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Bakeries Grant Thornton has sold 32 Ferrari's bakery outlets in Wales out of administration to ICD Wales, securing the future of 200 jobs, and a further 40 jobs will be saved through a management buy-out of the Best Bakeries factory in Hirwaun. 24-Jun-2008 Tindale & Stanton has been bought out of administration by a new company called Hobson Foods, securing the future of almost 160 bakery jobs in Burnopfield and Gateshead. 13-Jun-2008 Miller's Traditional Bakery is to create up to 30 jobs at its new 16,000 sq ft bakery on Heron Road in Belfast over the next three years. 10-Jun-2008 Warburtons is to open a new £45m bakery at the Western Approach Distribution Park in Bristol in December, with the creation of 450 jobs. 30-May-2008 Best Bakeries is to shed about 50 jobs at its bakery in Hirwaun, near Merthyr Tydfil. 30-May-2008 Lyndale Foods is planning to shed up to 150 jobs at its Sayers bakery in Norris Green, Liverpool. 10-Apr-2008 Warburtons is to open a new 15,000 sq ft bakery depot at Howden in East Yorkshire in July, with the transfer of 42 jobs from its site in Gilberdyke. 05-Mar-2008 Lees Foods has acquired Patisserie UK, the Livingston-based bakery and dessert manufacturer with 50 staff, for up to £2.5m. 05-Dec-2007 Fletchers Bakeries is planning to shed more than 200 jobs at its bakery in Sheffield by the end of the year. 07-Sep-2007 Premier Foods is planning to close its bakery in Bradford with the loss of 370 jobs and its bread distribution depot in Telford with the loss of 60 jobs. 23-Aug-2007 Croda International has sold its Oldham-based food services business, which supplies products to the bakery sector, to AAK UK for £7.4m. 03-Jul-2007 Skeltons, the Hull-based bakery, has been bought out of administration by Cooplands of Scarborough, securing the future of 477 jobs and 34 shops. 07-Jun-2007 Inter Link Foods is planning to shed 120 of the 1,800 jobs in its Blackburn-based bakery business, as part of a recovery plan that includes the standardisation of working practices at its 11 bakeries. 21-May-2007 Evron Foods, the manufacturer of frozen and chilled bakery products with 250 staff at sites in Craigavon and Pontypool, has announced a £3m three-year expansion plan. 30-Apr-2007 William Stephen is to relocate the headquarters of its Dunfermline-based bakery to a new 32,000 sq ft site nearby in January 2008. 24-Apr-2007 Greggs is planning to build a new £16m 75,000 sq ft bakery in Openshaw, in order to relocate from its existing site in east Manchester, and construction work will start in autumn. 12-Apr-2007 Ferrari's Bakery, the operator of 60 South Wales bakeries, has been bought out of administration by Best Bakeries, but the Swansea-based Celtic Savouries division will close with the loss of 20 jobs. 28-Feb-2007 Tenon Recovery has been appointed liquidator at Pat-a-Cake, with the loss of 54 jobs at a Workington bakery and seven shops. 23-Nov-2006 Tenon Recovery has sold 123 of the Three Cooks bakery outlets out of administration to Cooks the Bakery, while 37 sites have been closed. 07-Nov-2006 Wrights Pies is planning to open 50 new bakery outlets across the West Midlands over the next five years, with the creation of 250 jobs, and is also seeking permission to build a £3m cold-storage facility at its site in Crewe. 17-Oct-2006 Inter Link Foods, the operator of 12 bakeries, is considering plans for a £70m management buy-out. 25-Sep-2006 Allied Bakeries Ireland is to invest £6m in the expansion of its bakery in Belfast, including new equipment and the creation of 18 new jobs. 05-Sep-2006 La Pizza Company, the West Sussex-based bakery products manufacturer with 17 staff, has undergone a buy-in management buy-out backed by Vantis Corporate Finance. 04-Sep-2006 Northern Foods is to close its Trafford Park pastry products bakery in Manchester by the end of the year, with the loss of 690 jobs, while 200 jobs will be lost at its Palethorpes pie factory in Market Drayton. 25-Aug-2006 Inter Link Foods is investing £2m in two new bakeries in Greater Manchester, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 13-Jul-2006 Warburtons is creating an initial 30 jobs at its new bakery distribution centre at the Heathfield Industrial Estate in Newton Abbot. 04-Jul-2006 New Primebake is to create 44 new jobs at its bakery in Nantwich by the end of the year, and the site will be extended by 36,000 sq ft. 06-Jun-2006 Lyndale Foods is to shed up to 180 jobs at the Sayers bakery in Liverpool, due to the loss of a major contract with Kwik Save. 20-Apr-2006 Harvestime, the Walsall-based bakery, has been acquired by Canadian Maple Leaf Bakery UK, securing the future of 250 jobs. 28-Mar-2006 Allied Bakeries is closing its bakery in Woodley, Reading, with the loss of the remaining 72 jobs. 20-Mar-2006 British Bakeries is planning to create 200 jobs at the recently-acquired former Harvestime bakery in Thurmaston, Leicester, in order to gradually increase production at the site. 10-Mar-2006 Giles Foods, the Milton Keynes-based savoury products bakery with 110 staff, has been acquired by Food Investment Group, and FIG has also acquired Thomas Foods of Sheffield. 08-Feb-2006 British Bakeries has bought part of the former Harvestime bakery in Thurmaston, Leicester, out of administration, and plans to restart production soon. 07-Feb-2006 Sweetmans Select Savouries, the Swansea-based bakery, has been bought out of administration by Cleary Foods Group for undisclosed terms, saving more than 40 jobs. 28-Nov-2005 Warburtons is to create up to 140 jobs at its new £10m bakery, which is due to open at the former Rathbones site in Rogerstone, South Wales, in July. 07-Nov-2005 Duchy Originals Foods is to set up an organic pastries bakery in Launceston next April, with the creation of an initial ten jobs. 27-Oct-2005 Warburtons is to employ 100 workers at a bakery in Stockton when it becomes fully operational in December, following a £6.5m investment at the site. 27-Sep-2005 Greencore is planning to shed up to 225 of the 900 jobs at its two pizza factories at the Deeside Industrial Park, while 20 will be lost at its Runcorn distribution centre, five at the Salford bakery and 15 at head office. 09-Aug-2005 KPMG has sold former Rathbones bakeries in Walsall, Leicester and Peterborough, as well as a Carlisle distribution centre, to two former directors operating under the name of Harvestime, securing the future of about 1,000 jobs. 16-May-2005 KPMG has announced that undisclosed buyers have been found for the Rathbones bakery sites in Wigan, Wakefield, Middlesbrough, Walsall, Leicester and Peterborough. 27-Apr-2005 BakeMark UK is to close its bakery in Milton Keynes in May, with the loss of almost 100 jobs, although some staff may relocate to its factory on Merseyside. 27-Apr-2005 Warburtons is seeking permission to refurbish its recently-acquired bakery in Stockton, before bringing it back into production. 25-Apr-2005 Warburtons is planning to spend a further £250m expanding its bakery operations across the country over the next five years, with a particular emphasis on the south and south west. 21-Feb-2005 Warburtons has acquired the Rathbones bakery site in Stockton for undisclosed terms, and will spend the next nine months refurbishing the plant. 17-Jan-2005 IAWS has acquired Groupe Hubert, the French bakery products supplier, from Apax Partners for £90m. 14-Dec-2004 Warburtons has confirmed plans to build a £60m bakery in Wakefield by June 2005, with the creation of 200 jobs. 16-Aug-2004 Manor Bakeries is to invest £45m in the expansion of its cake manufacturing operations over the next three years, with the creation of 300 jobs at its bakery in Barnsley. 02-Aug-2004 Warburtons has awarded a £2m contract to Hargreaves Contracting to refurbish its bakery at Wednesbury. 22-Jul-2004 Moray Council is to consider plans from Walkers Shortbread to set up a new bakery facility at its site in Elgin, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 13-Jul-2004 Maple Leaf Bakery is setting up a new £2m bakery at Lillyhall, near Workington, with the creation of about 70 jobs. 07-Jun-2004 Manor Bakeries is to close its bakery in Eastleigh with the loss of 423 jobs, while 238 of the 550 jobs at its bakery in Moreton on the Wirrall will also be lost. 20-May-2004 Rathbones Bakeries is to close its bakery in Peterborough in July with the loss of 172 jobs. 23-Apr-2004 Greencore is to sell Rathbones Bakeries, the operator of eight UK bakeries, to Finedon Mill for £20m. 05-Apr-2004 Greggs of Yorkshire has announced plans for a £4.5m expansion at its bakery in Leeds by August, with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 02-Feb-2004 Warburtons is to shed 40 of the 399 jobs at its bakery in Wednesbury following a recent fire, and work will start on rebuilding the site over the next few weeks. 20-Jan-2004 Inter Link Foods has acquired Hoppers, the Kent-based bakery with 110 staff, for £5m. 14-Jan-2004 Yorkshire Cottage Bakeries has acquired Bakebest, the Manchester-based bakery with 100 staff, for undisclosed terms. 15-Dec-2003 United Central Bakeries has acquired Fords the Bakers, the Scottish retail baker with 150 staff at Prestonpans, from Lyndale Foods for £2m. 12-Dec-2003 Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity has invested £2m in Enterprise Food Group, to fund the expansion of its Scottish bakery operations. 17-Oct-2003 Tindale & Stanton, the Durham-based wholesale bakery chain with more than 300 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms. 28-May-2003 Sweetmans, the operator of 26 shops and three bakeries across South Wales, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, and is now planning to open eight new shops over the next two years. 10-Apr-2003 Bako North Western has acquired the bakery sundries business of John Morley's of Congleton for undisclosed terms. 28-Jan-2003 Bako is investing £1m in a new freezer warehouse for its bakery and food distribution business in Preston. 18-Nov-2002 Fletchers Fine Food, the Hull-based bakery with nine shops, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 160 jobs. 12-Nov-2002 Crantock Bakery, the Newquay-based bakery with 77 staff, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers. 31-Oct-2002 Warburtons is to open a 130,000 sq ft bakery in Enfield, with the creation of about 300 jobs. 19-Sep-2002 The McIntosh of Dyce bakery in Aberdeen has shed 70 jobs following its recent acquisition by Lanarkshire-based bakers Bell. 27-Aug-2002 Mountstevens is to cease trading with the loss of 800 jobs at its Bristol head office and bakery shops throughout the south-west. 26-Jul-2002 Avana Bakeries is to create 177 jobs at its bakery in Newport, having won a new contract to supply Christmas Cakes to Marks & Spencer. 05-Jul-2002 McIntosh of Dyce has sold its bakery business to Bell Bakers of Shotts for undisclosed terms, saving 75 jobs. 20-May-2002 Warrens of St Just has acquired the Mayflower bakery in Plymouth, which will involve the transfer of 100 staff. 17-May-2002 Brays Bakery has closed its Leeds bakery with the loss of 140 jobs. 15-Apr-2002 British Bakeries is acquiring the Ormeau bread bakery in south Belfast, which has 400 staff, for undisclosed terms. 01-Mar-2002 Aldreds is building a new £2m bakery at the Manners Industrial Estate in Ilkeston, which will involve the creation of 30 new jobs and the relocation of up to 64. 18-Feb-2002 Hazlewood Foods is planning to shed up to 100 jobs at its bakery in Hull. 18-Jan-2002 Warburtons is to invest £1m at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne bakery this year, including new equipment, new delivery vehicles and more training for the 300 staff. 17-Jan-2002 Cox Radcliffe has sold its Merseyside bakery interests to Preston-based Bako for £3m, in order to focus on supplying the takeaway and restaurant sectors. 18-Oct-2001 Genesis Breads of the World is planning to invest £1m in the expansion of its bakery in Londonderry, with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 10-Oct-2001 British Bakeries is reviewing its long-term operational plans in Scotland, prompting concern that the work at its Ayr bakery could be transferred to Glasgow with the loss of 300 jobs. 17-Jul-2001 Inter Link Foods has taken up its longstanding option to buy the William Lusty bakery from Bank of Scotland for £0.4m. 03-Jul-2001 Speedibake is planning to close its bakery in Northampton with the loss of 250 jobs, in order to transfer production to other sites in Bradford and Wakefield. 13-Jun-2001 Warburtons is investing a further £0.9m in new equipment for its Eastwood bakery in Nottinghamshire, including an automated ingredient feeder system and an extra bagging machine. 11-Jun-2001 Aunt Mollies Foods is to invest £1.9m in the expansion of its bakery in west Belfast, with the creation of 60 jobs over the next three years. 14-May-2001 H Fletcher & Son, the Hull-based bakery and meat processing group, has been acquired by a local businessman for undisclosed terms, saving 150 jobs. 22-Mar-2001 IAWS is investing £24m in a joint venture with Tim Hortons to set up a new factory in Canada to produce Cuisine de France bakery products. 07-Mar-2001 Unilever is in negotiations to sell its US bakery business and a number of European brands, in order to raise up to £1.3bn and comply with the regulatory conditions for its recent acquisition of Bestfoods. 22-Jan-2001 H Fletcher & Son, the Hull-based bakery and cooked meats company with 150 employees, has been put up for sale. 10-Jan-2001 Hazlewood Foods is to open a 230,000 sq ft bakery in Hull early next year, in order to supply major retailers across Europe. 30-Oct-2000 WD Irwin & Sons is planning to invest £3.4m at its bakery in Portadown with the creation of about 50 jobs. 27-Oct-2000 Unilever has put the recently-acquired US bakery division of Bestfoods up for sale, which could raise up to $2bn. 17-Oct-2000 Inter Link Foods is to build a new bakery in Blackburn, with the creation of up to 150 jobs over the next two years. 12-Sep-2000 Bakery Services is planning to expand across the north and midlands following the acquisition of Don Miller's franchised bakeries. 21-Jul-2000 Unilever is to sell European Bakery Supplies Business to CSM of the Netherlands for £440m, and is now said be looking to sell the recently-acquired Bestfoods consumer bakery division. 12-Jul-2000 Allied Bakeries is to close its bakery in Ipswich over the next 12 months, with the loss of 220 jobs. 25-May-2000 Diageo is in discussions to acquire the bakery business of Bestfoods, as part of the US company's defence against Unilever's takeover approach. 23-May-2000 Unilever is considering plans to sell off its European bakery division, having received a number of expressions of interest for the business. 27-Mar-2000 Kerry Group has sold its DCA bakery business in the US and Canada to Pillsbury, the Diageo subsidiary, for £62m. 18-Feb-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to open a new sandwich factory in Worksop and a new bakery in Hull. 06-Dec-1999 Allied Bakeries is to close its Northfield bakery in Aberdeen with the loss of 50 jobs, and the site will be used as a depot and field sales operation. 01-Dec-1999 Carriages Continental Breads has moved production to a new bakery in Bradford, in order to increase output by five-fold and sell to delicatessens across the north of England. 24-Nov-1999 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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