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OCTOBER 2020

TOP LONDON WHOLESALE BAKERY BRANCHES OUT 

Leading wholesale bakery - Frankonia the Bread House - is in the process of transforming its business with a dual-pronged approach to its sales model. Since lockdown put a sudden halt on wholesale orders, it is augmenting the business by seeking retail opportunities as well as retaining its role as one of the foremost wholesale bread suppliers to the hospitality industry.

In addition to opening a shop at its bakery in Surbiton, Surrey, the brand has taken a bakery concession within the Farm Shop of Planters Garden Centre at Hurst Green, East Sussex, and is in discussion with a number of other retail outlets as well as looking for its own premises.  This follows hot on the heels of the bakery running a highly successful pop up kiosk on Hastings Pier this summer. 

Owner Birgit Gunz, had seen her highly successful business potentially destroyed within days of the Government announcing lockdown in March this year, but she has turned the business around and is now looking to supply a raft of other outlets.  

"The London side of our business is now slowly starting to recover, but of course the current hospitality industry 10 p.m. curfew hasn't helped." says Birgit Gunz, "Having started home deliveries in the vicinity of our Surbiton bakery, I've really enjoyed having more interaction with our consumers.  I've long had strong connections with East Sussex and spend a great deal of time there, so it made sound commercial sense to develop my business down and along the route from London to Hastings.  But I am also planning to expand our delivery service nationally." She adds.

Frankonia's sourdough breads, pretzels, croissants, biscuits, cakes and muffins (and other bakery products) have proved a great hit with visitors to Hastings Pier, the Planters Garden Centre on the A21, as well as the local Surbiton community.

Frankonia's customers include such esteemed names as The House of Lords, The House of Commons, The Ritz Hotel, The Savoy and the London Hilton Park Lane.  The company also supplies many top London private clubs and caterers.

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For further information, high res images or to arrange to interview Birgit Gunz please contact Alison Jee at alison@alisonjee.co.uk or on 020 8744 0744