Bowman Ingredients move to a cutting-edge new UK HQ in Biggleswade

Bowman Ingredients announces an £8million investment in a new European manufacturing facility in Wroclaw, Poland to meet increased demand across Europe.

Bowman Ingredients is bought by Solina, the leading European producer of savoury ingredients solutions for the food industry.

Significant Thailand plant upgrade, leading the way in the South East Asian gluten-free food industry.

Bowman Ingredients South Africa celebrates 10 years of charitable support for local community organisations and new business enterprises, providing funding for a wide range of projects to help disadvantaged communities in the Cape Town area.

Bowman Ingredients withdraws from the flour milling market to concentrate on its highly successful ingredients business.  Milling operations in Ickleford cease, though the company’s Head Office, R&D centre and ingredients manufacturing facility continue to operate from the site.

Opens Europe’s first dedicated production site for gluten-free coatings.  This investment reflects the company’s leading role in meeting the fast-growing demand for specialised ‘free-from’ production.

Bowman Ingredients Thailand opens, the result of a joint venture with a leading food coatings firm based near Bangkok, supplying the value added food market across South East Asia, including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore.

£7million production facility opens close to Bowman Ingredients’ UK headquarters in Hitchin.

Sponsors Hitchin Belles Football Club, with eight all-girl teams of players aged from six to 17 years old, at the time one of the only girls’ football clubs in the local area.

Bowman Ingredients South Africa is formed as a joint venture with Pioneer Foods.

The modern day Bowman Ingredients is established, specialising in the production of coating systems for customers in the global food processing industry. The business is under the helm of CEO Rory Bowman, the great-great-grandson of the original founder.

Sponsorship of Ickleford Cricket Club, which continues to this day

Whitley Bridge Mill in Goole, Yorkshire was bought, to begin production in the North.

Ickleford Mill was acquired by Jas Bowman and Sons

Bowmans build Station Mill in Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Jas Bowman and Sons flour mills was founded by James Bowman at Astwick Mill, with further mills leased in Hertfordshire including West Mill and Hyde Mill.