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The extensive refit commenced during the summer of 2022 and included the creation of a new plant room with a new boiler and water treatment plant and upgrades to other machinery.​  Read more online at​...

Sherborne’s finest were honoured at the town’s annual business awards with organisers hailing a record number of entries. Upwards of 60 local business leaders attended yesterday’s lunchtime event at The Grange at Oborne. Read the full report on Dorset Biz News...

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Dorset based Barker, the largest domestic laundry in the UK and a leading specialists Dry Cleaner, has won a prestigious award in the LADA’s – the Laundry, dry cleaning and textile care industry awards, run by the publication, ‘Laundry & Cleaning Today’. The...

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arker detachable collars featured in ‘The Fashiongton Post’ check out the photo shoot on page 12. The Fashiongton Post

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Dorset based Barker, the largest domestic laundry in the UK and a leading specialists Dry Cleaner, is reflecting on its eco journey to date and achieving the ambitious targets set by the business. Among the company’s eco initiatives are an investment in washing/water...

Great to see our new Blenheim Classic Shirt featured in Country Life Magazine in their ‘Time to buy’ section. Please visit www.mycollarsandcuffs.com to view the entire range. www.Countrylife.co.uk #gentlemensfashion #quality #collars Matthew Barker.

PREPARING FOR THE VENDEE GLOBE: Matthew Barker catches up with yachtswoman Pip Hare to see how her preparations are going. A lovely conversation between the two! Barker Business Dry Cleaning and Laundry is proud to be a part of the Business Syndicate supporting Pip...

Dorset based Barker Group, the largest domestic laundry in the UK and a leading specialists Dry Cleaner, has launched a new arm to its delivery services, called ‘Barker Room Service.’ MD, Matthew Barker said “The ‘Barker Room Service’ was conceived from much valued...

Barker Laundry featured in the Sunday Telegraph’s ‘Best of British’ Magazine – 28th June 2020

Dorset based Barker, the largest domestic laundry in the UK and a leading specialists Dry Cleaner, is promoting its contactless dry cleaning and laundry services and advises its clients that effective laundering and dry cleaning will help to kill Coronavirus germs. MD...

Barker is supporting MyTime Young Carers Employability Programme. MyTime is a Dorset charity providing young carers with support, friendship and opportunities. The Employability Programme seeks to support young adult carers, aged 18 to 25, who are currently not...

Dorset based Barker, the largest domestic laundry in the UK and a leading specialists Dry Cleaner, has received a low carbon grant funding award of £25,000, allocated by Dorset Council’s ‘Low Carbon Dorset’ programme. ‘Low Carbon Dorset’ is a 3-year programme of...

Each week Dorset Business News features a member of Dorset’s business community and asks them for answers to our part fun/part serious questionnaire. This week they featured our very own Managing Director, Matthew Barker. His first record was a ‘rubbish’ single by...

MD Matthew Barker was featured on Sam Fraser’s BBC Radio Solent programme in Sam’s daily ‘Live, Look, Learn’ feature. It’s an engaging 60- minute conversation during which listeners learn more about the Barker heritage, Barker Brand, detachable collars, eco ambitions...

Barker Group is proud to have joined the business syndicate that is supporting Vendee Globe yachtswoman, Pip Hare. The syndicate has been formed in order to make backing the challenge as socially inclusive – and affordable – as possible. Pip is Poole based and is just...

We’re delighted to have been featured in the February 2020 edition of the Dorset Magazine.

Barker’s Managing Director and Chair of Trustees for MyTime, Matt Barker, recently joined the rest of the MyTime team to get into the festive spirit. MYTime provides young carers with a break at its outdoor centre in Worth Matravers, Dorset. It’s an opportunity for...

Krista Cartlidge is settling into her role as Executive Director at MYTime Young Carers Charity. Matthew Barker, Managing Director of barker and Chair of Trustees at MYTime Young Carers Charity, said: “We are delighted to welcome Krista on board. “The charity has...

Take a look at the latest press coverage featuring our tenth year of support for Bournemouth Rugby Club

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Barker in Dorset has offered its support to the 2020 Vendee Globe competitor, Pip Hare, by signing up as an official partner. The successful sailor and marine journalist, who hails from Poole, will be lining up in November 2020, along with 30 international skippers to...

Downton Abbey has sparked a revival in men wearing formal starched collars with their eveningwear. Here’s how to recreate the Earl of Grantham’s look for yourself.

A Bournemouth-based firm has become one of only 160 companies in the world to receive royal approval, for supplying a high quality laundry service to the family home of the Prince of Wales. Local laundry and dry cleaning service, Anthony A Barker Ltd, better known as...

THEY provide a stylish elegance more commonly associated with a bygone era. But the world’s last remaining starched collar laundry is now doing a booming trade in a British seaside town – thanks to period TV dramas such as Downton Abbey. A century ago, starched...