All British Baker articles in August 2010
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Raise a smile
The Village Bakery, Melmerby, is hoping to spread some happiness with a new campaign, which involves consumers suggesting how they would use £250 to make someone smile. The Rye Smile campaign, to launch next month, has been devised by the Cumbrian bakery firm following consumer feedback about the wellbeing ...
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NewsCadbury Cocoa House seeks London bread firm
Cadbury Cocoa House is gearing up for the launch of the first of 50 planned outlets and is currently looking to work with a London-based specialist bread supplier. The first outlet is to open in Bluewater shopping centre, Kent in early October, and several further London locations are planned for ...
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Jobs to go as Brace’s cuts back on distribution
Brace’s Bakery is to scale back its logistics operation, with the potential loss of 37 jobs. The Welsh plant baker said supermarket chains increasingly wanted to handle products though regional distribution centres, which meant it had renegotiated contracts with some of its big customers. MD Mark Brace said: "We’ve had ...
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In my world
David Powell, Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of BakersIf an event has received wide media coverage, the question is often asked as to where/which planet you have been on if you are not aware of it.I have just returned from the frozen Arctic with no sight of a ship, ...
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Top tweets
ThePhoenixBaker: Ooo there is a little man out there I really don’t like! If I could erase u from my past u would be gone! U know who u r!iLoveMyGrub: My dog is a freak he just turned down a Haribo Fangtastic.RealBread: Hands up who bought a voice changing ...
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In Short
Asda bakery changesAsda has had a reshuffle of its bakery department. John Cummings has replaced Ian Martin as the new category director for bakery. Martin moves to frozen. David Miles joins as the new commercial director for bakery and frozen.Cake sale for Pakistan British Baker contributor Huma Qureshi has organised ...
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Greggs’ relief appealGreggs branches around the country have set up cash collection points for staff and customers to make donations towards the relief effort following the flood disaster in Pakistan, while the firm is also making a £10,000 donation.Cupcake concession Jellytots & Dollymixtures Cupcake Company opened a concession in Selfridges ...
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Speedy fameSpeedy’s Sandwich Bar in London has become a tourist destination after featuring in the BBC1 series Sherlock, according to Yahoo! Travel. The shop, although half a mile from Baker Street, has been used as the exterior of Sherlock Holmes’ flat, and has prompted hundreds of fans to flock to ...
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Maidstone to AryztaAryzta subsidiary IAWS Group has reached an agreement with Tim Hortons, its 50/50 partner in Canada’s Maidstone Bakeries joint venture, to acquire its 50% share for consideration of C$475m (£290m). Following the investment, Aryzta aims to leverage Maidstone’s experience in the quick-service restaurant sector.Asda’s smaller format Asda is ...
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Seasoned thinking
The Food Standards Agency (FSA)/National Association of Master Bakers’ project specifically looked at reducing salt levels in tin loaves and bloomers, as well as considering no-time dough, sponge-and-dough and long fermentation processes using a variety of flour types, improver types, dough temperatures and rest times.Test baking was carried out in ...
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Report
production stays lowThe production of palm oil in Malaysia has turned out to be lower than expected, with supplies of competing oils, such as rape- and sun oil, not expected to be abundant for the near future, according to the latest report by Eccelso Limited. This could lead to increased ...
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What’s in the shoppers’ minds?
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business accelerator specialising in the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectorsIf we only knew exactly what our customers want, we could grow our business by double digits. Actually, we already know quite a lot, as groups of hungry customers think in ...
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New York state of mind
What happens when you take one Marks & Spencers cake buyer, one product developer and three suppliers and send them to New York to look at and taste cakes for 10 days?"There was an awful lot of cake we were visiting between 20 to 25 bakeries every ...
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A job for life
Years ago, it was newspaper printers and dockers who had a job for life. But from October 2011, it will be everyone. The government will abolish forced retirement at 65 and employees will have the right to continue working for as long as they are able. A test case said ...
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Help on making salt savings
l Update on the progress of the joint Food Standards Agency (FSA)/National Association of Master Bakers’ (NAMB) project on reducing salt in bread.l Information on a project with local authorities to disseminate the findings of the project and to support bakers wishing to reduce the salt content of their bread, ...
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Halloween web woven
Maison Blanc has launched a whole host of new products, including some Halloween treats. In-store now is a Provençale Tart, made with flaky pastry, Emmental cheese, sliced tomatoes, Dijon mustard and aromatic Provençale herbs, as well as a Quiche Lorraine.In October, the patisserie chain is launching its Halloween products, which ...
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Steady as she goes
British Baker launched its league table of the UK’s bakery, café and takeaway outlets in 2007. Since then, the big question on everyone’s lips has been how long can Greggs, at number one, keep Subway at bay?For Subway has been haring along, adding franchise outlets, 240 in 2007 for example, ...
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Food in the news
According to The Independent, an increasing number of retailers are introducing ’apps’ designed to give customers personalised offers. Sainsbury’s launched its app for the iPad and iPhone earlier this month. As well as offers, it allows users to collect Nectar points to use in-store. Other retailers reportedly using apps include ...
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Jacob’s take on flatbreads
Jacob’s Flatbreads, a new range of savoury biscuits designed to make flatbreads more appealing, has been launched by United Biscuits. The product comes in Salt & Cracked Black Pepper and Mixed Seeds varieties in 150g packs with an RSP of £1.42. The flatbreads contain no artificial colourings, flavourings or preservatives. ...
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Can we query a fit note with GP?
Q Can we ask the GP if a fit note is real? You recently advised that employees can purchase fake (yet convincing) fit notes over the internet. If we doubt the legitimacy of one, can we ask the GP to confirm they issued it, or do data protection laws prevent ...