Firm closing

[NoTailT]

That's a sorry piece of news.

[SleepyJoe]

Because after massive price increases force a key production facility into closure, someone with the ability to act will belatedly produce a solution to a problem that has just gone post-critical?

[finlo]

I suspect it will also be a death knell for Laxey flour mill.

[Kopek]

I think Laxey Mills use mostly Manx grown grain? Not affected by world price increases?

[Numbnuts]

2 minutes ago, finlo said:

I suspect it will also be a death knell for Laxey flour mill.

Sadly I think your right . They lose money anyway and RB must be their biggest contract.

Edited April 2, 2022 by Numbnuts

[TheTeapot]

1 minute ago, finlo said:

I suspect it will also be a death knell for Laxey flour mill.

If the management there and the farmers who supply it had any sense they'd be growing and milling more wheat this year than ever before

[SleepyJoe]

Firm aspires to be zero energy bakery
https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2013/10/24/Green-baking-Zero-energy-use-the-future-goal

[Non-Believer]

1 minute ago, Kopek said:

I think Laxey Mills use mostly Manx grown grain? Not affected by world price increases?

Their product was always cited as expensive? Do they still post an annual loss too or have they turned it around?

[cissolt]

1 minute ago, Numbnuts said:

Sadly I think your right . They lose money anyway and RB must be their biggest contract.

Yes I tend to agree. The potential loss of two Manx institutions.  I fear government will act too late, as they always do, and many more businesses will go to the wall.

[SleepyJoe]

Sustainable Bond project!

[Amadeus]

I often wondered how they managed to compete. Their bread was among the most expensive in the supermarket and seemingly relied on Buy Local goodwill. Next to it was cheap stuff from the UK for as little as 40p a loaf, when RB was 1.50 or more. Looked like a tough business to be in. 

[finlo]

3 minutes ago, Kopek said:

I think Laxey Mills use mostly Manx grown grain? Not affected by world price increases?

And who will they be supplying all this flour to?

[yorik]

I'm sure I'd heard that M&S in-store bakery used RB dough. So further knock on there possibly

[Numbnuts]

Like I've said before its early days yet for the minimum wage , gas and electric , NI and all the other increases  to make they mark. Difficult times ahead. 

Edited April 2, 2022 by Numbnuts

[Kopek]

I thought M&S even imported their ready made sandwiches? Do they really have an instore bakery?