British Society of Baking

💡 BSB Chairman Spotlight: Stephen Ville 💡 🎤 How did you start in the baking industry?   I graduated from University of Sussex and joined Rank Hovis as Production Management Trainee, spending 6 years flour milling and working my way up to Mill Manager at the Ramsgate Mill. I then gained an MBA at London Business School before joining Allied Bakeries (ABF) as General Manager of the plant bakery in Orpington, where they made sliced bread and rolls for own label and the Allinson and Kingsmill brands.    🎤 Bravest moment of your career?   There are 2 notable ones - buying The Bread Roll Company out of Receivership with support from my wife, building the business up by creating 12 regional depots supplying fresh bread, rolls, pastries, cakes etc to the food service market. Then being brave enough to realise we needed a change of business model, driven by the recession, meaning a focus change to supermarket own label and frozen food service. Bringing on new customers including Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Budgens, Ocado, Brakes, Bidvest, Greencore and Mitchell & Butler.   🎤 Most notable product launches?   On the retailer side, launching TTD Brioche Burger bun and TTD sourdough with Sainsburys. On the food service front speciality rolls and breads supplied to royalty at Royal Ascot, as well as a market leading vegan burger bun to Brakes.   🎤 What are your key goals for the BSB? 1. Continue successful conferences by inviting interesting and inspiring high-quality speakers to the bi-annual conferences. 2. Increase BSB members and delegate numbers to conferences. 3. Improve BSB profile via website, LinkedIn, and industry contacts.  4. Draw up a plan on how best to use the company sponsorship money to support young bakers in the industry.

There were lots of people involved in making our Autumn #conference such a #success yesterday. We would like to say a big #thankyou to our session chairs Ian Dobbie and Hannah Sibley for keeping the agenda on track!

Another great #conference yesterday! A big thank you to our speakers for their insightful presentations: Mike Adams, BSc (Hons) - Head of Product Innovation at Campden BRI Helen Bowyer - Commercial Director of The Compleat Food Group Frank Bird - CEO of Hills Biscuits Rhiain Gordon - Owner and Director of Babyfaced Baker Steve Magnall - Owner and CEO of Two Magpies Bakery Emilio Saklambanakis - Regional Marketing Manager at Oterra

📣 Have you booked your place at the BSB Autumn #conference? 📣 We still have a few spaces remaining for the #dinner and conference package! 🥂 A fantastic opportunity to #network with others in the #bakingindustry 🍞

Who will be joining us at our Autumn Conference next month? 📆 9th & 10th October 2024 📍 Ardencote Hotel, Country Club & Spa, CV35 8LT Booking is now available on the BSB website via the following link..... https://lnkd.in/enfn4gj4

Thank you to everyone who attended our annual golf day and well done to the winners! 👏 ⛳ Team Competition: 1st - Paul Farrow, Bobby Cox, Josh Farrow, Cameron McNally (91 points) 2nd - Lewis Burgess, Sander Van Vugt, Ben Hutchinson, Ghost Scorer (89 points) ⛳ Individual Competition: 1st - Bobby Cox (40 points) winning the Visitors Rose Bowl 2nd - Jonny Barker (39 points) 3rd - Ben Hutchinson (38 points) winning the BSB Trophy Dave Berry (34 points) winning the Veterans Trophy ⛳ Nearest to the pin 8th hole - David Overton ⛳ Nearest to the pin 15th hole - David Hillard ⛳ Longest drive 17th hole - Ben Hutchinson ⛳ ACE Golf Challenge 3rd hole - Sat Hanspal

A few photos from our BSB Dinner last week, with Aaron James keeping us entertained! #dinner #networking #bakingindustry #bakery #golfday

Thank you to everyone who attended our spring conference last week. A special thanks to our fantastic speakers from Delifrance, IFF, Lidl, Just Love, Wildfarmed, Bakels, McGhees Bakery, Hovis and BakeTran! #bakery #conference #networking

British Society of Baking Golf Day 2024 organised by Keith Houliston ⛳ Video highlights with ACE Golf Challenge! #golfday #golfchallenge