Warburtons

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Warburtons is a British baking firm founded by Thomas Warburton in 1876 and based in Bolton, a town formerly in Lancashire, England, and is now in Greater Manchester. For much of its history Warburtons only had bakeries in Lancashire and it remains a family-owned company. As of 2018, Warburtons has 12 bakeries, 14 depots, and 4,500 employees across the UK.

The company embarked on a large expansion programme in the late 1990s which continued in the 2000s and it has grown across the United Kingdom after being relatively unheard of outside the North West. By 2010 it had a 24% share of the UK bread market compared with 2% when it was based solely in Bolton. Warburtons is the most popular bread in Lancashire with a 45% market share compared with a 15% share in London.

The Warburtons brand is the most popular bread in the United Kingdom, ahead of rivals Kingsmill and Hovis, a position it has held since 2008. Overall, Warburtons products are the second-best selling food and drink brand in the UK after Coca-Cola[4] and ahead of famous British brands such as Cadbury's, Barrs, and Walker's

The company openly supports the Conservative Party, having donated at least £25,000 since 2010 and staged one of David Cameron's speeches at its Bolton headquarters, while owner Jonathan Warburton is a supporter of Brexit, stating it was "a very good thing to have happened", and describing the European Union as a "rotting corpse