Annual Review
The UK has some of the most modern flour mills in the world. Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they ensure that bakeries, food manufacturers, restaurants, and retailers have the flour needed to make food for the nation. We are investing and developing continually, delivering our quality products sustainably, at competitive prices.
The UK flour milling industry is part of the backbone of British food security, supplying an ingredient key to the diet and nutrition of our nation of over 68 million people. We are part of a supply chain consuming around a third of the UK’s annual wheat harvest, making us a major customer of British farms. Ours is a process which produces very little waste; the main co-product of flour milling is bran which is used as food for people and in animal feed. Over the last fifteen years, mill efficiency has improved, with 9.5% less energy used on average, per tonne of grain milled.
In 2024, we produced our first annual review of the UK's flour milling industry showing that in 2023:
- 3.8 million tonnes of flour supplied
- Milled using 4.9 million tonnes of UK-grown wheat
- £270 million invested over the last ten years in the sector
- Enery consumption per thousand tonnes of grain milled has fallen by almost 10% over the 15 years since 2008
This year, we produced an interim annual review that highlights key findings from 2024 and looks ahead to 2025.
“As a country we are essentially self-sufficient in flour,” explained, Chief Executive Officer, Alistair Gale, said. “Our annual reviews highlight this, alongside the fantastic, skilled people who work, day in day out in mills across the country underpinning food security and nourishing the nation, providing 20% of people’s daily energy intake.