Wolverhampton Flour & Bread Co

Sectors:

  • Food & tobacco processing Baking inc baking of cakes
  • Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products

Notes:

Established 1812 as a shareholder owned business which aimed to reduce the price of flour and bread by breaking the supposed market control of existing millers. Built large steam grain mill and sold flour and bread to shareholders at cost. Unsuccessfully indicted by competitors in 1814. Had discontinued by 1840s when its Union Mill operated by other millers

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