Hovis Ltd Tech Stack
UK bakery manufacturer operating 8 mills and distribution across Britain and Ireland
Hovis is a legacy bread and bakery manufacturer with 1,001–5,000 employees across eight bakeries, a flour mill, and two distribution centres in the UK. The tech stack is industrial-heavy—Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, and Mitsubishi Electric dominate—paired with Microsoft enterprise tools and SQL Server analytics. The hiring surge (66 open roles, 29 posted in last 30 days) is heavily weighted toward engineering (31 roles) and manufacturing (14), signaling operational maturity problems: active projects target equipment reliability, downtime reduction, and production-line stability, while pain points center on plant breakdowns and line integrity rather than growth.
Tech Stack 23 technologies
What Hovis Ltd Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing downtime
- Prevent plant breakdowns
- Minimising downtime
- Complex disciplinary cases
- Maintaining production line reliability
- Equipment reliability
- Maintaining hygiene standards
- Ensuring food safety compliance
- High-speed production lines
- Improving quality standards
▲Active Projects
- Organisation design and workforce planning
- People plans
- Culture improvement initiatives
- Audit and traceability exercises
- Taste testing sessions
- Controls and automation strategy
- New reliability function
- Long-term asset care strategies
- Enterprise data architecture roadmap
- Data modeling across transactional and analytical domains
