A business that makes home baking products for clients such as Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose and Aldi is creating 35 new jobs after investing in new, bigger premises.
Food Innovations Baking Group – which supplies food and non-food baking products under licence, private label and own brand – has invested £3 million bringing together nine production units into a single new facility on Panattoni Park in Eastwood, Notts.
As well as making own label products for big supermarkets, the business makes products under its own brands including The Cake Professional, M&B Sugar Paste, Perfect Pastry and Doric Cake Crafts.
It also makes Love Hearts Cupcake Kit, Drumstick Squashies Cupcake Kit and Love Hearts Shortbread Biscuit Kit under a licence with sweet maker Swizzels Matlow.
The investment has created a number of additional dedicated lines and helped it expand its product development kitchen to give it more capacity to bring new baking kits and other products to market.
Backed by Ardenton Capital, the company now wants to recruit 10 technical and product development staff, with a further 25 roles available in production, ranging from general/skilled operatives to line and area leaders.
Training and development will be offered to new starters, with progression routes in place across the group’s rapidly growing three 海角视频 sites.
Jag Sanghera, HR manager at Food Innovations Baking Group’s Nottingham site, said: “Demand for our range of products has really accelerated during Covid-19 and this prompted the need for a purpose-built central facility in Nottinghamshire that will give us the platform for the next twenty years.
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“We have moved from nine individual units to one central site, where all the administration, manufacturing and R&D work is carried out under one roof and benefits from state-of-the-art production space.
“Better still we are creating 35 jobs, which comes at a great time for the people of Nottingham who may be considering their career prospects following the pandemic.
“We are looking for anyone with a desire to move into food manufacturing and have a passion to learn and take on new ideas.
“Training is provided and we also offer lots of softer benefits, such as ice creams when it is hot and pizzas when volumes are met.
“We have earned a well-deserved reputation for innovation and technical excellence, and this has led to use being the ‘go to’ provider for home backing products in the 海角视频.
“There is rapid expansion across the group and our Nottingham facility is going to be crucial to realising this – we now just need local people to join us on the journey.”
Food Innovations Baking Group supplies everything from cake mixes and kits to food colourings and flavourings, cupcake cases and cake boards, frostings, sugar paste, marzipan, sprinkles and bagged cake confectionery.
Its other sites are in Burnley and Chapel-en-le-Frith and Nottingham give and it has customers in food service and wholesale, plant bakers, specialist sugar craft, independent retailers and some of the 海角视频’s largest supermarkets.