Roberts Bakery

Fiona Bruce MP attends gathering of family businesses in Parliament with Mike Roberts of Roberts Bakery.

 

Fiona Bruce MP attended the annual gathering of family business representatives in Parliament, organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Family Business of which Fiona Bruce MP is a member. This event brings together the Family Business sector and members of Parliament to promote the valuable contribution family run businesses make to society and the economy.

It is little recognised that family businesses employ almost 12 million people across the country and in the North West alone there are over 450,000 family businesses, one of which is long standing bakery, Roberts Bakery, which began as a grocers in 1887 and which now makes over 3.5 million loaves of bread, bread rolls and teacakes each week, still in Cheshire.

Fiona Bruce said “Family businesses make a strong contribution to our economy, providing as they do, stable employment for many people, and working, not just for the short term, but for decades, and even generations. They often also make a considerable contribution to local community life Frank Roberts and Sons Ltd, trading as Roberts Bakery, which has baked high quality bread here in Cheshire for over 125 years, is an outstanding example of all of this – so it is always a delight to welcome Mike Roberts, Deputy Chairman of Frank Roberts and Sons Ltd, who is a long standing Governor of Sandbach Boys School, to this important annual event in Westminster.”