Dowson Food Machinery was first established in Yorkshire in 1982 under the skilled entrepreneurship of its founder John Murgatroyd. It soon established a reputation for providing quality British engineering solutions to sometimes complex bakery challenges, before long they were supplying bespoke equipment and service support to a great many of the UK’s leading bakery groups as well as to smaller independent and artisan bakeries. Dowson’s bread baggers and slicers became the leading standard for the industry, due to their engineering excellence and renowned reliability. The company later began to export specially designed machines all over the world as its reputation grew and today Dowson supplies to almost every continent from its base in West Yorkshire. Sadly, John passed away in 2015 but in the words Warburtons Bakery had engraved on a plaque for one of their Dowson Baggers, "John 'leaves a legacy of innovation for future generations to come'."