A UK bakery has entered administration after over 20 years of supplying tray bakes and different candy treats to bakeries and retailers in Britain.
(Inventory picture) A cake manufacturing unit in England has entered administration (Picture: Getty)
A well known UK cake manufacturing unit has plunged into administration. The manufacturing unit had beforehand entered administration 10 years in the past and was purchased out. Nonetheless, the agency that purchased it has now additionally entered administration. Extra Meals Ltd was bought by Sussex Bakes in 2017, with the latter just lately coming into administration, in response to an official discover within the London Gazette as we speak. The enterprise was based in Chichester, West Sussex, in 2003 and has been supplying traybakes and different baked items to bakeries and main retailers since.
It operates a 28,000 sq ft “state-of-the-art” facility that employs 120 folks. The manufacturing unit provides a variety of Extra Meals and Sussex Bakes branded merchandise, but additionally makes own-label baked items for well-known excessive road retailers, espresso chains, restaurant teams and wholesalers. Its providing consists of muffins, cookies (baked and unbaked), meringues, tarts, traybakes and bespoke seasonal merchandise made for holidays corresponding to Christmas and Easter.
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The discover in The Gazette as we speak confirmed that Sussex Bakes Ltd, buying and selling as Extra Meals, entered administration on Might 11. This can be a course of whereby an bancrupt firm will get an out of doors occasion to handle it with the intention of saving all or a part of the enterprise.
It provides the corporate respiratory house and permits it to proceed to function whereas it tries to show issues round. It additionally protects it from motion by collectors.
Sussex Bakes Ltd has not shared an announcement about coming into administration. The corporate has been approached by the Each day Specific for remark.
The official discover confirms that David Kemp and Richard Hunt, each of Exigen Group Restricted in London, have been appointed as joint directors of the corporate.
Extra Meals Ltd was purchased by Sussex Bakes instantly after coming into administration in 2017 as a part of a ‘going concern sale’. On the time, all 150 manufacturing unit jobs have been saved.
The enterprise began as Upstairs Downstairs, a espresso store that served scones, muffins and different baked items to locals after it was based by Caron Howe and a detailed pal. It rapidly proved common, and different companies got here to the espresso store for provides of baked items.
This ultimately led to the sale of the cafe facet of the enterprise, and a focus on wholesale provide adopted.
The corporate’s web site reads: “We proudly produce award-winning, premium handmade muffins and indulgent treats, delivering each branded and personal label ranges throughout the retail and meals service sectors.”
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