Pictured above: Greggs Manchester

Nottingham based specialist provider of food manufacturing facilities Clegg Food Projects has been awarded two prestigious contracts totalling £20 million.

Nationally-renowned Clegg Food Projects, which designs and constructs large-scale food operations all over the UK, has won contracts with leading baking retailer Greggs and well known dairy firm Adams Food Group, owned by the Irish Dairy Board.

Clegg Food Projects has already started on the design and construction of a new bakery for Greggs Longbenton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will replace existing premises.

The project is the latest in a long line of large-scale projects that Clegg has carried out for Greggs. The new 80,000 sq ft Gosforth factory, close to the first ever Greggs shop in Gosforth High Street, will support the company's rapid growth as it plans to expand its chain of 1,400 shops around the UK by a further 600 sites over the next few years.

Stephen Giltrap, managing director of Clegg Food Projects, said:  "Greggs' new Gosforth Park Bakery will replace its existing bakery and is close to other Greggs production and distribution facilities, which we have also designed and built for the company."

Clegg Food Projects has provided a fully integrated design and construction service to assist Greggs in finding the best solutions to create a cutting edge factory able to cope with the bakery's ambitious growth, said Mr Giltrap.

The new facility has been specifically designed by Clegg to meet the needs of Greggs' retail offering, to further increase its efficiency, product quality and innovation, he said.

Mr Giltrap added: "This is the eleventh project we have will have carried out for Greggs in less than ten years. We are delighted to be working with this hugely successful client again on a key site in the area where the company originates.

"Clegg Food Projects has worked with Greggs for many years and it is satisfying to continue to work with, and support, a company which has progressed successfully to become a well-loved, Great British institution."

The project at Adams will see the construction of a new 60,000 sq ft factory for the production of food ingredients in Leek, Staffs. It is being built adjacent to a factory Clegg Food Projects built two years ago for The Kerrygold Company.

Mr Giltrap said: "We have drawn upon our technical knowledge and practical experience of the food manufacturing sector to ensure we have achieved the best possible outcome for Adams.

"We have worked with both Greggs and Adams before and we are delighted to have secured repeat business from them. With Greggs we have a relationship spanning ten years which is a great achievement and testament to a good working partnership. Clients value work that comes in on budget, on time, and is finished to a high standard, and we are always able to deliver service of this quality."

Work has currently started on site at both projects. The Greggs site is expected to complete in June 2011, and Adams in May 2011.

Greggs group production project manager Peter Boughton said: "I'm pleased to be working with Clegg Food Projects again as we've built up a good understanding of each other's requirements over the past nine years. This has resulted in continuous improvements to bakery design and adherence to build timescales which in turn has led to a reduction in build costs."

Steven Howarth, managing director of Adams Food Ingredients, said: "Having obtained funding from the Irish Dairy Board to invest in a new facility, we looked for a contractor with food specialisation and someone we could work with to successfully deliver the project to all key criteria.

"Cleggs had demonstrated their capability on The Kerrygold Company design and build, our team had no hestation in appointing Clegg Food Projects a second time."