Baker Labels expands its family team

Bakers Self Adhesive Labels has remained a family business since it was established in 1973 by Tom’s grandparents Roy and Marian Baker. Steve Baker joined his parents straight from school at age 16 and succeeded his father as managing director in 2000. Mandy Baker also joined her husband Steve in the family business and has been finance manager alongside her current role as a chief happiness officer, creator of the wellbeing at work program for the last 20 years.

Tom joins his engineer graduate older brother Harry, who started at Baker Labels in 2018. Twenty-five-year-old Harry runs operations within BakPac, the new flexible packaging division of Baker Labels.

‘I have joined Bakers as the Academy coordinator, meaning it is my job to build structured content that will help our employees to train and better themselves,’ commented Tom Baker. ‘With my own technical knowledge being low I understand the necessity of extracting the information from Bakers’ experienced and skilled staff. We are hoping for the Academy to use our in-house expertise combined with top-class external sessions to improve the training and development across all parts of the company.’

‘Although Tom has only been here a couple of months, he has already made a massive difference to the future of the business. We have been talking about the idea of a training academy for Bakers for several years, but Tom has been able to take that idea and get things rolling,’ said Steve Baker.

‘This will now develop at a fast pace over the next few months, which will have a real positive effect on everyone in the company, not just new recruits, to enable us to have a far more knowledgeable, flexible workforce which is vital to our ongoing success,’ added Steve Baker. ‘The boys have never been under any pressure to join the business, but it feels really good that they are both here. I genuinely feel that we can go from strength to strength, so the Bakers of the future is an exciting prospect and majorly stronger having Harry and Tom on board.’