Case Study: Bakers Delight Holdings achieves centralized security and reliable SD‑WAN across 650+ stores with Fortinet

For Multinational Bakery Chain, Tight Security Is Baked into the Infrastructure

Bakers Delight Holdings, a Melbourne-based bakery franchise with about 650 stores across Australia and North America (operating as COBS Bread in North America), needed to replace aging edge routers as demand from online ordering and delivery apps expanded their attack surface. The company sought a small-footprint, affordable solution with SD‑WAN, strong security, and centralized management to simplify franchise deployments and protect backhauled store traffic.

Bakers Delight deployed Fortinet solutions—FortiGate NGFWs with Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN, managed via FortiManager and logged with FortiAnalyzer—using zero-touch provisioning and 4G LTE automatic failover. The integrated solution delivered IPS/IDS, antivirus, application control, single-pane security visibility, faster onboarding of delivery partners, high uptime, and reduced operational overhead across ~650 locations on two continents.

Bakers Delight Holdings

Dragan Panjkovic

Infrastructure and Security Manager