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Top 25 Sourdough bakeries based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 205 sourdough bakeries headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,228 professional contacts across them, including 883 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers sourdough bakeries headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest sourdough bakeries based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 905 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The GAIL’s story began in 2005, when the first bakery opened in Hampstead to make world-class artisan bread more widely available beyond London’s top restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Bread Factory, London's leading artisan bakery, is proud to supply the most prestigious hotels and restaurants in London with hand-made, award-winning breads, morning goods…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “THE STORY OF OLE & STEEN We’ve been serving Danes delicious breads and pastries, made by hand every single day, for over 20 years, with recipes handed down from generations and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The business behind Jason's Sourdough, Geary’s Bakeriers are an entrepreneurial private bakery business based in Leicestershire, supplying to major retailers and food service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Speedibake first opened in 1984, with bakery sites located at Northampton and Wakefield.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bread Ahead was founded by Matthew Jones in 2013, who has been in the business and making bread for over 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2003 by Pierre Koffmann protégé and former Michelin-starred chef Paul Rhodes, Paul Rhodes Bakery is one of the leading independent bakeries in London, specialising in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Fosters Bakery, based in Barnsley, Yorkshire, baking up deliciousness since Emily Foster started it all in 1952 in Mapplewell village.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Brace’s, baking great products runs in the family, quite literally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Speciality Breads – Traditional Artisan Bakers for Food Service and Retail We’re proud to be the UK’s only fully Red Tractor accredited bakery, using certified British wheat flour…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Galeta kicked off in 2011 with a simple stall and some seriously good homemade cookies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Celtic Bakers Ltd is London’s leading craft bakery- supplying the best hand-crafted breads and pastries across a wonderful array of customers in foodservice, retail and private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our stores are located in busy communities across Brighton, Hove, and Worthing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are passionate about baking fresh artisan bread, cakes and pastries providing our customers with great tasting food and excellent customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flourish Craft Bakery is a family-run artisan bakery, proudly owned by brother and sister Paul and Helen O’Connell.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An independent Artisan Bakery, producing bread, pastries and savoury products by hand using only the finest raw ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a wholesale artisan bakery with stores in Hampshire and Sussex.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in London’s Park Royal, IL Fornaio Ltd is one of the uk’s largest independent producers of high quality breads.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1997 by Alastair Gourlay, we are local to the Brighton, Hove & the Sussex area & pride ourselves on being an artisanal provider of fresh Bakery, Pastries, high end…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seven Seeded is a wholesale artisan bakery located in Watford and servicing all of London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At the young age of 23, Tom brought the art of artisan baking back to Cornwall.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Pizza Workshop, we offer 10 carefully crafted sourdough pizzas (and one or two specials).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sourdough Sophia was born out of the lockdown during a global pandemic, in Crouch End, at the heart of North London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fresh & local breakfast goods 🧑 From oven to your doorstep in hours Available in London "Butter & Crust delivers some of London’s best sourdough loaves and artisanal goods."-…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: sourdough bakeries. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names sourdough bakeries.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sourdough bakeries, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sourdough bakeries. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Sourdough bakeries based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 205 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among sourdough bakeries, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “sourdough bakeries”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names sourdough bakeries), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among sourdough bakeries, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 883 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Sourdough bakeries by metro
- Sourdough bakeries in London40
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names sourdough bakeries, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many sourdough bakeries are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 205 sourdough bakeries headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Gail's, headquartered in United Kingdom, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most sourdough bakeries?
London leads with 40 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (8) and Nottingham (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 883 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 205 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.