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Bakers Delight, a large bakery franchise, was established in 1980 as a single bakery on Glenferrie Road in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, Victoria. Bakers Delight has 700 bakeries employing more than 15,000 people, serving 2.5 million regular customers per week throughout Australia, New Zealand, Canada and most recently the US.[1] Glenferrie Road facing south looking down the hill from Kew. ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
Hawthorn is a residential suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ...
Bakers Delight has been a major corporate partner of the Breast Cancer Network Australia since 2000, raising more than $1.5 million over the past seven years. Bakers Delight also donates over $53 million in bread to charities each year. In 2004 an independent corporate citizenship study named Bakers Delight the leading corporate citizen among a large number of reputable organisations.[2] Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...
Recent events According to Roy Morgan research (December 2006), 3.75 million Australians purchased bread from a specialty bakery in a seven-day period, with 49 per cent of purchases from Bakers Delight.
With revenue from its Australian operations expected to reach $450M for 2006/07, Bakers Delight has a 14.4 per cent share of the Australian bread market, almost four times that of its closest competitor.
Of Bakers Delight’s franchised outlets, 40 per cent are owned by franchisees that own more than one site. The company received the Franchise Council of Australia’s "Franchise of the Year" award in 2001 and 2002.
Bakers Delight has 35 outlets in New Zealand and 42 in Canada trading under the COBS Bread brand, and entered the US market in 2007 with the opening of a bakery in Seattle. Global sales turnover for Bakers Delight/COBS Bread is expected to exceed $500m for the 2006/2007 financial year.
On 26 March 2007 in Australian Federal Parliament, New South Wales MP Joanna Gash alleged fraud, collusion, physical and financial intimidation and threats by Bakers Delight in relation to its treatment of a NSW franchisee, who Ms Gash said was the victim of an "orchestrated robbery". [3] Bakers Delight strenuously denied the allegations. In May 2007 four former Perth franchisees called for an investigation into the manner in which Bakers Delight treated franchisees.[4]. The Parliament of Australia is the legislative branch of Australia. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
Joanna Gash (born 21 July 1944), has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Gilmore on the southern coast of New South Wales. ...
Notes Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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