Move to Leeds spells £1M sweet success
18 May 2012
A sweet manufacturing company which moved to Leeds in February this year with help from Leeds City Council is on course to achieve 800 per cent growth in turnover. Candy Makers Ltd has already won large contracts to supply wholesale and retail customers with its sugar-free sweets and plans to recruit up to six new
Growing Leeds pancake firm create new jobs with council support
14 December 2011
Businesses in Leeds are being urged to take advantage of grants available under Leeds City Council’s business growth fund to support capital investment and job creation.
£500K Investment for Growing Leeds Pancake Firm
17 October 2011
A pancake business launched by two university colleagues has secured £500,000 of investment that has enabled a move to a new manufacturing and distribution headquarters in Leeds. Neil Tipping (31) and Jon White (30) met 11 years ago while on the same degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University and opened enjays in 2005 from a
Exquisite Taste of £1.7M Success
11 July 2011
Chartered accountant Viv Parry had a dream of quitting the service sector and getting into manufacturing, coupled with a lifelong passion for quality home baking. The dream came true when she paid £20,000 for the assets of a small Leeds bakery and seven years on Viv and her 30 colleagues at Exquisite Hand Made Cakes
Bagel Nash continue retail expansion as sales near £5 million
21 January 2011
A two‐year consolidation period has paid handsome dividends for the UK’s leading independent bagel baker and retailer, Leeds‐based Bagel Nash, which is now producing over a million bagels a month. In 2008 the company launched five new retail outlets in six months, then, in the face of the recession called a halt on expansion in
Room For A New Brew In Leeds
12 May 2008
While Yorkshire now boasts more breweries than any other UK region -more than 70 compared to 16 in the early 1970s – its principal city’s own independent brewery only arrived on the scene last year. With sales already passing 12,000 pints a week through pubs in and around Leeds; plans to speedily launch two pubs
US Bagel Billionaire Sees The Light In Leeds
12 September 2006
In a business lifetime devoted to the ubiquitous snack New Yorker Rob Cagan has been responsible for delivering some three billion bagels to connoisseurs of the delicacy with the hole in the middle. Now he has relocated to Leeds to join the UK’s fastest growing snack business, Bagel Nash and launch the firm’s latest outlet
Yorkshire Bagels Take London By Storm
10 August 2006
Bagels baked to a secret recipe in deepest Yorkshire are taking London by storm. Leeds-based Bagel Nash first London outlet and the firm’s first franchised branch, launched in Shaftesbury Avenue last month and sales have exceeded all expectations. As a result, extra shipments of bagels are now travelling down the M1 on a daily basis