British Bakeries is a part of Rank Hovis, the UK's largest flour milling business, itself a division of Rank Hovis McDougall or RHM Group One Ltd. The core business of British Bakeries is wrapped sliced bread, both branded and retailer own-label, and it supplies about a third of the UK's plant bread; approximately 16 million loaves each week. The company also produces speciality bread, rolls and baps and morning goods. There are around 450 different types of bread in its product range and a little fewer than 900 varieties of morning goods.
The principal British Bakeries brand is Hovis. Hovis used to be a dedicated wholemeal/wheatgerm brand but has now become the umbrella brand for most of the British Bakeries' products such that the old Granary brand, signifying a malted wheat bread, is now tagged as Hovis Granary. Hovis-branded products run with the strapline Get something good inside'
The bakery category is the seventh largest in the UK grocery sector, and includes bread,......
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