National awards delight for the Jenkins Bakery






The popular Jenkins Bakery has scooped two prizes in national competitions.
The Llanelli-based bakery was successful in the The National Association of Master Bakers' bakery competitions at the Bakers' and Butchers' Spring Fair at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern.
"It's a double delight for us as a business," said operations director Russell Jenkins.
"What is particularly pleasing is that the wins went to two of our youngest members of staff.
"We believe in nurturing young talent here at the Jenkins Bakery and the two winners created top quality showpiece products to beat off stiff competition from the rest of the UK."
Natasha Fuge's winning design at the Spring Fair was in the Celebration Cake category and was inspired by impending birth of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby.
Trainee Alex Cowell won first for her cupcakes.
And Alex also won a special prize of a training day with television's Fabulous Baker Brothers at their Cotswolds HQ.
The prizes were picked up at the Spring Fair by Sarah Williams, cake department manager at the Jenkins Bakery, who received the honours on behalf of the team from the National President of the National Association of Master Bakers, Christopher Freeman, and TV personality Christine Hamilton.

Photos above:
The winning Celebration Cake design.
The wining cupcakes.
Sarah Williams, cake department manager at the Jenkins Bakery, received the honours on behalf of the team from the National President of the National Association of Master Bakers, Christopher Freeman, and TV personality Christine Hamilton.
Natasha Fuge, Sarah Williams and Alex Cowell.
Russell Jenkins, Natasha Fuge, Sarah Williams, Alex Cowell and Kevin Field, bakery manager.

The Jenkins bakery employs 280 people, full and part-time, across 26 different stores in South Wales.
The company has the Gold Standard Welsh Food Hygiene Award and the Investors in People award.
The business employs 70 people at its Trostre HQ, while the Jenkins shop network stretches from Carmarthen to Bridgend. There are 14 shops in Carmarthenshire and even one as far afield as Powys.
The company celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2011.
Website -
http://jenkinsbakery.co.uk/

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