A thriving Newcastle bakery business has just launched its latest new store in Newcastle city centre.Newburn-based North East Bakery has opened its new Nichols shop in Eldon Square Newcastle.
The store opening means the company, founded five years ago, now has 13 shops across the North East, and employs a local workforce of over 140. The new Newcastle shop follows the successful launch of Durham’s Nichols store in May.
The upmarket Nichols stores offer a contemporary range of modern hot food-to-go, featuring plenty of traditional favourites – but refreshed with a modern twist. Best-sellers include made-to-order breakfast stotties, freshly made hot carvery sandwiches, luxury sandwiches and salads and the company’s popular pies.
“The Nichols stores offer something different: quality food – much of it locally sourced – at a reasonable price in modern surroundings. We’ve seen that in the success of the new Durham store which has been a real hit with customers who like the combination of competitive pricing, great food and stylish surroundings,” says managing director and If we can, you can member Greg Phillips, 30, one of the company’s founders.
Produce is sourced from regional and UK farmers, producers and suppliers wherever possible. “It’s very exciting to be opening our new Nichols store in Newcastle, which is where the business is based and where I began my own career in the food industry.”
After graduating from Newcastle University with a degree in business management, Greg joined his uncle’s Newcastle-based sandwich business and discovered an appetite for the bakery trade, driving up sales significantly and getting heavily involved in the business.
The current North East Young Business Person of the Year, Greg has overseen a period of sustained expansion since the business was established in 2004. The company – originally formed from the buyout of the Chapel Bakery and Patisserie - is now turning over £3.4 million a year and is actively seeking new locations for shops.
In the latest recognition of his business drive, Greg was recently named a regional winner in the Ernst and Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year award. He will compete for the national title at the competition’s UK final in October.
A key factor in North East Bakery’s growth has been the acquisition of the company’s 20,000 sq ft purpose-built bakery premises at Newburn where all its products are baked. In addition to its highly successful shops, North East Bakery has an expanding wholesale customer base including restaurants, sandwich shops, catering groups and foodservice distributors.
The business also operates a fleet of mobile catering vans which visit businesses across the North East providing food for workers.
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