All British Baker articles in April 2009 – Page 8

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    Baker heads up top job at Maple Leaf UK

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has announced the appointment of Peter Baker as the new head of its UK operations, Maple Leaf Bakery UK. He will take over the role of MD, effective 6 April, after Maple Leaf’s parent firm Canada Bread announced the departure of former MD Peter Maycock last ...

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    Baker heads up top job at Maple Leaf UK

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has announced the appointment of Peter Baker as the new head of its UK operations, Maple Leaf Bakery UK. He will take over the role of MD, effective 6 April, after Maple Leaf’s parent firm Canada Bread announced the departure of former MD Peter Maycock last ...

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    Baker heads up top job at Maple Leaf UK

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has announced the appointment of Peter Baker as the new head of its UK operations, Maple Leaf Bakery UK. He will take over the role of MD, effective 6 April, after Maple Leaf’s parent firm Canada Bread announced the departure of former MD Peter Maycock last ...

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    The In-Store Bakery Award

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    In-store bakeries (ISBs) are perfectly placed to meet today’s consumer demands for freshly made food and retail theatre. This is why the In-store Bakery Award is such an important category at this year’s Baking Industry Awards.An integral part of the supermarket offering, the ISB gives consumers an experience to enjoy ...

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    Aulds indulges in desserts

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Aulds Delicious Desserts has put two puddings together to create its newest product, Fruit Fusion.The dessert - a combination of a gateau and cheesecake - uses sticky toffee pudding sponge with a layer of orange-infused cheese-cake and cranberry pieces, sprinkled with fruits, including cranberries, cherries and sultanas.Aulds plans four more ...

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    In the Archives

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Some of our readers inform us that they have been doing a good trade during the very hot weather with their American soda fountains. We are glad to learn this, for a year or two ago, we devoted a good deal of space to up-to-date formulae for American drinks, and ...

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    Bread for April Fools

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Bread must have been on the minds of staff writers on publications up and down the country as a bakery theme emerged during a predic-table spate of ’hilarious’ April Fools’ Day spoofs.While BB resisted the age-old temptation to post a made-up tale on bakeryinfo.co.uk, other publications were more than up ...

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    Peck & Strong makes jump to much larger site

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Devon-based company Peck & Strong is defying the current climate by moving to a new production site, four times the size of its existing one.The new site comprises a 14,000sq ft bakery and an additional 1,500sq ft, which will be used for office space and accommodation for its 14 employees.The ...

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    Peck & Strong makes jump to much larger site

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Devon-based company Peck & Strong is defying the current climate by moving to a new production site, four times the size of its existing one.The new site comprises a 14,000sq ft bakery and an additional 1,500sq ft, which will be used for office space and accommodation for its 14 employees.The ...

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    Less than alluring

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Making a bid to become bakers’ public enemy number one is ageing ex-supermodel (miaow) Cindy Crawford, whose baker-baiting bread abuse was snapped for a photoshoot in the April issue of US women’s magazine Allure. The image of 43-year-old Crawford tearing up a loaf in the mag’s ’anti-ageing issue’ was captioned ...

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    Ale and hearty

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    There are few people in the industry more passionate about training than self-styled Geordie Baker Ian Thomson. You’d also be hard pressed to find a baker more single-minded about getting booze into bread, but more of that later. Now sat in the chair guiding the NSA’s bakery steering group, having ...

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    60-second Sales Pitch

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Russell Wheeler, S Black Ltd, Technical sales manager - food ingredients== So, what are Haco Coffee extracts? ==Haco of Switzerland is one of Europe’s leading coffee processors and its coffees are produced from selected, freshly roasted green Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, in their decaffeinated or pure form, available ...

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    Next issue 24 April

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    lInterviewWe visit flour miller FWP Matthews to find out why it is investing in its business, as Paul Matthews reveals the challenges facing the organics marketlSugar & marzipanHow is the crackdown on artificial food colours in the UK and fears over hyperactivity in kids affecting the cake ...

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    British Baker makes Twitter debut

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    British Baker is now on Twitter – the real-time social networking and micro-blogging website that allows people or companies to update their ‘followers’ on their latest news.Twitter has taken the internet by storm and is now being used by bakers as a method of communication with their customers.Among those posting ...

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    British Baker makes Twitter debut

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    British Baker is now on Twitter – the real-time social networking and micro-blogging website that allows people or companies to update their ‘followers’ on their latest news.Twitter has taken the internet by storm and is now being used by bakers as a method of communication with their customers.Among those posting ...

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    Greggs scales up waste management

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Greggs has been working with recycling and waste management specialist Biffa in order to cut down the amount of waste it sends to landfill.The bakery retailer, currently has over 1,400 shops and uses Biffa for the majority of its recycling. The two will now be trialling new recycling schemes involving the creation of energy from waste, composting and aerobic digestion, as well as other methods of waste disposal.

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    Craft baker heads up bakery skills delivery strategy

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    A well-respected baker has been tasked with driving the design of new industry training courses developed by the National Skills Academy (NSA) for Food and Drink Manufacturing, part of sector skills council Improve.Ian Thomson, a second generation Master Baker and proprietor of Thomson’s bakery in Newcastle, has been appointed chairman of the NSA’s bakery steering group, which is made up of leading industry employers and stakeholders.

  • News

    British Baker makes Twitter debut

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    British Baker is now on Twitter – the real-time social networking and micro-blogging website that allows people or companies to update their ‘followers’ on their latest news.Twitter has taken the internet by storm and is now being used by bakers as a method of communication with their customers.

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    Baker appointed as new Maple Leaf MD

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has announced the appointment of Peter Baker as the new head of bakery at its UK operations, Maple Leaf Bakery UK. He will take over the role of managing director, effective 6 April, after Maple Leaf’s parent company Canada Bread announced the departure of previous MD ...

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    Costa breaks 900-store mark

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Costa Coffee today (Wednesday, 8 April) broke through the 900-store mark as the branded coffee shop sector showed little sign of recessionary slowdown. With the opening of a new outlet in London’s Piccadilly on Wednesday, a spokesperson told British Baker that Costa would be opening 100 stores in 2009, despite initial industry uncertainty about how recession would affect café culture.