About GoBake
Baking & Cake Decorating for Everyone!
GoBake is a manufacturer & wholesaler of bakery and cake supplies, brands and creative solutions to retail & commercial markets. Our products can be found in leading supermarkets, specialty retailers, food distributors and are used by the greatest cake artists, bakers, food manufacturers & brands from throughout New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Our commitment is to provide variety & value, keeping things fun & easy whilst educating and inspiring you to create amazing things. We are a third generation, family owned, New Zealand company founded in 1964 and celebrate our history with pride!
We have a huge range of products including everything you’ll need for making, baking & decorating cakes, cupcakes, cookies, desserts, treats and more! Our “everything for the cake” product range includes Baking Cups, Bakeware, Fondant, Edible Images, Bakery Equipment, Cake Boards, Flavours, Colours, Candles, Baking Essentials, Sprinkles & Toppings, Sugar Decorations, Cake Decorating Supplies and much more.
We love creating amazing solutions for some of the best brands in the industry including private label and custom made retail & commercial products. We supply leading supermarkets, specialty retail chains, in-store bakeries, food manufacturers & brands, food distributors and more with a variety of creative solutions designed specifically to their needs.
We love our products and know you will too so if you’re interested in our products please click here to find a place to buy or if you’re interested in becoming a wholesale customer, please contact us now!
We Have a Great History.
1964
George Briant Ltd was founded in Christchurch in 1964 by George & Doris Briant to supply bakery and food service ingredients, equipment and cake decorations to the bakery & butchery trade. Through the passion, innovation, expert industry knowledge, key relationships and family values, the company performed well and in 1970 moved to Auckland where it was a bigger market and it was where most head offices were located. It was here where George Briant chose the new company name, Golden Bridge Marketing Ltd which means “Safe Retreat” whilst maintaining the use of his initials, GB which is something that remains in our business today.
1982
The second generation, Steve Briant joined the company in 1982 to take the company to the next stage of growth. Steve re-focussed the company into bakery & cake decorating products and launched our first consumer brand, Golden Day into the retail market with our first big win getting our products into Kmart in 1985.
1999
In 1999 we entered the Food Service market, a channel the company was founded on where we could provide customised procurement and distribution solutions for multi store café groups. This included supplying branded and unbranded packaging, ingredients, cleaning products and more to some of the leading franchise café & bakery chains in New Zealand.
2006
Mike Briant, the third generation joined the company in 2006 straight out of high school to try and save some money to go on his OE. Starting off in the warehouse picking & packing orders he gained a real interest in finding efficiencies operationally through managing people and utilising technology.
2010
With the expanding interest of baking & cake decorating it was identified that we needed new “face” for this part of the company. GoBake was officially launched in 2011 to provide baking & cake decorating products, brands and creative solutions for retail and commercial markets. We love being part of great things with great people and begin our journey of becoming a household name.
2016
In light of the GoBake branded becoming well known it is decided to officially change our company name to GoBake Ltd and move in to our new support office on the beautiful Hibiscus Coast in Auckland, New Zealand. With an amazing team, clear strategic direction we are excited to celebrate our over 50 year history while we continue to work on the next 50 years. Come along for our journey!
2017
Launching of our innovative range of Chocolate Decorations. This includes a brand-new range of delicious printed edible Chocolate Placs perfect for decorating Cakes, Cupcakes, Desserts and more. We expand our offering including providing personalised solutions to household brands including Lone Star, Couplands Bakeries, Divine Cakes, New Zealand Natural, Movenpick, Sky City and more.
2018
GoBake continues to grow throughout the market in Australia including shipping more than 30 FCL containers into the market. Expansion into the Australian market continues to be a major focus whilst also remaining fully committed to our home market of New Zealand.
2018
Launching of a new range of Cake and Cupcake Boxes. This includes a popular everyday range for both retailers and bakeries as well as personalised printed boxes for leading Cake Shop brands including Bluebells Cakery, The Chocolate Cake Company and more.
2019
Mike Briant officially becomes Managing Director completing the succession from his father, Steve Briant who had been in this role for over 30 years. Mike is committed to continuing the family tradition to help further steer the team towards achieving our goals well into the future.
2019
Mad Ingredients is born. We start a new company based in Australia, manufacturing Flavours and Food Colours and Specialty Ingredients to leading Food, Beverage and Bakery manufacturers & distributors throughout the World. Mad Ingredients supplies markets throughout Asia Pacific including Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and will continue to expand throughout the World.
2020
Following the global effects of COVID-19, GoBake makes the decision early to “F the C Word” and front foot these challenging times. This includes changing Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider to deliver a service we are proud of, launching our new Wholesale E-commerce Platform, employing two new roles in Graphic Design & Marketing and Purchasing & Logistics to help us manage our significant growth and much more.
2020
We discover our BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) to help further strengthen and align to our Purpose, Values and Ambitions across our team for the future. It is pretty big; it is definitely hairy, and we think you’d all agree it’s very audacious – we are committing to be a part of 1 billion sweet moments in 2030!
2021
We achieve 50 million sweet moments in 1 year. Only 950 million more we need to achieve in the same period by 2030. She is a pretty big job, but this is what drives our team day in and day out.
2021
Committed to front footing the effects of the C-WORD, we continue to experience rapid growth and will continue to grow our team of great people to all achieve great things together. A real focus for the year is building our team, creating game-changing products through innovation and significant expansion in key channels in both New Zealand and Australia.
