All British Baker articles in August 2009 – Page 2
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Kerry takes on new concepts
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours is to showcase two advanced technology concepts - Biobake and Route to Natural - at Food Ingredients Europe ’09, aimed at addressing cost reduction and healthy eating requirements in the bakery and savoury snacks sectors.Biobake is a clean-label gluten reduction technology, which aims ...
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NewsCupcake challenges
We weren’t joking when we foretold of a cross-Atlantic cupcake arms race kicking off in July. To recap: the official Guinness World Record for the world’s biggest cupcake was broken in mid-July. Then it emerged that a cupcake was unofficially constructed in Covent Garden, London, one day earlier, ...
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Caught on the web
* Psycho Doughnuts’ shop in California features staff wearing nurses’ uniforms, a white padded cell and doughnut names like Bipolar, The Massive Head Trauma and Psycho www.psycho-donuts.com * Fat Princess has been released for the Playstation, where you have to rescue a kidnapped princess who has been fattened up with ...
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Ilapak starts new Carrera
Ilapak is to display several new machines at the PPMA show from 29 September to 1 October. These include the Carrera 4000, the first of its new range of horizontal packaging machines.The Carrera boasts several energy-saving features such as energy recuperation systems in the motor drives. It has an electronic ...
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My Career
What does your job involve?I head up a team of two full-time bakery lecturers, a technician and five part-time staff, plus I’m responsible for the Cakes and Bakes Shop at the College, which sells bread and confectionery made by the students. We run a wide variety of bakery, confectionery and ...
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Reporting in Sandwich training on the cards
With a surge in sales reported in the last three months, it looks as if the commercial sandwich market will achieve solid growth over the year, contrary to some expectations.So the sandwich industry should be heading for the Lunch! show in October in a reasonably positive mood. This new annual ...
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EAT remains bullish on growth, despite economy
Fast-growing sandwich chain EAT is confident of doubling store numbers in the next three to five years.
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Spelt, Honey and Macadamia Bread
In the second of our special macadamia bread recipes, devised by three UK artisan bakers in association with The South African Growers’ Association, this Spelt, Honey and Macadamia Bread was created by Paul Merry of Panary.
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Boosting sales in a Jiffy
Jiffy Trucks is promoting its mobile business vehicles as a way for bakery retailers to expand, without being tied to potentially high rent agreements.Jiffy said its trucks offer a much lower operating cost as an alternative to fixed premises. A Jiffy Truck mobile ’sandwich round’, it said, can turn over ...
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Tulip blossoms for Dawn
Bakery manufacturer Dawn Foods has launched a Tulip Muffin range, consisting of five new muffins individually wrapped in tulip-style brown paper cups.They are available in toffee chocolate, Belgian chocolate and cappuccino, blueberry, lemon and triple chocolate varieties, and have been developed to meet the demands of the coffee shop and ...
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Bitter struggle for sweeteners
Definitions of the term ’artificial’ are almost as hotly contested as its flip side, ’natural’. But when it comes to sweeteners, at least, there is a fairly clear distinction to be made between what is ’artificial’ and what is not (see panel). What is more controversial, especially in the context ...
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Dunbar-based bakery makes bid to survive
Local residents are buying shares in a community-run bakery in a bid to reopen their high street shop.William Smith Bakers in Dunbar, East Lothian, closed last year, after 155 years in business. But when the family couldn’t sell it as a going concern, Sustaining Dunbar, a not-for-profit association ...
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North East Bakery seeks retail growth for Nichols
North East Bakery is on the look-out for more stores to grow its Nichols brand.The company has 13 shops in the north-east and will add two more before Christmas. "There are huge opportunities to get into primary retail locations in the region, which means we don’t incur greater distribution costs," ...
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Bakery at large
Put on your comfy shoes, practise your German for "a large beer please" and get set for iba. The renowned German bakery exhibition takes place on October 3-9 in Düsseldorf.
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Fair offers hot tips for bakers
Visitors to the Bakers’ Fair in Manchester will learn survival tips and ways to reduce salt in products.Presentations at the fair include NAMB chairman Mike Holling talking about how craft bakers can survive on the high street during the credit crunch, while NAMB director Anthony Kindred will discuss salt ...
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Back to school
Cast your mind back to when you were at school. Remember how you were taught the basics and encouraged to discover the rest. This is the perfect time of year for you to get back to basics by reviewing your bakery retail or coffee shop offer.Review each category in terms ...
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Baking Industry Awards seats are a sell-out!
Tickets for the Baking Industry Awards have now sold out.Those of you who have secured your seats for the industry’s premier event, hosted by top comedian Ronnie Corbett, are sure to have a fantastic night, and we are delighted to announce that Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova from the BBC’s ...
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Australian coffee shop firm plans UK expansion
Muffin Break, an Australian coffee shop franchise, has announced plans to expand in the UK. Situated in shopping centre locations, the business currently has 29 outlets and plans to open at least three more by the end of the year. It has been operating in the UK for the last six years and has just celebrated in 20th anniversary in Australia.
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Appointments
Greg WoodheadBakehouseContinental pastries, savouries and bread producer Bakehouse has appointed Greg Woodhead as NPD project manager, effective this month. Woodhead has moved across from his role as food technologist in the firm’s technical team and will continue to be responsible for technical research, developing the company’s nutritional policy and identifying ...
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Planning ahead
William Reed Business Media, publisher of British Baker, has launched the Food and Drink Logistics (FDL) Show in response to market demand. It will run alongside the firm’s set of market-leading trade shows, including the Baking Industry Exhibition.The FDL Show will provide a platform for firms involved with warehousing, ...