Concept:
Retail bakery franchise
Territory:
Australia and New Zealand
Training Provided:
A comprehensive training program (3 – 6 months) ensures that all franchisees are equipped with the skills and knowledge to operate a successful franchise bakery.
Marketing Support:
National Marketing Support – across all advertising mediums.
Agreement Term:
Franchise Agreement – 10 Years
Number Of Units:
Over 700 bakeries across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
Investment Required:
Approximately 30% of the business value or AUD$150,000, whichever is the greater.
Business Established:
1980
Franchising Commenced:
1988
Qualifications Required:
Franchisees come from many different backgrounds. As with any business, creating a successful franchise is about being a team player, good communicator, having self-discipline and setting up efficient systems.
About Bakers Delight
Bakers Delight, the world’s most successful franchise bakery, was established in 1980 as a single bakery on Glenferrie Road in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. An Australian owned company, Bakers Delight boasts over 700 bakeries employing more than 15,000 people, serving 2.5 million regular customers per week throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Bakers Delight has been a major corporate partner of the Breast Cancer Network Australia for eight years, raising almost $2.7 million within this time. Through its bakery network, the company donates approximately $143 million in bread to charities each year.
Why Bakers Delight?
- Proven business formula – 28 years, more than 700 bakeries & over 90% success
rate.
- Two-time winner of the Franchise Council of Australia ‘Franchise of the Year
Award.’
- Entry into a turnkey operation.
- Ongoing operational assistance.
- Sharing of individual bakery results for benchmarking.
- Opportunity to talk to franchisees prior to recruitment.
- Franchisees come from many different backgrounds.
- Full training before operation, including how to bake.
- 40% per cent of bakeries are owned by franchisees with more than one site.
Bakers Delight: a healthy franchising choice
With over 700 bakeries worldwide and global sales of $521 million, Bakers
Delight an Australian owned company, earns the title the ‘World’s Most
Successful Bakery Franchise’.
Boasting a franchise success rate of over 90 per cent and with 28 years of
experience, Bakers Delight holds a healthy 14.8 per cent of the Australian bread
market – a stable market based on Australia’s love for freshly baked bread, and
growing demand for nutritionally sound produce.
With over 300 different products baked fresh every day, 2.5 million customers
pass through the doors of Bakers Delight bakeries each week.
In 2007/2008, a continued focus on fresh baking, product development, consumer
health initiatives, delightful customer service and working with the community
has seen Bakers Delight post impressive financial results, including an average
sales increase per bakery in Australia of 6.02 per cent.
In 2008/2009, Bakers Delight plans to replicate its recent sales success,
forecasting another 6 per cent sales increase per bakery in Australia and global
sales of up to $570 million.
Bakers Delight has been a major corporate partner of the Breast Cancer Network
Australia for eight years, raising almost $2.6 million within this time. Through
its bakery network, the company has donated over $350 million in bread to
charities since 2000.
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