Honeywell Trains 300 Master Bakers

Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has reiterated its commitment to increasing human capacity development, saying it has trained 300 Master Bakers whose skills have been upgraded with multiplier positive effects on their businesses. Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lanre Jaiyeola, who stated this in Lagos, during the 24th Certificate Award Ceremony of the Honeywell Baking School, also hinted of plan by the management to increase enrolment by about 200 per cent. The current capacity averages 20 people. The Baking School, according to him, is the company’s own way of giving back to the community by empowering bakers with modern baking skills and flour handling procedures that they can use to run their businesses more professionally and profitably. Besides, he said it is an experiential programme designed to give bakers firsthand baking training with well-trained experts in a world class environment. “At the Honeywell Baking School, we teach bakers the science and art of baking with special focus on scaling, recipe formulation and recipe adjustment. The bakers are also taught common bread faults and how to solve them, basic selling, marketing, finance and people management tips and how to maximize bakery output through the production of fresher, richer and better bread and bread varieties”, he said. He charged the 14 Graduates (10 men and 4 women) to utilize acquired skills, to take advantage of the huge opportunities in their businesses, saying this is an announcement to the baking world that they are ready to step up and take their businesses to the next level. “As graduates, you have had the honour of studying in a world class baking school, one that deservedly commands enormous respect among Master Bakers across the country. This is an accomplishment that your families and friends can be proud of as you are now part of an elite group of bakers who have passed through Honeywell Baking School”, he said. Commending the management for the gesture, the Class Captain, Mr. Kenneth Anyanwu said they will remain grateful to Honeywell for imparting such technical skills and knowledge on them, assuring that knowledge acquired would be applied to their businesses.