Ulster Grocer

You might reasonably be forgiven for assuming that a company whose sole raison d’etre is the production of a wonderfully indulgent range of cakes and buns would be beginning to feel the pinch around now, given the current downturn in our economic fortunes.

Yet for Graham’s Bakery in Dromore, times, it seems, could hardly be better. Turnover at the family-owned business is currently pegged at around £2.2m per year, representing a 34 per cent increase year-on-year. That figure has been forecast to rise to £3m within the next 12 months, although if ongoing negotiations with leading UK retail chains continue to go well, it could increase well beyond even that.

Graham’s is a respected artisan bakery brand and its products are a familiar sight on tables all over Ireland. Its origins stem ” in the best traditions of Irish storytelling” from a fortuitous accident when, in 1953, May Graham baked too many buns for a children’s outing. She sold them in her confectionery shop window and from there, word of the quality of her baking spread through the rural heartland of County Down. Thus the seeds of the present-day business were sown and, in the 55 years since, three generations of the Graham family have played their parts in helping that baking tradition to thrive and develop.

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