BAKERS BASCO, the membership scheme established by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis, and Warburtons to manage bakery equipment, is significantly increasing its deployment of GPS tracking devices in the Midlands.
By Paul Empson, general manager, Bakers Basco.
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THE COOPERATIVE venture established in 2006 by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis, and Warburtons to manage its equipment, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with the charity Crimestoppers to assist in their national awareness campaign aimed at tackling the illegal theft of bakery delivery equipment.
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ATTRITION RATES on bread baskets and dolly equipment used in the baking industry have fallen 4.34% and 6.63% respectively over the last year to reach their lowest levels in four years, new figures from Bakers Basco show.
Bakers Basco, the collaborative initiative established by Hovis, Warburtons, Allied Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, and Fine Lady Bakeries, continues to intensify its efforts to combat equipment misuse and theft.
BAKERS BASCO, the membership scheme set up by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis and Warburtons to provide and manage bakery equipment, has boosted the use of GPS tracking devices by 50% as part of an ongoing effort to increase efficiencies across its operations and investigations.
Polish Village Bakery and Adkins Bakery are the latest bakeries to join the Bakers Basco national membership scheme, adopting the industry standard Omega bread basket for deliveries and benefiting from ongoing operational and recovery support from the Bakers Basco team to ensure sufficient equipment supplies.
Bakers Basco, the membership scheme set up by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis and Warburtons to manage an industry wide bakery equipment solution, has reported marked improvements in attrition rates across its bread baskets and dollies, owing to better cross-team collaboration and education with bakery stakeholders.
Bakers Basco, the membership scheme set up by Allied Bakeries, Fine Lady Bakeries, Frank Roberts & Sons, Hovis and Warburtons to manage an industry wide bakery equipment solution, has ramped up its tech capabilities with body worn video cameras to improve its equipment tracking surveillance to catch unlawful abusers.
Mr Sebastian Sosenko, who owns and operates The Pine Tree Bakery, based in Edinburgh, has been made the subject of a Perpetual Interdict (the Scottish legal equivalent of a permanent restraining injunction) issued by the Sherriff’s Court to stop him using bread baskets and other equipment belonging to Bakers Basco and its members without their permission.
Two Essex-based bakeries and their directors have had to pay £10,000 in court costs and damages, as well as agreeing to accept a Court Order permanently preventing them from any future misuse of bread baskets and other equipment belonging to Bakers Basco and its members.
Leeds-based food company, David Wood Baking, which recently rebranded as David Wood Foods, has ended up with a bill for more than £18,000 after admitting that it had misused bread baskets belonging to Bakers Basco.
Bakery equipment company Bakers Basco has used evidence gathered through GPS tracking to assist with a claim against a Birmingham-based company, Capital Waste Management, which was in possession of Basco equipment without authorisation.
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