Founder buys back his bakery cleaning firm
Published Date:
06 October 2008
A father and son team has risen to the top at a leading commercial baking equipment cleaning company in Skelmersdale following a multi-million pound management buy-out.
Derrick and Shaun Hughes have purchased Cleanbake Ltd with help from a £2m package from The Co-operative Bank in Preston.
Derrick, 73, becomes chairman of the company he established 18 years ago in Preston.
Shaun, 48, has joined Cleanbake as operations director after previously working for 11 years with BAE Systems following his 16 years as a navigator in the RAF.
Cleanbake specialises in the cleaning, refurbishment and recoating of baking pans, trays and racks for supermarkets, bakeries and plant bakeries.
Clients include Warburtons, Asda, Morrisons and Rathbones.
The Cleanbake site is the largest operation of its kind in Europe, with 53 staff handling over one million items per year.
The full article contains 146 words and appears in Wigan Evening Post newspaper.
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Last Updated:
27 October 2008 3:38 PM
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Source:
Wigan Evening Post
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Location:
Wigan
