Muffin makers' jobs are saved
Workers at a bakery facing a uncertain future after it went into administration have been told their jobs are safe. Sunfresh Bakers, famous for its oven bottom muffins, has risen again as Taylors the Bakers, safeguarding 140 jobs.
Workers at a bakery facing a uncertain future after it went into administration have been told their jobs are safe.
Sunfresh Bakers, famous for its oven bottom muffins, has risen again as Taylors the Bakers, safeguarding 140 jobs.
Director Mark Taylor – who ran the firm before it was put into administration with his brother Stephen – said: "We have worked extremely hard to secure the continuity of supply from suppliers. The company has the support of its major supermarket customers going forward who want to continue to purchase the quality of product and service that was synonymous with Sunfresh Bakers and will continue with Taylors the Bakers, which is the name of the new business going forward.
"We are proud to have saved 140 jobs and this strong dedicated workforce are relieved that all the speculation about jobs and the future of the business is over and for them now it's business as usual."
Mr Taylor said the company, of Boodle Street, Ashton, had had to make 30 workers redundant five or six weeks ago due to a downturn in trade, prior to it going into administration under the Manchester office of insolvency expert MCR.
But he is delighted the remaining jobs have now been secured.
The firm produces more than 40 million oven bottom muffins a year. It has been based in Ashton for over 20 years after it was founded 30 years ago in Openshaw, Manchester by Stan Taylor, the father of Mark and Stephen.
It supplies supermarkets, schools, hospitals and sandwich shops across the country.
Oven bottom muffins date from Victorian times, when at the end of the baking day bakers flattened remaining dough into small rounds and flipped them over on the bottom of the oven, hence their name.
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