Who We Are
We Love Baking
Our approach to baking is very simple – we bring together the best elements of traditional baking skills and modern food trends to create stunning breads and sweet bakery products.
We hand-craft our breads wherever possible to add that personal touch and to keep real bread making skills alive. We only use the best raw ingredients, carefully sourcing our key ingredients, like flour from family millers and rapeseed oil from local farmers. We love what we do and we like to think that you can taste that in our products.
See Our Baked Breads
Real bread
making skills
Innovation and creativity are at the heart of our business and having the freedom to create almost whatever we want is what gets us out of bed in the morning.
We love being different
Some bakeries focus on producing huge quantities of the same product. Some bakeries focus on producing the cheapest product and some bakeries focus on making everything by machine. We like to be different. By using bakers instead of machines, we are more flexible and we love nothing more than coming up with a new idea and then watching it grow.
Hand crafted
We Love British Ingredients
Wherever we can, we support British farmers. Our key ingredients like flour and oil, all come from Red Tractor assured farms.
We Support British Farms
Wherever we can, we support British farmers. Our key ingredients like flour and oil, all come from Red Tractor assured farms.
We use Heygates Flour
Everything we produce is Red Tractor certified from start to finish, field to plate, including our core ingredient, Heygates flour. Their wonderful award winning British flours are the heart and soul of our artisan breads.
We love our people
We take bread making very seriously but ourselves less so. We run a very relaxed office and you won’t find anyone wearing a suit. Many of our team have worked here from day one and that’s testament to the very friendly family atmosphere. When we say we’re a family we really mean it. We have several generations of various families working in different departments within the business. We think it’s a great place to work and we love to show off our bakery to those customers who are kind enough to pop down and visit us in sunny Margate.
Meet the team
We’re a
family
Many of our team have worked here from day one and that’s testament to the very friendly family atmosphere.
We love our customers
Ultimately, we’re here to support our customers, whether that be the wholesaler or the chef, we’re happy to help. We’ll always pull out all the stops. We’re so confident in the quality of our products that we think the best way to experience our breads is to eat them. Therefore, we’re always sending out free samples to customers up and down the country so that they can experience our breads first hand. We do everything we can to showcase our products in this brochure and on the website, but you can’t beat eating the real thing. Trust us, we eat it every day.
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Quality products
We Meet BRC Global Standards
Because our entire organisation operates to the BRC Global Standard, striving for excellence in every direction, our end products are as good as they possibly can be… completely and totally delicious!
Download our BRC certificationMeet the Team
The next best thing to eating bread is talking about it. If you’d like to try some of our products or just discuss how they’re made, please pick up the phone to one of our friendly team.
What a team
Simon Cannell
Managing Director
Favourite bread: Pugliese
Where Charlie’s dream was to a chocolate factory, Simon’s dream was to run an artisan bakery. He’s Speciality Breads’ Willy Wonka (but with slightly better dress sense – he thinks!)
Steve Shingleton
Sales Director
Favourite bread: Pugliese
Slow proving is at the heart of many of our great breads and Steve has been proving himself for many years as a great Sales Director. His passion for bread is only surpassed by his passion for building great relationships with our customers.
Neil Smith
National Accounts Development Chef
Favourite bread: Small white dough piece
Neil is our resident chef. A really bubbly character with more bounce than a bouncy thing.
Les Romney
UK Sales Manager
Favourite bread: Sourdough & onion roll
As well as being our UK Sales Manager, Les looks after the Midlands. Les has a watching brief for emerging food trends and is keen to instigate development and new ideas.
David Willson
Southern Regional Sales Manager
Favourite bread: Ciabatta
David looks after the sunnier parts of the UK even including the odd trip to the Channel Islands. A big bread fan as well as a keen cricket coach
Kevin Hall
Scotland Regional Sales Manager
Favourite bread: Rustic Baguette
Kevin is our most northerly sales manager. A passionate foodie, weekend cyclist and dog walker.
Paul Johnston
Ireland Regional Sales Manager
Favourite bread: Ciapanini
Paul is our charismatic Irishman looking after all of our business on the island. A nice a chap as you’ll ever meet.
Join our team
We are always looking for good new candidates to join our team. Get in touch to tell us about your specific skills and the types of roles you would be interested in and we will get back to you to discuss possible opportunities.
careers@specialitybreads.co.uk