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NewsCake Box sales bounce back after reopening stores
Fresh cream cake specialist Cake Box said its confident the firm’s franchise store rollout programme will return to pre-Covid levels as its sales recover
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Coronavirus outbreaks at Greggs and Mr Kipling
The bakery firms have been hit by outbreaks of coronavirus in the last week.
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Pret A Manger to cut 2,800 roles from its UK shops
Trade across UK shops is down 60% year on year due to the impact of the coronavirus
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Staff at Addo’s Nottingham bakery test positive for coronavirus
Six staff at Addo Food Group’s Nottingham bakery, which produces own label quiches and savoury tarts, have tested positive for coronavirus
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Two Magpies opens new bakery school
The purpose-built school will offer classes in artisan baking
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Wall’s owner Addo raises £11,000 for charity during covid crisis
Pastry producer has hosted 42 socially distanced events
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Cornish bakery Prima opens D2C Homebake Hub
The new retail centre offers frozen pasties for baking at home
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Food brand Utter Waffle opens bricks and mortar restaurant
The food van has transformed into a bricks and mortar restaurant
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Bakeries raise concerns about staff enforcing face masks rule
Some have raised concerns about responsibility being put on frontline staff to ensure customers wear them
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Nabim survey reveals extent of home baking boom
More than half of Brits tried their hand at home baking during the first two months of lockdown
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Patisserie Valerie rolls out Covid-19 charity cake
Patisserie Valerie has unveiled a new cake to raise funds for a storytelling charity.
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Starbucks operator SSP set to make 5,000 redundancies
Uppercrust and Starbucks operator predicts it will only have reopened 20% of its UK sites by the autumn
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Craft bakeries: two-thirds remain open during coronavirus pandemic
Study by the Craft Bakers Association has revealed that 63% of bakers have stayed open during the past 10 weeks.
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Food industry blamed for severity of Covid-19 and obesity
The food industry must share the blame for obesity pandemic and the severity of Covid-19, according to an editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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Coronavirus: St Pierre Groupe donates PCs to school
Manchester-based bakery St Pierre Groupe has donated tablet PCs to Didsbury High School to enable pupils to continue studying online during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two-thirds of Brits plan to visit cafes in opening month
Nearly two-thirds of British consumers have said they would return to cafés, bars and restaurants within the first month of them reopening, according to a survey by The NPD Group.
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Hovis ramps up donations of loaves to hunger charity
Hovis has donated nearly 50,000 loaves of bread to FareShare amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Aryzta turnover plunges by 21% due to Covid-19 impact
Covid-19 has caused revenue at bakery business Aryzta to fall more than 20% year on year, the company has reported.
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Macphie raises £25,000 for mental health charity
Glenbervie-based Macphie has raised £25,000 for a Scottish mental health charity during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Neal’s Family wins £5,000 community award grant
Lancashire-based Neal’s Family Bakery has won an award from dating and social networking app Bumble.
