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Tatura Hot Bread apprentices Chrystie Reardon and Danyel Dryden are justifiably proud of themselves, having taken out three awards each at the Bakery Associations of Australia Easter in the Fruit Bowl Awards held at Goulburn Ovens TAFE in Shepparton on February 23-24.

Adding to the excitement, Tatura Hot Bread bakers Jeff and John Alexander and Graeme Johnson managed to pick up a further 14 awards in various categories to earn the business the title of ‘Most Successful Trades Exhibitor’.

Exhibitors were restricted to one entry/class and one exhibitor/entry form, with NSW and Victorian judges undertaking the massive task of sorting out winners from 99 individual bakeries and 300 entries.

Tatura Hot Bread’s Glenda Alexander was full of praise for her staff, in particular the two young apprentices who were entering their first competition.

‘‘Chrystie has been with us for 12 months and Danyel for just three months,’’ she said. ‘‘They were very excited to win and we are rapt.’’

Mrs Alexander said the wins were a real team effort.

‘‘We are very proud of the team and all their hard work has paid off,’’ she said.

Jeff Alexander said the competition, in its fifth year, keeps growing and the standard was getting better each year.