Notice of Results

Finsbury Food Group plc

Notice of Results

Finsbury Food Group plc (AIM: FIF), a leading UK speciality bakery manufacturer of cake, bread and morning goods for both the retail and foodservice channels, will announce its interim results for the six months ended 27 December 2014, on Monday 23 March 2015.

An analyst briefing will be held at 1100hrs on the day at Redleaf Polhill, First Floor, 4 London Wall Buildings, Blomfield Street, London, EC2M 5NT.

Analysts wishing to attend the briefing should contact Rachael Brown on 0207 382 4736 or email [email protected] to register. 

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Notes to Editors:

▪ Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad range of blue chip customers within both the Grocery retail and 'out of home eating' foodservice sectors including major multiples and leading foodservice providers.

▪ Following the acquisition of the Fletchers Group of bakeries, the Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in the UK with initial annualised sale of over £270m.

▪ The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes:

- Large premium and celebration cakes;

- Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites.

- Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer channel requirements.

▪ The Company is now the second largest manufacturer of ambient packaged cake (excluding In Store Bakery) in the UK, a market valued at £926m (Source Symphony IRI 52 w/e 6th December 2014). The annual bread and morning goods market has a value in excess of £3.5 billion (source Kantar Worldpanel). The UK foodservice bakery sector is worth approximately £900 million per annum, 70 per cent of which is in morning goods.

▪ The Company comprises a UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:

- UK Bakery has manufacturing sites in Cardiff, Hamilton, Salisbury, Sheffield, London and Manchester.

- The overseas sector comprise the Company's 50% owned Company Lightbody Stretz Ltd supplies and distributes the Group's UK manufactured products and third party products primarily to Europe.