All British Baker articles in April 2006 – Page 3
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National Doughnut Week: rewarding effort
Lathams craft bakery in Southport, Lancashire, has been involved in National Doughnut Week, which this year runs from May 6 to 13, since the outset. Here, Chris Latham describes what his bakery gets up to during the week in order to raise money for The Children’s Trust charity – ...
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The Domino effect
Supermarkets are increasingly issuing challenges to food manufacturers to improve the accuracy of the date coding and labelling of their products. The baking industry is no exception and bread manufacturers are being asked to apply vital data, such as batch codes and date codes, directly on to the bread bags, ...
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Environmentally friendly demand
Two important trends in bakery packaging are being driven by consumer demand, says Robert Tindal, marketing director at Manchester-based Reynards. “The most common enquiries at last month’s Food & Bake were for environmentally-friendly (EF) packs and those which promote the baker’s own brand image,” he says. Consumer demand for EF ...
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NewsSayers jobs under review as it loses Kwik Save deal
Lyndale Foods has started a consultation with staff over 180 proposed job losses at its Sayers bakery in Liverpool, following the loss of a Kwik Save contract.The firm says 140 full-time and 40 part-time jobs at the bakery and in administrative functions could be affected. Half of Sayers’ output was ...
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Cups target dry food-to-go trend
Finnish packaging board producer Stora Enso is producing airtight paperboard cups for European food brand owners. The new cups are used for packing dry foods, including snacks, cereals and confectionery.The firm says the paperboard cup meets growing consumer demand for environmentally sustainable packaging and user-friendly convenience. The cup, based on ...
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Smart coder for Warburtons
Warburtons is using a Markem SmartLase 100i laser coder to apply variable date codes to its boxes of All in One Riddlers pre-filled bread rolls. The company chose the coder to print ‘best before’ and ‘display until’ dates, as well as traceability codes on to the cardboard packaging, when it ...
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NewsRichemont Club hears from an Italian master
An audience of 75 members from the British branch of the Richemont Club witnessed a recent demonstration of Italian baking by international president Piergiorgio Giorilli.The master baker, consul-tant and lecturer made 14 different products, of which the ciabatta and Mediterranean breads were particularly approved. To British eyes the dough for ...
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In Brief
SAINSBURY’S is integrating all its supermarket counter and self-service retail scales and bakery printers into a centralised system, said to be the world’s first. It will cover its main 450 stores.The project is being carried out in partnership with Avery Weigh-Tronix, and a roll-out programme for the system is nearing ...
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NewsBrace’s plans to head south with new plant
Welsh bakery Brace’s is planning to open a facility outside Wales as it builds its business in the south of England.The plant baker. which currently has two plants in Crumlin, Newport, is looking at potential sites in the south, operations director Jonathan Brace told British Baker.He said Brace’s has seen ...
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McCambridge bid for Cooke’s
Dublin’s McCambridge Group has tabled a formal offer for rival company Cooke’s Bakery, currently in examinership, the Irish equivalent of receivership.Accountant Neil Hughes, who was appointed examiner of Cooke’s in early February, will ask the bakery’s creditors and shareholders to approve the sale at a series of meetings this month. ...
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Bakery van theft
Police are hunting for a wholesale baker’s van, which went missing twice in a week.The Suzuki Carry van was taken from Knicat bakery in Downham, Norfolk, after burglars broke into the bakery and stole its keys. Two days later, owner Susan Gooding-Lewis got a call from a man in Greenwich, ...
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NewsThe Worshipful Company of Bakers celebrates an historic occasion
City of London Livery Company, the Worshipful Company of Bakers, whose first record dates back to 1155, marked another historic occasion on April 3, 2006. During a Court Meeting held at Bakers Hall, Jean Grieves and Hugh Weeks were admitted to the Freedom of the Company by Presentation – the ...
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NewsWest Midlands baker comes to Firkins’ rescue
Birmingham bakery chain M Firkin has been rescued from administration by baker Ian Bolderston, in a deal supported by flour miller Heygates and completed on April 12.The sale of Firkins’ 54 shops across the West Midlands and its West Bromwich bakery secures over 300 jobs, and comes after Firkins called ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Many of the stupid announcements by politicians must irritate you as much as they do me. That arch feminist – she from planet Pluto not Venus – Ms Patricia Hewitt, the then Minister for Trade and Industry who, to the best of my knowledge, has never started, run a business ...
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Aulds receives ’A’ rating
After a fire destroyed its Inchinnan-based premises in Renfrewshire in September last year, Scottish retail and wholesale bakery Aulds faced a major challenge. The original plant had provided frozen desserts to a range of leading foodservice companies, as well as snack products to high-profile supermarket groups, such as Tesco ...
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Biodegradable bakery assets
Tri-Star (Enfield, Middlesex), is claiming to supply the world’s first ever clear biodegradable sandwich wedge. Available nationally, the product is both biodegradable and biocompostable.The specially formulated material used to make the wedges is manufactured from polylactic acid (PLA), derived from dextrose obtained from corn starch. The material, which is safe ...
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Glasgow bakery reveals ambitious growth plans
Glasgow wholesale bakery D McGhee & Sons has revealed it plans to double turnover and boost its market share this year.The company, which moved to a £6.8m state-of-the-art bakery at the M8 food park in Glasgow last summer, is already making more than one million rolls a week.Gordon McGhee, MD ...
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Allied Bakeries feels pinch in latest results
Associated British Foods said performance of its Allied Bakeries division was unsatisfactory as it posted its interim results this week.While the group’s sales rose by 10% to £2,887 million, adjusted pre-tax profits fell by 2% to £225m in the 24 weeks to March 4, 2006 compared to the same period ...
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Anthony Alan Foods
Anthony Alan Foods (Barnsley, South Yorkshire), manufacturer of Weight Watchers-branded cakes, is producing the goods in a variety of shelf-ready packaging, including individual, twin and triple sizes. The packaging is designed to improve handling, increase product profile and enhance sales. Weight Watchers has produced counter display units to promote the ...
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NewsFunding lets Irwin’s further healthy aims
Northern Irish baker Irwin’s has been awarded funding from the Irish Central Border Area Network (ICBAN) to develop its range of “smart breads”.Irwin’s intends to use the new £28,000 grant to develop breads aimed at tackling a range of health issues in Northern Ireland. MD Brian Irwin said the ...