Established in the early 1990s, La Fornaia prides itself on being the bakery that launched ciabatta into the UK retail market.
The company was created with the help of skilled Italian bakers to ensure a baking process as authentic as traditional bakeries in Italy.
Today our award-winning craft bakery employs 300 bakers at a 54,000 sq ft, custom-designed site in Park Royal, London.
In the beginning, the core of our business was hand-crafted ciabatta and Italian breads. Today we bake an extensive range of quality, speciality breads - from traditional French Fougasse to organic breads and crispbreads.
Our bakery produces more than 100 lines.
La Fornaia bakes hand-crafted breads for almost all the major multiple retailers' own brand, as well as a large number of food service operators and wholesalers.
We also produce a range of organic English speciality breads for the Prince of Wales' Duchy Originals brand, as well as Italian-style breads for the Loyd Grossman brand.
Quality, flair, innovation and service are the cornerstones of our business and they are what differentiates us from the competition.
Quality begins with our insistence on using only the finest ingredients from carefully-selected suppliers. It continues with the skill and dedication of our expert bakers, who work to exacting standards. Quality is maintained throughout the entire process by our technical team via a comprehensive system of process and hygiene audits. We are fully certified by the Soil Association and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and approved by the Vegetarian Society.
Flair comes from our passion for bread and our bread-making skills, which are second to none. It comes too from our use of authentic recipes, our tireless research to identify the best ingredients and our use of traditional baking methods. Our dough is given a longer fermentation to develop a fuller flavour and texture and our skilled bakers hand-cut and hand-craft the bread, taking great pride in their work.
Innovation comes from being a company full of ideas, with a 'can do' attitude and the expertise in all aspects of manufacturing to 'make it happen'. At La Fornaia, we pride ourselves on being ahead of the game. We move faster than the competition so that we can be 'first to market' with exciting and successful new products.
Service comes naturally to La Fornaia and we take pride in putting our customers first. Our company has a strong reputation for outstanding customer service and order fulfilment, for which clients rate us very highly. Our team works closely with retailers and customers, keeping them up-to-date with the latest market information and always ensuring the best possible level of service.
