Brumby's Bakeries (commonly shortened to just Brumby's) is a chain of Australian and New Zealand retail bakeries. It was established in Victoria in 1975 by Roger Gillespie (co-founder of
Bakers Delight) with the opening of its first bakery, ''The Old Style Bread Centre'', in
Ashburton, Victoria
Ashburton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Ashburton recorded a population of 7,952 at the .
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.
Company information
In 2003, the chain was listed on the
Bendigo Stock Exchange
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The exchange targeted its listing rules at small to medium-sized businesses and offered lower listing fees than the Australian Securities Exchange. It listed various s ...
.
On 18 December 2006, Brumby's announced
Retail Food Group () had proposed a merger.
As of 2007, Brumby's Bakeries has over 320
franchise
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Business and law
* Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees
* Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television p ...
s throughout Australia and New Zealand, up from 280 in 2003.
In 2012 Brumby's Bakeries Managing Director wrote an internal memo that suggested franchisees increase their prices and "let the
carbon tax
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take the blame".
The bakery chain is part of the publicly listed
Retail Food Group, which also owns
Gloria Jeans
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* Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise
** Gloria (Handel)
** Gloria (Jenkins)
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,
Donut King, and
Michel's Patisserie.
See also
*
List of restaurant chains in Australia
This is a list of notable restaurant chains in Australia. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchi ...
References
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{{Food chains in Australia
Food and drink companies based in Melbourne
Bakeries of Australia
Australian companies established in 1975