With 20 locations in the UK, we’re the people who make top-10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill, as well as Burgen, Allinson, Sunblest and selected customer brand bakery goods. Famous for our wholesome white, wholemeal and seeded breads, we offer delicious rolls, pancakes, crumpets, muffins, hot cross buns, wraps and other delicious bakery products for all the family.

Our people provide great products and services to our customers and consumers nationwide. We achieve this by clearly understanding their needs and providing a great range, great service and availability today and tomorrow.


Key Stats about Allied Bakeries

Overview: Allied Bakeries is part of a larger food and retail group called Associated British Foods, whose brands includes Kingsmill, Twinings, Silver Spoon, and Primark. The Allied Bakeries site in Stockport is the Northwest home of Kingsmill and employs over 500 people. The Stockport site can produce up to 2 million loaves of bread a week!

Sector(s): Food Manufacturing

Number of Employees: 541 employees

Location: Castle Hill, Bredbury


Working at Allied Bakeries

Whichever role at whichever of our sites, you’ll soon feel part of our team and enjoy making a difference to the success of a large, competitive, ever changing business. You’ll work with great people and fantastic products. And as our business develops and succeeds through performance improvement, you’ll grow and develop too.

Join us and you won’t just go through the motions. We encourage accountability and autonomy. Ideas are listened to and your contribution will be valued, rewarded and recognised.

Our employees’ safety, health and wellbeing is important to us – we want everyone to go home after a day’s work in the same state as they arrived – our positive health and safety culture is one where people work together to make safety part of everything we do – we promote and support health and wellbeing so that people have the physical and mental capability to satisfy their own working needs as well making their personal contribution to the success of the business.

We’re looking for people who live our values, love a challenge and will go the extra mile to make things happen. Working in any of our businesses isn’t easy, but if you’ve got the right attitude, it’s very rewarding and highly satisfying. It’s where opportunity goes to work.

Hear from our colleagues directly and find out more about the roles we employ and what it’s really like to work for Allied Bakeries:


Join Allied Bakeries

We understand what we offer as an employer and why you should think about us as a future employer.

  • Interesting and challenging work – In all our roles, you’ll be working at pace, stretched to deliver, and constantly challenged to do better. It might not be easy, but it’s always changing and varied.
  • Clear accountability – We expect all our people to deliver what’s asked of them and make good decisions. By giving clear accountability, we firmly believe that we create a great work environment, which helps improve our overall business performance.
  • Real opportunities to progress – You’ll enjoy opportunities to develop and grow both personally and professionally, within Allied Milling and Baking and the wider ABF group.