STORY: £38 MILLION INVESTMENT IN NEW CUTTING-EDGE BAKERY
McDonald’s UK & Ireland and Guenther Bakeries UK Limited have today opened a new bakery in Coventry which will create fresh buns exclusively for McDonald’s iconic burgers.
The brand-new site reflects a £38 million investment by Guenther and McDonald’s. This includes a £20 million investment in cutting-edge technology, a crucial factor in enabling the facility to bake up to 1.1 million buns a day which places it amongst the fastest production lines in Europe.
Guenther is a long-standing partner of McDonald’s and has supplied its restaurants with buns for over 18 years, both in the UK and Irish market and globally. The new bakery in Coventry, the company’s sixth European site, will create 72,000 buns an hour solely for McDonald’s restaurants.
All buns baked at the site will be delivered fresh and used as key components for some of McDonald’s most famous menu items, including the Cheeseburger, and soon to include the Big Mac® and Quarter Pounder.
The new bakery will create up to 90 jobs for local people, with 85% of the staff recruited for the site living locally, and the potential for further new roles in future.
Beth Hart, Vice President, Supply Chain at McDonald’s UK & Ireland, said: “The opening of our new bakery in Coventry is a brilliant moment for our business and will help us to better serve our customers with quality buns for their favourite burgers. At McDonald’s, we’re proud of the longstanding relationships we have with our suppliers like Guenther Bakeries and investing in innovation like the new site in Coventry is an excellent example of the exciting work we’re achieving together.”
Dale Tremblay, Global President & CEO at C.H. Guenther & Son, said: “We’ve been supplying fresh, quality buns to McDonald’s restaurants across the country since 2005, and today’s opening marks our continued commitment to delivering this service. We’re incredibly proud to be bringing such significant investment to Coventry, and to be opening a bakery that boasts one of the fastest production lines in the whole of Europe.”
