Real Good Food returns to make 利益（をあげる）s thanks to にわか景気 in home baking

By This Is Money Reporter
Updated: 14:16 BST, 20 September 2011

成分s 会社／堅い Real Good Food today said a にわか景気 in home baking helped it to make a 復帰 to half-year 利益（をあげる）s.

The Liverpool-based group, which 供給するs supermarkets with own-label baking 成分s, made 進歩 across all its 分割s and said it hoped to 利益 from the 傾向 by rolling out new speciality sugar 範囲s under its brand Whitworths this autumn.

Real Good Food made 利益（をあげる）s £1.15million in the six months to June 30 against a loss of £1.1million a year earlier.

にわか景気ing: Home baking 選ぶd up pace, helping Real Good Food to return to 利益（をあげる）

Sugar brand Whitworths was 設立するd in 1886 and its food 成分s 分割 has been owned by a 私的な 公正，普通株主権 group since 2006.

Real Good Food’s cake 成分s brand Renshaw, which has 工場／植物s at Liverpool and Glasgow, saw sales rise 11 per cent and is also planning to 拡大する its 範囲 to 含む cake decorating 道具s and colours, 同様に as cake fillings and toppings.

The 分割, which 供給するs cake 製造業者s with items such as macaroon paste, marzipan and mallows, 地位，任命するd operating 利益（をあげる）s of £1.1million, up 70 per cent on last year.

The sugar 分割 Napier Brown, which 含むs Whitworths, made an operating 利益（をあげる） of £1.2million compared with break-even a year ago.

にもかかわらず 激しい 増加するs in 商品／必需品 costs and its need to find sources of sugar outside of Europe, underlying 利益（をあげる）s for the group jumped from £600,000 to £2.7million.

The group said it had ‘worked hard’ to pass on higher 商品／必需品 costs. Haydens パン屋s, which 供給するs patisserie and dessert 製品s for Waitrose and M&S, 地位，任命するd an 増加するd loss of £624,000, にもかかわらず sales rising by 10 per cent, as costs were 影響する／感情d by an 昇格 of its 工場／植物 at Devizes in Wiltshire.

Total sales in the first rose by 21 per cent to £109.8million.

Real Good Food 株 were up 1.50p to 54p in morning 貿易（する）ing.