Top 100: Flour mill dating back 1,000 years reveals its secret ingredient for success

A Cotswolds firm dedicated to producing quality flour from a mill that was recorded in the Domesday book of 1086, and which today supports farmers who promote bio-diversity, continues to grow.

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As a founder and still director of Shipton Mill, John Lister knows a thing or two about what makes for good flour, but he has identified an extra special ingredient making the Cotswold firm such a success.

Lister makes no bones about what that is in the firm’s latest annual report, financial results that keep it well and truly in Raikes’ rolling Top 100 Businesses in Gloucestershire list – the ongoing series tracking the fortunes of the county’s biggest firms by turnover.

We could break the news to you just what Shipton Mill’s special ingredient is, but it is best coming from Lister himself, one of the custodians of a mill he helped breath new life into 40-plus years ago and that can trace its history back nearly 1,000 years.

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