Soreen

Soreen is a brand of malt loaf and is owned by Mark and David Samworth,[1] a food manufacturing company based in Leicestershire.

The creator of Soreen, John Rahbek Sorensen, arrived in England in 1920.[2] He purchased a property in Manchester two years before establishing John Sorensen Bakery Equipment & Co. Over the course of the next several years, he produced and sold his own baked goods.[2]

In 2013, the company's revenue grew 20% to £30M,[3] and in 2014 the Soreen brand was acquired from the McCambridge Group by the Samworth Brothers for an undisclosed sum.[4] As of December 2018, the company employs 126 at its Manchester factory, and its products are consumed by roughly 28.5% of households in the UK.[5] They distribute 1.5 million loaves per week.[6] In recent years the company has developed additional flavours of loaf including banana, strawberry, salted caramel and others.

References

  1. Ginsters' £100,000 government donation during 'pasty tax' – British Baker bakeryinfo.co.uk, retrieved 2018-03-18^
  2. Our History Soreen.com, retrieved 2017-12-10^
  3. Shelina Begum. Soreen's sales leap 20 per cent men, February 27, 2014^
  4. Chilled food firm Samworth Brothers buys Soreen foodmanufacture.co.uk^
  5. Luke Hopkins. Soreen | Samworth Brothers www.samworthbrothers.co.uk, June 19, 2018^
  6. How our loaves are made Soreen^