consumer demands of emigrating French expatriate soldiers, allowed the company to start exporting directly to Ontario, Canada from the mid-1870s.

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Percy Ingle

Percy Ingle is a baker and retailer founded in 1954 by Percy Ingle. The chain has now has over 50 outlets, in London and also Essex.

Michael Ingle is the current Director of Percy Ingle Bakeries, grandson of the founder.

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Peters (bakery)

Peters was a British bakery chain. Peters became defunct in 2012 and all bakeries were sold to family-run business Cooplands.

It was founded by Peter Knowles in 1966 with its first branch at Belmont in Durham; it had 71 branches across North East England.

Its principal competitors are the Newcastle-based Greggs, who maintain branches in the same area.

In 2003 its production plant at Durham was destroyed in a large fire forcing production to move to temporary accommodation in Peterlee until September 2005 when a new £9 million facility was opened on the same site.

In 2012 22 Peters Bakery stores across the North East region were sold to the family business Coopland and Son of Scarborough; this resulted in the closure of 34 stores.

The Peters’ factory at the Dragonville Industrial Estate, in Durham, also transfer ownership to Cooplands the Peters' retail van business was being transferred over to Cooplands as well.

When Peters' made the sale their financial statements showed it had a turnover of more than £12 million on the back of a network of 58 Peters’ Bakers stores across the North East region.

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