W & H MARRIAGE & SONS LTD
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The Marriage family have been flour millers in Essex since 1824 and farmers in the local area since the seventeenth century. Still a fifth and sixth generation family run company - pictured are George and Hannah Marriage both Directors and a father and daughter team. Marriage’s produce premium quality wheat flour in 1.5kg bags, as well as supplying traditional independent artisan high street bakeries and bulk contract customers. Marriage’s mill a wide range of white, brown, wholemeal, rye, spelt and barley flours; stoneground wholemeal flour is a speciality, traditionally milled on horizontal French Burr stones.
Marriage’s automated flour mill is a unique mix of ultra high-tech milling machinery (e.g. equipment that sorts wheat by colour and the computer system controlling the mill) and the traditional, such as the hundred year old French Burr stones, used to produce stoneground wholemeal flour. The whole of the grain is ground to flour in one process, nothing is removed. This wholesome flour is popular with customers looking to make healthy, nutritious bread and rolls.
Marriage’s undertake stringent quality assurance procedures throughout the milling process and the onsite technical laboratory tests the wheat from intake (for factors such as protein quality and content, and moisture levels) and the flour throughout the milling process. Marriage’s end flour is baked into various products by our onsite technical baker. This is vital, as the most important thing for Marriage’s customers, be them a professional artisan bread baker or someone baking at home for pleasure, is that they receive a consistent product every time.
Marriage's produce a range of organic flours and have done since 1986. Sampson David Marriage (fourth generation family member) was interested in organic production long before it became so high profile. George Marriage played a key role in the early development of the Organic Food Federation and served as Chairman for several years. Marriage’s have been active in organic industry research projects, across the agricultural, milling and baking industries.
In the milling process, the best possible wheats are selected to ensure consistent flour quality. Marriage’s source English wheat from local Essex farmers where possible, including from the family’s own arable farms near the mill. This local commitment helps to keep food miles to a minimum. All of the farmers that Marriage’s source wheat from are members of the Assured Crops Scheme. Many of the farmers that supply Marriage’s have been farming families for generations – the same is true of many of the smaller independent family bakery firms that purchase Marriage’s flour.
In addition, Marriage’s source high protein Canadian Red Wheat; this is world renowned for quality in bread, pasta and pizza making.
The foundation of Marriage’s trusted reputation has been built on our focus upon customer satisfaction. Marriage’s dedicated sales and technical teams are available to support customers face to face – for example; visiting bakeries and production sites to ensure customers are achieving consistent production results. As a company, Marriage’s retains core family values yet we are always looking ahead, one of the reasons our business is still thriving after almost two centuries. In the UK there are now only about thirty full scale milling firms, and we are in a minority of family run companies.
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