Soreen is a brand of

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and is owned by Mark and David Samworth, a food manufacturing company based in

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. The creator of Soreen, John Rahbek Sorenson, arrived in

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in 1920. He purchased a property in Manchester two years before establishing John Sorenson Bakery Equipment & Co. Over the course of the next several years, he produced and sold his own baked goods. In 2013, the company's revenue grew 20% to £30m, and in 2014 the Soreen brand was acquired from the McCambridge Group by the

Samworth Brothers Samworth Brothers is a British food manufacturer which produces a range of chilled and ambient foods, both own-label and branded. It is the owner of Cornish pasty maker Ginsters and malt loaf manufacturer Soreen, and is also known as a maker o ...

for an undisclosed sum. As of December 2018, the company employs 126 at its Manchester factory, and its products are consumed by roughly 28.5% of households in the UK. They distribute 1.5 million loaves per week.

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