All British Baker articles in April 2010 – Page 4
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Organic bakery sales fall
Sales of organic bread and bakery items have plummeted during the recession, according to the latest Organic Market Report.Published today, by the Soil Association, the report revealed that bakery has been one of the hardest hit categories with sales down 39.8% during 2009. Organic biscuit sales fell by 19%.Looking forward ...
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Starbucks and Arla in coffee drink partnership
Starbucks has teamed up with dairy company Arla Foods to launch two new coffee drinks in the UK. Starbucks Discoveries chilled coffees and Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso & Milk are ready-to-drink coffee ranges which will be available in all Starbucks outlets from May. Arla Foods signed a licensing agreement with Starbucks ...
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Local stores fall down on quality and choice
Bread is one of the most commonly bought items from local stores, but shoppers are often disappointed with the shops’ quality and choice, according to a new report from YouGov SixthSense.
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Starbucks and Arla in coffee drink partnership
Starbucks has teamed up with dairy company Arla Foods to launch two new coffee drinks in the UK.
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Organic bakery sales fall
Sales of organic bread and bakery items have plummeted during the recession, according to the latest Organic Market Report.
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In my world
Umer Ashraf is a young entrepreneur who owns the Glasgow-based iCafé chain of shops, as well as smoothie and juice bar Paradise Bay in Oban, ScotlandThe three words to describe my last month are good, bad and ugly: good because we met our first quarterly sales target for the new ...
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A view to Verona
Verona, the renaissance town of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, home to a summer opera, daily street market and, every third year, Italy’s premier baking show.Verona’s centre is compact and traffic-free. There are taxis and tiny buses if you want help to roam, but one of the early morning pleasures is ...
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Jackson’s MD changeStephen Greenfield is to leave Jackson’s Bakery this month, having already handed over the role of MD to his successor James Watson. Greenfield had been MD for nine years, overseeing major investments in manufacturing and growing sales in the sandwich bread, foodservice and export sectors.Improve/NSA merger Sector skills ...
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ISB bread criticismThe Real Bread Campaign has published a report criticising in-store bakery loaves, claiming that many are made with processing aids and artificial additives. It also pointed out that ISBs do not always make their breads from scratch.Rowe’s challengeRowe’s Bakery recently launched a competition for students undertaking graphic design, ...
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Doughnut Week dealRegister for National Doughnut Week 2010 now, and get a voucher worth £5 off either a bag of Craigmillar Doughnut Concentrate or a box of Readi-Bake Topped Ring Doughnuts, from sponsor CSM UK. Taking place from May 8-15, the Week raises money for charity The Children’s Trust. Register ...
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Bakery rise for RGFCThe Real Good Food Company, parent firm of Renshawnapier, announced "significantly improved operating performance" within its bakery and bakery ingredients divisions. However, total group sales were down by 1% to £215.6m for the year ended 31 December 2009. The firm’s bakery arm, Hayden’s, saw an overall sales ...
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Report
Britvic Soft Drinks Report 2010While pre-recessionary spending was all about juices, waters and smoothies, 2009 saw the return of carbonates.Data remains sketchy on bakery retail, coffee shops and sandwich bars, given the impossibility of tracking a large pool of independents. The closest sector to extract value sales of soft drinks ...
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Seed pricing
Pine nuts: The Chinese home-grown crop was smaller than forecast, and the expected supplemental supply from Russia has dried up. With globally warmer weather also apparently impacting on the yield itself, there has been an estimated 60% reduction in supply and prices are now trading at levels over 125% higher ...
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Pecan Pie with a plus
As is often the case, the creation of a new recipe is a twist on an old favourite or an ’accidental’ slip with ingredients. This decadent chocolate pecan pie is our attempt to add something to an already established product. It can be eaten cold, but is better slightly warm. ...
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Nature and nurture
What does a raspberry taste like? Well, to give a scientific answer, 13 hydrocarbons, 36 alcohols, 17 aldehydes, 22 ketones, 16 acids and 27 esters.Enter the ’flavourist’ a scientist who can mix up a quick raspberry in a test tube, and whose skills are increasingly in demand as ...
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Warburtons nabs new site
Warburtons has announced the purchase of North East Bakery’s former site in Newburn, after the retail and wholesale business went into administration in December last year.Joint administrators Ian Green, partner, and Mark Loftus, director, of PricewaterhouseCoopers, had been looking to sell the business and assets of the firm, comprising the ...
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Mouthing off
"If you want to enjoy good French bread, come to Taiwan!"Sacré Bleu! Taiwan’s ambassador to France hails his country’s victory over the heartland of the baguette at the international baking competition, The 2010 Master Bakers, held at the Europain show last month"There’s nothing that depresses me more than going into ...
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Jobs saved as Sunfresh sells
Jobs at Sunfresh Bakers are safe, after bosses bought the business out of administration.Directors Stephen and Mark Taylor bought its assets and goodwill, safeguarding 140 jobs, and will now trade as Taylors the Bakers. The Ashton-under-Lyne firm in Lancashire, which makes oven-bottom muffins, went into administration at the end of ...
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Interest and innovation
There were sparkles to make cupcakes shimmer, hand-raised pork pie demos for purists, ovens with small footprints and big clear programming panels, plus a Smart car for smart buyers of a smart new dough processing line. And the latest craze? Let’s hear it for whoopie cakes! Yes, BIE had plenty ...
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Rude health
Launched on 1 April but apparently not an April Fool’s gag is the strictly for adults only website Rude Cakes. A spin-off from The Cake Store (www.thecakestore.co.uk), Rude Cakes is following the economy’s descent into the gutter by establishing an X-rated emporium."Perhaps the recession is responsible for Brits ...