All British Baker articles in April 2009
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Doughnuts to be labelled as healthy?
Consumer lobby group Which? has brought to light a number of bakery products, which could legally be labelled as being ‘low fat’ if proposed EC regulation get the thumbs up next month.The EC’s regulation (EC) 1924/2006 was passed in May 2006, and was inititally welcomed as it aims to ensure ...
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Costa Coffee plans to offer meal deals
Costa Coffee’s sales have continued to increase, but meal deals may soon be on the menu as like-for-like growth slows.The company has said it will be developing its food offering with, for example, lunchtime meal deals such as a panini and a cappuccino for £4.95. It will also continue to ...
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Profits fall for Maple Leaf Bakery UK
Ontario-based Canada Bread has announced its UK subsidiary, speciality bread and bagel manufacturer, Maple Leaf Bakery UK has seen a drop in earnings for the first quarter to 31 March, 2009. The decline has been put down to “a lower margin product mix” due to the more pronounced affect of ...
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Profits fall for Maple Leaf Bakery UK
Ontario-based Canada Bread has announced its UK subsidiary, speciality bread and bagel manufacturer Maple Leaf Bakery UK, has seen a drop in earnings for the first quarter to 31 March, 2009.
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National Craft Bakers’ Week resources now online
National Craft Bakers’ Week is fast approaching and resources for teachers are now available at www.bakeryinfo.co.uk, for bakers to promote the role of the baker within their community.Running from 8-13 June, the aim of the week is to raise the profile of independent craft bakers - ‘The Shop That Never ...
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Marks & Spencer sandwich supplier suffers sales drop
Marks & Spencer sandwich supplier Uniq reported falling sales in the first three months of the year, down 4.9% on the same period in 2008.The European chilled convenience food group blamed a slowdown in its markets and the later timing of Easter for operating losses, which were slightly lower than ...
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Costa Coffee plans to offer meal deals
Costa Coffee’s sales have continued to increase, but meal deals may soon be on the menu as like-for-like growth slows. The company has said it will be developing its food offering with, for example, lunchtime meal deals such as a panini and a cappuccino for £4.95.
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National Craft Bakers’ Week resources now online
National Craft Bakers’ Week is fast approaching and resources for teachers are now available here, for bakers to promote the role of the baker within their community.
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The Budget - help or hindrance?
There have been mixed reactions from business organisations following the Budget announcement last week. The Food and Drink Federaion (FDF) welcomes a number of the initiatives announced, but the Federation for Private Business (FPB) has said the government is not doing enough to help small businesses.
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== Illegal workers found ==Nine men and one woman were identified as working illegally at the Anglo-Austrian Patisserie in Wimbledon on 15 April, in an operation by The UK Borders Agency. The bakery’s owner has been served a notice of potential liability for employing someone without the right to work, ...
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== Cooplands’ donation ==Cooplands of Doncaster has been inspired to raise money for The Children’s Hospital in Sheffield by five-year-old Grace Sellers, granddaughter of Cooplands’ sales administrator Helen Hulme. Grace is being treated for kidney cancer at the hospital. Cooplands has already raised over £3,000 and the money will be ...
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== Shortlist revealed ==The shortlist for the FreeFrom Food Awards has been announced, with categories including bread and bread mixes, and cakes, muffins and sweet biscuits. The awards, sponsored by Livwell, are to take place on 12 May, during allergy week. The shortlist is available to view at freefromfoodawards.co.uk== Bakery ...
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== Big harvest on cards ==According to the International Grain Council’s latest market report, the 2008/09 harvest is expected to be another bumper year for global wheat production, with estimates of 688m/t. However, over the next three months, the weather will be crucial in determining the quality of the wheat.== ...
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Smooth Sale-ing
Despite the fact the recession is impacting the sales of juices and smoothies, bakers can still market these products to their advantage by focusing on trends that remain strong, such as health. The Americans seem to be ahead of the UK on this one, with many bakery and juice bars ...
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Warburtons’ Tasty options
Warburtons has extended its 600g loaf range with two new products - Tasty White and Tasty Grains & Seeds.Tasty White is a soft white loaf, while Tasty Grains and Seeds is a white loaf with a mix of seeds as well as malted wheat flakes, sunflower seeds and brown ...
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What’s new?
Three Fuji Alpha 6flow-wrappers equipped to create press-to-close reclosable zipper packs have recently been installed in bakeries - two of the machines are being used by a manufacturer of speciality bread products while the third is handling a premium sliced loaf, supported in a tray.What’s so good about that?The ...
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What’s new?
Whatever you want, if tailor-made horizontal flow-wrapping machines and automatic feeding systems are your thing.I like my tailoring bespokeThen SynchroPACK/SynchroFEED would be the company for you. They manufacture a complete range of modular and fully electronic flow-wrapping systems and feeding and handling systems to integrate process equipment with the flow-wrapper.I ...
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What’s new?
An easy way of packaging shortbread fingers - one of the trickier bakery and confectionery products to wrap because they are brittle and tend to crumble during the packaging process. The system is based around the Redpack P325 flow-wrapper, which is found in many bakery and confectionery production units.Do explainThis ...
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What’s new?
Ilapak’s latest packaging machines offer several energy-saving features, including greater thermal efficiency of sealing jaws and rollers and the use of energy recuperation systems in the motor drives.Is that all?Be patient. There’s also a user-friendly operating system to reduce errors, plus an electronic platform capable of ...