Facts and Figures
Established - 1895
Annual Turnover - circa £90 million
Number of Business Units - Four
Locations - Barnsley, London, Manchester and Sheffield
Number of Employees - 990
Number of SKU's - over 430 different SKU's
Market Size - over £2 Billion annually
Number of market sectors we operate in - 9
Major shareholder - Vision Capital (to find out more about our owners click this link
http://www.visioncapital.com)
Fun Facts:
LBD uses about 1500 tonnes of flour per year - thats the equivalent of the total weight of Stonehenge - including the visitors!
This year alone Fletchers have already sold in the region of 3 million loaves of bread - that comes to a hefty 1330 tonnes!
Kara uses half a million bun and roll bags every week or, put another way, 26 million in a year - thats enough for every person in Saudi Arabia to have a bag each!
Grain D'Or uses 1100 tonnes of butter each year - thats the equivalent of all the space dust that estimated to fall to earth each year!
Our overall flour usage across the Group is over 38000 tonnes per year - a weight thats equivalent to the Great Siphnx at Giza, Egypt!