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							                                               BAIRDS MALT LTD

                                           CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT

This contract of employment includes the statement of Terms and Conditions of employment
required by part I of the Employment Rights Act 1996 between:

Employee name and Bairds Malt Limited, Station Maltings, Witham, Essex.

For the purposes of this contract the Company means Bairds Malt Limited and (where the
contexts so admits) any company in the Bairds Malt Group of Companies.

Your employment with the Company began on date. Your period of continuous employment for
the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 began on date.

Your employment with the Company is in accordance with the Company’s Policies, Rules and
Procedures (referred hereafter as the “Staff Handbook”) a copy of which will be provided to you.
The Staff Handbook including the Company’s Policies, Rules and Procedures is neither
contractual nor legally binding.

You are responsible for ensuring that the Company is kept appraised of accurate details
appertaining to your personal information and details of your personal circumstances that may
impact upon your employment or employment records.

Your employment is subject at all times to your continued right to legally work in the UK. You
must advise the Company of any change in your circumstances which might affect your right to
legally work in the UK.

Job Title

Your job title is employee job title. You will be responsible to the manager’s title.

The Company reserves the right at any time during your employment, upon reasonable notice,
to require you to undertake any different and/or additional duties which the Company
reasonably considers fall within your skill and competence.

Place of Work

Your place of work is employees’ location address.

The Company shall be entitled to require you to work at or travel to other locations or offices in
the UK in order to fulfil the duties of your role on a temporary or regular basis and the Company
shall endeavour to give as much notice as possible of any such requirements.

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In addition the Company may require you to travel abroad on such occasions as your duties
from time to time reasonably require.

Probationary Period

Your employment with the Company will be subject to a probationary period of six months.
During this time your performance will be reviewed and assessed for continued employment
within the Company. Prior to the end of your probationary period, your performance will be
reviewed and, if found satisfactory, your employment will be confirmed. The Company reserves
the right to extend the probationary period up to one year upon notification to you. At any time
during your probationary period either party may terminate your contract by giving to the other
not less than one week's notice in writing. Throughout the probationary period your employment
can be terminated at any time without reference to the disciplinary procedure.

After the successful completion of your probationary period, the notice provisions outlined under
the heading Notice will apply.

Remuneration

Your annual salary is £employee salary gross which is payable monthly on the 15th of each
calendar month except when that day falls on a weekend or public holiday, in such
circumstances salaries are then paid on the nearest preceding day. The payment made on 15th
covers the period from the 1st of any month to the last day of that month, part in arrears and
part in advance. Your salary is paid by direct credit transfer to your personal bank account.

It should be noted that the Company may, at its discretion, pay your final salary on leaving by
cheque payment on your last day of employment.

Your salary will be reviewed annually. Any increase in salary will be at the entire discretion of
the Company.

The Company reserves the right to recover from you:

        Any money which is owed and payable by you to the Company, howsoever arising;
        The cost of repairing any damage to Company property which you have caused or
         contributed to or for which you are reasonably responsible;
        The cost of replacing any damage to or Company property lost, stolen or damaged whilst
         in the possession or custody of you or under your control.

The Company may recover such sums by:

        Deducting it from any sums payable to you by the Company (including your salary)
         whether by way of one such deduction or a series of deductions; and/or
        Requiring you to repay to the Company the relevant amount (or the balance remaining
         outstanding following such deductions as the Company thinks fit) whether immediately
         or on terms otherwise acceptable to the Company.


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The Company retains the right to recover any such sums from you through the courts.

Any such amount to be deducted shall be a reasonable estimate of the loss suffered by the
Company.

Hours of Work

Your normal hours of work are 35 per week comprising; Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm with a
one hour unpaid break to be taken at a time to suit the needs of the business.

However, due to the particular needs of your position in the company it is expected that you will
work such reasonable hours as the demands of the job and needs of the business may require.

Overtime

As a salaried employee you should note that no payment is made or time off granted in lieu, for
hours worked over and above your normal hours of work.

Holiday Entitlement

You are entitled to 20 days holiday per year. An employee who commences or ends
employment midway through a calendar year will have a pro rata entitlement based on the
number of days worked in that year.

In addition the eight public holidays plus any other officially proclaimed public holidays are to be
taken in accordance with the Company's holiday procedure as set out in the Staff Handbook.

Your entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis according to your work pattern, details of
which are attached in the Appendix to this contract.

Please note that public holidays are included in your holiday entitlement and as such when a
public holiday falls on a day you would normally be expected to work, you will be required to use
a day of your holiday entitlement.

All annual holidays are to be completed between 1st January and 31st December of each year.
You may not carry over holiday from one holiday year into another.

All holidays shall be fixed in agreement with your manager.

Holiday Pay

You will be paid at your full basic rate of pay for all holidays, including public holidays, taken
within the holiday allowance limits specified under holiday entitlement above.

Employment legislation dictates that it is not possible to pay in lieu of holiday allowance other
than on termination of employment.


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Accrued Holiday Pay

If at the date of termination of your employment with the Company you have a holiday
entitlement which you have not yet taken, you will normally be required to take that leave
during any period of notice given to or by you. If at the effective date of termination of your
employment there is still annual leave due to you, subject to the provisions of the following
paragraph you will be paid accrued pay in respect of those days at the rate otherwise applicable
as holiday pay at the time. The payment will be in addition to any other payments due to you
from the Company.

Refund of Holiday Pay

It is a term of your contract of employment that, should your employment with the Company
cease at any time during a year, the Company will be entitled to deduct from your final payment
of remuneration an amount equivalent to one day's pay for each day of annual leave taken by
you during the current year which exceeds your accrued annual leave entitlement. If your final
salary payment is insufficient to allow for the whole of such a deduction, you will be required to
repay the outstanding amount to Bairds Malt Ltd within one month of the ending of the
termination of your employment.

If you leave the Company without giving notice in accordance with your notice period, or having
given less than the full amount of notice required (unless with the Company’s agreement), the
Company reserves the right to deduct from any payment otherwise due to you on the
termination of your employment (including salary) such sum as reasonably reflects the financial
loss suffered by the Company as a result of your breach. Any such deduction shall not in total
exceed the salary you would have earned had you worked your notice period. This claim is
without prejudice to the Company’s legal rights against you for breach of contract.

Pension

There is a Company Stakeholder pension scheme applicable to your employment, provided you
have worked for three months and are eligible to join the scheme. The pension provider will
issue details of the scheme to you shortly after you join. You will be automatically entered into
the scheme unless you elect to opt out using the Bairds Malt Stakeholder Pension Scheme Opt
Out form. The scheme is operated in conjunction with a salary exchange arrangement which you
will automatically be entered into unless you opt out using the Pension Salary Exchange Opt Out
form.

The Company reserves the right to change the basis or scale of benefit or to amend the scheme
provisions.

Private Medical Insurance

The Company will meet the cost of private medical insurance for you/and your partner/family
should you wish to join the scheme and if according to the provider you are eligible to join the
scheme. The benefit is taxable and will be declared on your P11D at the end of the tax year.
You will be issued with the full details and rules of the scheme.

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Car Allowance

The allowance is non pensionable and is paid each calendar month with your salary. Should you
be absent from work for a period greater than 26 weeks in a rolling 52 week period, payment of
the car allowance will be reviewed.

You are required to ensure that you have a car available to carry out your duties and that it is
insured for business purposes.

It is a condition of your continued employment that you hold a current driving licence. You will
be required to produce your driving licence, insurance details and vehicle for inspection on an
annual basis at a time specified by the Company.

If your driving licence is endorsed for any reason or you are disqualified from driving, you must
inform your manager immediately.

Mobile Telephone

The Company will provide you with a mobile telephone to assist you in the performance of your
duties. The Company will bear all reasonable business expenses of the telephone. Occasional,
limited and appropriate personal use of Company mobile phone is permitted and a trust policy
operates in this respect. Any excessive personal use is expected to be declared and repaid via
the Accounts department. You must not use a mobile phone or any similar device, whether
hand-held or hands-free, whilst driving or in control of a motor vehicle whilst on Company
business. The vehicle must be stopped and the engine turned off before a mobile phone or any
similar device is used.

Absence

In the event of your absence for whatever reason you should contact your Manager on the first
day of the absence within an hour of your normal start time to inform him/her of the reason for
your absence. Where your manager is available before the commencement of your normal start
time, you are required to inform them of your absence one hour prior to that start time. If the
absence is due to sickness an absence record form should be completed on your return to work.
The form will be supplied to you.

During any period of personal sickness or injury, whether sustained at work or outside of work,
SSP will be paid in accordance with the scheme rules and subject to the production of
satisfactory evidence. The company operates a discretionary sick pay scheme for employees
who have successfully completed their probationary period, and properly certificated absence
will result in the payment of salary for the eligible period, as set out in the Staff Handbook,
subject to the notification rules being followed. In determining the entitlement to payment, any
periods of paid absence occurring during the 12 months immediately preceding the first day of a
further period of absence will be taken into account. Thereafter, Statutory Sick Pay will apply
accordingly, if the qualifying conditions for this have been met.


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This agreement is your notice that there is no contractual right to payment in excess of Statutory
Sick Pay in respect of periods of absence due to sickness or incapacity. Any payments in excess
of Statutory Sick Pay are at the discretion of the Company and may be withdrawn at any time.

If you are absent from work for any reason for longer than 26 weeks, your Terms and Conditions
of Employment will revert to the statutory minimum where applicable, and should you be
absent for any reason for longer than 52 weeks all benefits will cease to apply unless otherwise
determined by statute.

You may be asked at any time during your employment to undergo a medical examination in
respect of your absence or illness.

You consent to the Company telephoning or contacting you at home during a period of absence
in respect of your absence, return to work or work related matters.

If there is evidence that there is little hope of you returning to employment and being capable of
satisfactory performance within a reasonable period of time, the Company may, at its sole
discretion, elect to give appropriate Notice of Termination.

The payment to you of any salary under this agreement shall be subject to a deduction (in the
event of your having been unable to perform your duties under this agreement due to an
accident caused by a third party) of an amount equal to the amount of damages subsequently
recovered by you from the third party in respect of the accident. You will use all reasonable
endeavours to recover such damages.

Other Activities

You shall devote your full time and attention to the proper performance of your duties under
this agreement. During the continuance of this agreement you shall not engage in any activity
capable of detracting from the proper performance of your duties. In particular you shall not
(whether during or outside working hours) engage in, carry on or be interested or concerned in
any other business trade profession or occupation whatsoever other than that for the time
being carried on by the Company, without the prior consent, in writing, of the Company which
shall not be unreasonably withheld. Failure to comply with this policy may result in disciplinary
proceedings.


Data Protection

You hereby consent that the Company may hold personal data in relation to your employment
with the Company and be required to process data within the requirements of the Data
Protection Act 1998.

Duty of Confidentiality

It is strictly forbidden to make any copy, abstract, summary or précis of the whole or part of any
document relating to the business activities of the Company except where expressly authorised

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so to do or in the proper performance of your duties. All records, papers and documents kept or
made by you relating to the business of the Company shall be and remain the property of the
Company and shall be surrendered by you to your departmental head on the termination of
employment or at the request of the Company at any time during the course of employment.

It is strictly forbidden whether during your employment with the Company or at any time
following the termination of your employment howsoever determined, unless expressly
authorised in writing by the Company, to disclose to any unauthorised person or use any
unauthorised information relating to the business affairs or trade secrets of the Company or any
associated Company. This includes any details whether personal or otherwise about the
Company or its customers, actual, prospective or past.

Breach of this clause is a serious disciplinary offence and may render you liable to civil
proceeding to restrain you from disclosing the information to a third party of making personal
use of it without prior written consent from a Director or for damages for loss suffered by the
Company or any Associated Companies. Examples of confidential information include, but are
not limited to, the customer and Client Database, Supplier Database, Profitability Ratios,
Bespoke Computer Software, all pricing information, manufacturing techniques, product designs
and inventions. This fidelity requirement will apply throughout the duration of the contract of
employment, including during any period of notice irrespective of whether you are required to
work during the notice period.

Nothing in the above paragraph should be construed or interpreted as preventing you from
making a ‘protected disclosure’ within the meaning of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. If
you wish to make such a disclosure, you should first raise this issue with an executive who you
believe is not involved in the relevant matter.

You shall return to the Company on request from time to time and on the termination of your
employment, all notes and records, including any information held in electronic form, (including
copies) made by you relating to your work for the Company and all other material containing
confidential information of the Company, or any Associated Companies, and all documents,
materials and things which are the property of the Company ,or any Associated Companies, or
its clients and customers and all copies thereof. You must also permanently delete any such
information stored electronically on any disk or other medium not returned to the Company.

Outside Communications

It is strictly forbidden to make contact with or communicate with any member of the press or
media or anyone so connected on behalf of the Company unless in the proper performance of
your duties or after obtaining the prior written permission of your immediate manager or
director. It is also forbidden to publish any letters, articles or otherwise purport to represent the
Company (other than in the ordinary course of your duties) unless you have obtained prior
permission in writing from your immediate manager or director.

Failure to comply with any of the provisions in the preceding clauses entitled Other Activities,
Duty of Confidentiality, Outside Communications, will if the circumstances warrant it be
regarded as gross misconduct for which you may be liable to summary dismissal.

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Security

You will be required to ensure that all documents, papers, correspondence etc pertaining to the
business and legitimately taken off the premises are secure at all times.

Disciplinary Rules

The Company has disciplinary rules to ensure that high standards of behaviour and performance
are maintained at all times. Details of the procedure can be found in the Staff Handbook. The
disciplinary rules do not form part of your contract of employment.

The Company reserves the contractual right to suspend you from work temporarily on basic pay
in circumstances which the company considers to be particularly serious or where further
investigation is needed.

The Company reserves the right to change the disciplinary rules upon notification to you.

Grievance Procedure

The Company has grievance procedures to ensure that problems which may arise in connection
with your job can be resolved quickly. Details of the procedure can be found in the Staff
Handbook. The grievance rules do not form part of your contract of employment.

The Company reserves the right to change the grievance procedures upon notification to you.

Health and Safety

You must comply with the Company Health and Safety Policy and Safety Procedures as posted
on the Company notice boards and as documented within the Health & Safety database. These
procedures may be changed from time to time by Management or due to revisions in Health and
Safety Legislation.

You are responsible for ensuring that you act in a safe and sensible manner whilst at your place
of work and failure to do so will lead to disciplinary action by the Company and possibly criminal
proceedings under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

E-mail and Internet

You understand that e-mail traffic and Internet access may be monitored by the Company from
time to time and that the content of any e-mail received or sent by you using the Company’s
systems will not be private or confidential to you. You are expressly forbidden to use the
internet for, or access any internet site or send or distribute any email message or attachment,
that includes any intimidating, hostile or offensive material on the basis of age, sex, race, colour,
religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, disability, marriage and civil
partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other material considered to be otherwise


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offensive or inappropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Company. Any breach by you of this
clause is a disciplinary matter which may include dismissal for gross misconduct.

Post Termination Covenants

In the course of your employment you will have access to confidential information about the
Company and its business, clients, suppliers and employees, and opportunities to exert influence
on the clients, suppliers and employees of the Company or its Associated Companies with whom
you have personal dealings. The Company has legitimate interests in the protection of such
confidential information from unauthorised disclosure and misuse, the connection with and the
goodwill of its clients and suppliers and the retention of the services of its employees. The
purpose of the following provisions of this clause is to afford necessary and reasonable
protection to those interests.

You hereby covenant with the Company (for itself) or its Associated Companies that you will not
(whether directly or indirectly, or whether solely or jointly with or as shareholder, participator,
partner, promoter, director, officer, agent, manager, employee, consultant or independent
contractor of, in or to any other person, firm or company):

         for the period of three/six/twelve months after the termination of your employment
         with the Company, carry on or be engaged or concerned within the United Kingdom in
         any organisation competing with the Company or with any Associated Company of the
         Company: provided that the restrictions in this sub-clause shall not apply where your
         duties shall relate to services of a kind or nature with which you have not been
         concerned to a material extent during the period of 12 months prior to the termination
         of your employment;

         for the period of three/six/twelve months after the termination of your employment
         with the Company, canvass, entice, solicit or endeavour to canvass, entice, solicit away
         from the Company or any Associated Company, or otherwise discourage from dealing
         with the Company or any Associated Company any person, firm or company who or
         which was at the date of the termination of your employment or at any time during the
         period of 12 months immediately preceding the termination of your employment a
         supplier, customer, client, distributor, agent, or independent contractor of or to the
         Company or any Associated Company or who or which had agreed to become such at
         the date of the termination of your employment whether or not such person firm or
         company would commit a breach of contract by reason of transferring business or
         leaving service: provided that this restriction shall only apply to suppliers, customers,
         clients, distributors, agents and independent contractors with whom you shall have had
         personal contact while employed by the Company and during the 12 months
         immediately preceding the termination of your employment;

         for the period of three/six/twelve months after the termination of your employment
         with the Company or any Associated Company, solicit or endeavour to entice away from
         or discourage from remaining employed by the Company or any Associated Company
         any employee or agent of or consultant employed by the Company or any Associated
         Company and with whom you shall have had personal contact while he/she was

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         employed by the Company or any Associated Company and during the 12 months
         immediately preceding the termination of your employment and whether or not such
         employee would commit a breach of contract by reason of leaving service: provided that
         this sub-clause shall not apply in relation to employees other than Consultants, Business
         Development Managers or other Managers;

         for the period of three/six/twelve months after the termination of your employment
         with the Company or any Associated Company, employ or engage (whether as an
         employee, partner, consultant, or otherwise) or attempt to employ or engage or
         negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement by any person, firm or company
         of, any individual who or which is or was at any time during the period of three months
         immediately prior to the termination of your employment an employee of the Company
         or any Associated Company in the capacity of Consultant, Business Development
         Manager or otherwise as a Manager and with whom you shall have had personal
         contact while you were employed by the Company or any Associated Company (and
         during the 12 months immediately preceding the termination of your employment) and
         where such employment or engagement would require such individual to exercise skills
         or knowledge of the same or a similar nature to those acquired or used by him or her
         while employed by the Company or any Associated Company and whether or not such
         individual would commit any breach of contract by reason of leaving service;

         at any time after the termination of your employment, represent yourself as being in
         any way connected with or interested in any business of the Company or any Associated
         Company;

         at any time after the termination of your employment, in any way make use of any
         corporate, business, product or service name which is identical to or likely to be
         confused with the corporate name or any business, product or service name used by the
         Company or any Associated Company at the date of such termination or which might
         suggest a connection with the Company;

         at any time after the termination of your employment, cause or seek to cause to be
         terminated or adversely affected or otherwise interfere with any agreement or
         arrangement of any kind of which you are aware and to which the Company or any
         Associated Company is at the date of the termination of your employment a party to, or
         from which it benefits.

While the restrictions in the above sub-clauses are considered by the Company or any
Associated Company and accepted by you to be reasonable and necessary for the protection of
the legitimate interests of the Company or any Associated Company, nevertheless it is agreed
that the restrictions contained in each of the sub-clauses above shall be construed as separate
and individual restrictions each capable of being applied without prejudice to the other
restrictions or to the remaining provisions of this agreement. If any restriction is held void or
ineffective each of the other restrictions not so held shall remain valid and effective. If any
restriction which as set out in this agreement would be held void or ineffective but would be
valid and effective if a particular word or words or phrase or phrases were omitted, that
restriction shall be applied with the omission of such word or words or phrase or phrases.

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The expression “the Company” where used in this clause includes (where the context admits)
each company which is from time to time the Company’s holding Company or a subsidiary of the
Company or of the Company’s holding Company to the intent and effect that each of the
provisions of this agreement shall apply (as a separate covenant in each case) in relation to each
such company as they apply to the Company.

Garden Leave

The Company shall be under no obligation to assign to you any powers or duties or to provide
any work for you during any period of notice or at any other time, and the Company reserves
the right (as its option) to suspend you from the performance of your duties under this
agreement with full salary to which you may be entitled under this agreement, during the whole
or any part of such period of notice (the exact period to be fixed at the discretion of the
Company) and during that period to exclude you from any premises of the Company, provided
that you shall remain bound by your contractual and implied duties of good faith and fidelity.

Notice

Following the successful completion of your probationary period your contract of employment is
terminable by you giving the Company number of weeks written notice, and the Company will
give you number of weeks written notice, to terminate your contract.

Throughout your employment the Company reserves the right to terminate your contract
without any notice or pay in lieu of notice if it has reasonable grounds to believe you are guilty
of gross misconduct or gross negligence.

The Company reserves the right (at its absolute discretion) with immediate effect, upon
termination of your employment, to make a payment in lieu of notice equivalent to your salary
and contractual benefits for the notice period.

Any notice sent by post shall be deemed to be served 48 hours after it is posted and in proving
such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice was properly addressed and put in the
post.

Nothing in this agreement prevents the Company from terminating the employment summarily
or otherwise and without payment in lieu of notice in the event of any serious breach by you of
the terms and conditions herein or in the event of any act or acts of Gross Misconduct or serious
breach of duty by you.

Severability and Termination

Notwithstanding that the whole or any part of any provision of this agreement may prove to be
illegal or unenforceable the other provisions of this agreement and the remainder of the
provision in question shall continue in full force and effect.



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Any termination of your employment under this agreement (howsoever occasioned) shall not
affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party nor shall any such termination howsoever
caused affect the coming into force or the continuance in force of any provision hereof which is
expressly or by implication intended to come into or continue in force on or after such
termination.

Property to be returned on termination

You are required to deliver to the Company at the end of your employment or immediately
after, should your employment terminate without notice, all papers, documents, keys, credit
cards, cars, overalls, protective clothing and all property belonging to the Company and to make
good any loss or damage.

Collective Agreements

There are no collective agreements in force affecting your employment.

Changes to Terms and Conditions

The Company reserves the right to change these terms and conditions for its reasonable
business purpose and upon consultation and notification in writing to you.




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Signature:                                                  Date:
On behalf of Bairds Malt Limited


I (“you” the Employee) confirm I have received the agreement attached and I understand and
accept the terms and conditions set out herein.

Signature:                                                  Date:
Employee


I hereby consent to waive my right to not work more than an average of 48 hours each week
under the Working Time Regulations 1998. I understand that I have the right to end this
agreement on giving three months written notice to the Company.

Signature:                                                  Date:
Employee

Bairds Malt Limited




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Appendix

Part time holiday calculation
Any special shift pattern or overtime arrangements




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