Cornish Bakery ranked in UK’s fastest growth retail brands

Cornish Bakery has been ranked as one of the only UK hospitality companies in the 2024 Top 100 Interpath Retail Growth Index.

The company has also announced that another new bakery will open in Cirencester in the near future, taking the Cornish Bakery estate to almost 70, on the back of record-breaking sales of over £1m per week.

The inaugural Interpath Growth-Index lists the top 100 UK’s fastest growing businesses across a multitude of sectors, from fashion to forecourts and from hobbies to wellbeing. This index, compiled by analysts at Oresa, ranks retailer’s two-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) based on the last three years of their sales.

In recent weeks, Cornish Bakery has opened new high street locations in Taunton, Winchester and Chelmsford – all “significantly exceeding” expectations in the first few weeks of trading. The company has also reported a record October half term with customer transactions up 26% on last year.

Its new Milton Keynes bakery, its 65th, will open within centre:mk next month and today managing director Mat Finch has announced that Cirencester will follow in early 2025.

The company intends to open at least 10 more bakeries in key locations in 2025, pushing towards the stated ambition of at least 100 bakeries across the UK.

Finch says: “I’m delighted to be one of the Top 100 retailers, cited in the 2024 Interpath Retail Growth Index. We’re already one of the only UK independently owned fastest growing bakery companies so I’m not surprised to see that our exceptional, yet carefully tuned, growth has made such an impressive list of all UK retail companies.

“In the words of our founder Steve Grocutt, ‘Bakery is the new coffee shop’ and we’re bringing our high-quality products, freshly baked in-store every day to more and more cities, market towns, tourism locations and designer shopping villages every month. Our New Product Development is completely on point with immediate high demand for our recently launched Shakshuka Croissant, alongside our big summer hits – the Pistachio Croissant and Chorizo, Mozzarella & Cornish Sea Salt pasty.”

The independently owned chain has a long-standing commitment to the B-Corp certified specialty coffee company Union, and also sources the majority of its ingredients and products from across Cornwall and the South West.