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Saturday, 6 January 2018
The World's Oldest Bakery, Which Bakery Holds the Record?
According to estimates, there are about half a million bakeries or more on the globe, (Nigeria alone has about 10,000 documented bakeries). Among these are bakeries as old as only yesterday, and some with history and heritage. In style, our team at 'Naija Bakers' Corner' conducted a research to find out.
Although it's not stated outright, the following bakeries are about the oldest bakeries in the world;
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Hofpfisterei - Founded in the year 1331, with headquarters in Munich, Germany, Hofpfisterei is a German bakery chain. It has about 163 branches and employs about 950 people. Its products are also sold online to countries like Austria, France, Sweden and Switzerland. It's included in the elite league of companies that are over two hundred years old still functioning.
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Haeberlein Bakery - Also a German bakery, founded in 1492.
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Edegger-Tax - This is the oldest bakery in Austria still functioning. It was founded in 1569.
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Metzger Bakery - Another German bakery, founded in 1586.
While we have concentrated on companies that are traditionally in bread making, there are companies like 'Ichinomiya Wasuke' , a Japanese confectionery maker established in the year 1000. We consider it more of a confectionery maker, and therefore did not include it.
From our research, Jack Bakery, in Plymouth, is the oldest bakery in the UK. It was founded in 1596.
Coming down home, we tried to find out the oldest bakery in Nigeria as well. From available data, we could not find any bakeries above two hundred or one hundred years old still functioning in any part of Nigeria. Therefore, we narrowed down our search to bakeries above fifty years. We were able to find a bakery in Ikorodu, Independence Bakery. The bakery was founded before independence in 1960, Originally, it was named Haruna Bakery before the name was changed.
While we rank it as one of the oldest bakeries in Nigeria, we are still continuing our research to find out whether it is the oldest bakery in Nigeria or whether there are other bakeries older. We hope to give you update once we conclude our research.
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