All British Baker articles in April 2006 – Page 5
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Tap & Go card set to cut queue times
Shoppers purchasing items worth less than £10 may soon be able to pay by simply tapping their debit card on a terminal before walking away.MasterCard’s new Tap & Go system, which will offer retailers much lower payment processing charges than on normal credit or debit card transactions, does not require ...
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Murdoch Allan grows with Asda
Scottish wholesale and retail baker Murdoch Allan says it is seeing massive sales growth after signing a supply deal with supermarket Asda in January 2005.The Hatton-based baker now supplies nine Asda stores in Scotland with 40 bakery lines, including bread, buns, butte-ries and biscuits. And managing diretor Paul Allan told ...
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Compass aims for June completion on brand sale
Catering giant Compass plans to complete the sale of brands, including Upper Crust, Millie’s Cookies and Caffè Ritazza, to new owner EQT Partners after announcing the deal this week.The brands form part of its Select Service Partner (SSP) division, which has 2,000 outlets at airports, train stations and roadside service ...
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Bread prices rise again as energy costs hit bakers
Warburtons has become the latest plant baker to increase prices on its bread, with Wales’ Brace’s Bakery saying it plans to follow suit. Warburtons blamed rising energy prices and other overheads for an increase across its range, including around 5p to 6p on an 800g loaf. For example, its 800g ...
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ASA raps Allied over advert
Allied Bakeries has been forced to withdraw a television advertisement for Kingsmill Wholegrain & White bread, after being rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority.The advertisement, launched in January, claims the product is “The only white bread with the extra goodness of the whole of the grain but without any bits!” ...
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19th Bakery Industry Awards
This week our focus is on the In-Store Bakery Award, sponsored by Macphie of Glenbervie. In-store bakeries are an important part of any superstore, with the smell of the freshly-baked bread wafting through the aisles and tempting customers to buy. But to be a successful manager of an in-store bakery, ...
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NewsViewpoint
Is the plant baking industry getting more profitable? That is the question raised by the new 2006 Key Note report into bread and Bakery Products. The report rounds up latest figures lodged with Companies House. One company is certainly doing alright for itself. No prizes for guessing it’s Warburtons, which ...
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Taste, not waist
The Weight Watchers range of muffins, produced under license by from Anthony Alan Foods, (Barnsley, Yorkshire) is good news not only for those looking to lose weight, but all cake-lovers.“We’ve developed healthy choices without sacrificing any taste,” says Mark Rooza, sales director of Anthony Alan Foods. The selection includes double ...
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NewsMake muffins in a matter of moments
Bakels (Bicester, Oxon) offers mixes for producing US-style muffins quickly and easily.The company’s Cake Muffin Concentrate and Chocolate Muffin Concentrate are described as economical mixes requiring the addition of flour, sugar, water, oil and egg to make muffins with good volume, flavour and shelf-life. Both are available in 12.5kg bags. ...
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The Last Word
Tony Reed, until very recently, pulled the strings of a gargantuan bakery operation worth £1bn – amounting to almost a third of the value of the entire baking industry. So when he repeatedly spun his catchphrase “follow the money” to bakery suppliers at last month’s British Society of Baking Spring ...
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NewsKluman highlights recipe for muffin success
What is the secret of making successful double chocolate-chip muffins? Bakery specialist Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Herts) says it has the answer – good quality American-style ingredients and a foolproof recipe. As well as supplying the Multifoods Creme Cake Base, which makes muffin batter, and three types of chocolate ...
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Queen of Hearts joins Husseys at McCambridge
Dublin-based McCam-bridge Group has acquired Oxford-based cakes supplier Queen of Hearts as it expands its UK operations.The £5 million turnover wholesaler and retail supplier went into administration in February and was bought out by McCambridge on March 17. It will be run alongside the rapidly expanding McCam-bridge Group’s Husseys Bakery ...
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Rollover gives pizzazz to US-style events
Managing director David Sanger of Rollover (Slough, Bucks) comments: “Hot dogs were reputedly invented in Germany but they have become an American institution and are an essential part of any US-themed event or promotion. “Hot dogs are one of the top food-on-the-go snacks and Rollover is a leading player in ...
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News‘Eat your greens’
Parents have a good understanding of what constitutes healthy eating, but this is not being translated into the necessary improvements in their children’s diet.This is a key finding from new research by Hovis that showed almost a third of parents admitted they struggled to ensure their children ate healthily. As ...
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NewsNational Doughnut Week: Join the fun!
Making James’s Life Worth Living A huge number of bakers have already registered for this year’s National Doughnut Week, sponsored by BakeMark UK, which runs from May 6-13. The funds you raise will make a real difference to the lives of children and their families. As we reported last week, ...
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NewsEaster displays
Easter is only a week away, so get ready to enter our Easter display competition. To take part you will need to send us a colour photograph of your Easter-themed window display, especially if it wows your neighbourhood. Next week’s issue will contain full competition details and rules, but you ...
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Dawn Foods reduces sodium and cuts fat, but keeps taste
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) has developed a number of low-fat and lower-sodium products that enable bakers to cater for the more health conscious consumer, the company says.Its new low-fat and lower-sodium cake and muffin mix is 97% fat-free and has less than 300mg of sodium per 100g serving.Consumers traditionally have ...
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DESIGNER CHIC
Tiny blurred images, gaudy colours, fussy layouts with ugly fonts – a quick trawl of online bakery retailers yields a pretty sad collective. ‘It is the quality of product that is important,’ a baker might say. But the maxim ‘never judge a book by its cover’ does not apply when ...
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Cornish pasty chain expands
Cornish pasty franchise Oggy Oggy, owned by New-quay-based Crantock Bakery, is planning to establish another 15 to 20 shops this year.Currently there are 10 company-owned stores in Devon and Cornwall and 25 franchise operations. The new outlets will be located nationwide and will either be take-away premises or a take-away ...