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<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThe Bakedin story began back in May 2013. Joe and his good friend Anna had been lift sharing to work for a few months, and on a journey on the M3 the conversation moved onto the subject of baking. They both loved to cook and had the idea of a time saving baking kit that still gave the full baking from scratch experience but with a little less hassle \u2013 and so the Bakedin baking kit was born. Joined by their friend Elaina, a plan was hatched to test their idea.\u00a0A school fete, artisan market and high street food festival later and it was clear the public loved the idea. Not long after, they\u00a0picked up their first stockist and launched an additional product range \u2013 mug baking mixes.<\/p>\n
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The business grew steadily, but working a demanding day job and spending evenings and weekends working on the business meant that a crossroads was soon reached. After raising a round of seed investment, Joe quit his day job to manage the business full time, hired his first employees and the rest is history.<\/p>\n
After an introduction to Michel Roux OBE, they are now fortunate to have their recipes exclusively\u00a0approved by one of the world\u2019s finest pastry chefs. Today Bakedin\u00a0is sold in thousands of shops\u00a0and online retailers in the UK, Europe and North America\u00a0including Tesco, Lakeland,\u00a0Ocado, Hobbycraft, QVC and Moonpig.<\/p>\n
Their Baking Club subscription service was named in the Independents top 15 food subscriptions two years running, alongside brands such as Graze, HelloFresh and Hotel Chocolat.<\/p>\n
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Looking to expand both production and warehouse capacity, Bakedin have taken a lease on unit A Antura at LGIM\u2019s Kingsland Business Park in Basingstoke.<\/p>\n
Bakedin\u00a0is a manufacturer and distributor of home baking and cake kits which are available on line or through major retailers. Joe Munns, founder and MD of BakedIn took the decision to move their head office and warehousing operation to Antura in March and by May had completed the lease to occupy the unit for the next 8 years. A Antura is a newly refurbished warehouse of 14,016 sq ft with a high office content.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was time to increase production of the kits to meet rising demand which meant moving the storage and distribution away from our first base, Lennox Industrial Mall and take on a full height warehouse\u201d says Munns. \u201cAntura was slightly larger than we planned but the extra space has allowed us to create a purpose-built kitchen studio and despatch area with sales and marketing offices above in this versatile building,\u201d continued Munns.<\/p>\n
“The letting has given us confidence to press ahead with the construction of Horizon 5, a 37,500 sq ft warehouse\/production unit in place of the former go- karting centre which will be ready in February 2021.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Josh Quinton-Smith, senior Asset Manager of owners Legal & General Investment Management says \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Bakedin as a pioneering food producer to Kingsland Business Park.\u201d The Park is home to many other successful and diverse companies from prosthetics to global safety science leader. \u201cSince we bought Kingsland in 2018 we have strived to raise the profile by attracting dynamic companies and position Kingsland as the pre-eminent business park for Basingstoke\u201d reports Quinton-Smith.<\/p>\n
LGIM were represented by London Clancy, Hollis Hockley and Jones Lang LaSalle for the letting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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