All British Baker articles in December 2006 – Page 4
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Greenwood targets training at banquet
Over 200 people attended the Worshipful Company of Bakers’ annual election banquet last week at the Mansion House in London, where Anthony Greenwood was elected as the new Master. He was presented with the chain of office by outgoing master Alan Willis.Anthony Greenwood said: "During my year of office I ...
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William Reed reveals Baking Industry Exhibition plans
Research conducted after this year’s NEC shows resulted in a clear majority of exhibitors saying they wanted British Baker and publisher William Reed to run a bakery show for the industry.William Reed Exhibitions said it is therefore proud to launch a major new event, The Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE), at ...
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Bakery sales boost IAWS
IAWS has reported an "excellent" performance for its financial year ending 31 July 2006, with pre-tax profits up by 14.6% to ?123.5m (£83.3m). Group revenue was 10.6% higher at ?1.557bn from ?1.408bn.The "outstanding feature" was the performance of the Group’s Food Division, which includes Delice de France and Cusisine de ...
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Our new arrival... www.bakeryinfo.co.uk
Your new gateway to the baking industry, the bakeryinfo.co.uk website will offer a selection of the bits of both magazine titles, while also providing a sneak preview of upcoming news and feature exclusives.On top of that, in the coming months we will be offering a whole host of online exclusives, ...
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Our new arrival... www.bakeryinfo.co.uk
Your new gateway to the baking industry, the bakeryinfo.co.uk website will offer a selection of the bits of both magazine titles, while also providing a sneak preview of upcoming news and feature exclusives.On top of that, in the coming months we will be offering a whole host of online exclusives, ...
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Anson
(Ely, Cambridgeshire), a supplier of plastic food packaging, is introducing a co-ordinated range of food containers made from PLA (polylactive acid), an environmentally-friendly material. Now available in PLA are three new salad bowls with lids in its popular Twisty range (250cc, 375cc and 500cc), as well as a Single Tortilla ...
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Sealed Air
Packaging specialist Sealed Air (St Neots, Cambridgeshire) has introduced an innovative form of resealable packaging to the UK bakery sector. Sealed Air’s Easy Open reseal bags have a built-in recloseable feature, using pressure-sensitive tape to create an easy-open, easy-close package, which provides product containment and protection. Allied Bakeries is already ...
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Scotch Pie Champion named after charity success
This year’s Scotch Pie Champion is Keith Stuart, production director of Fife’s RT Stuart bakery and butchery chain.He picked up the trophy at the annual awards ceremony held near Gleneagles in Scotland on St Andrew’s Day last week.Stuart said he was "over the moon" to be awarded the accolade, suggesting ...
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Dawn adds flavours to frostings line-up
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcestershire) has announced that it will now offer a full range of frostings, with the addition of three new flavours: chocolate, strawberry and lemon. Dawn Foods is launching the full frostings range in response to research among the bakery and foodservice sectors and their customers, which shows ...
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Premier’s RHM plans
Innovation and investment were promised by Premier Foods after it took over RHM, which comprises milling, bread and cakes businesses, for £1.2bn this week.Premier’s chief executive Robert Schofield told British Baker: "This acquisition transforms our scale and we believe it will enable us to be a better partner with our ...
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Ulma Packaging
Ulma Packaging offers a range of flowrapping packaging equipment. For small to medium-sized bakery operations the recently updated Florida E flowrapper is suitable for a wide range of bakery applications. Dependent on product, it can operate at up to 150 packs per minute.Another Ulma machine, the Atlanta, has been ...
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Single qualification for N/SVQs
NVQ and SVQ qualifications for the food and drink industry are being replaced by an umbrella title: N/SVQ Food Manufacture.The change follows a two-year consultation period by Improve, the food & drink sector skills council, and will become effective in the spring of 2007. At Levels 2 and 3, the ...
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PFM Packaging Machinery
Flowrappers supplied by PFM PACKAGING MACHINERY (Leeds, West Yorkshire) are ensuring that McGhee’s Bakery in Glasgow can capitalise on a major expansion in its core central Scotland wholesale market, which includes the foodservice sector, independent retailers, cash and carries, local authorities and education establishments.McGhee’s co-owner, Ian McGhee, explains: "Our new ...
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Paul learns UK lessons
Calling your company a ’start-up’ when you’ve got the wallop of a 300-strong homeland army of shops buttressing your advance into a foreign territory may stretch the definition of the phrase somewhat. But this is how French bakery chain Paul sees its foray into the UK retail bakery market.Since its ...
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Ilapak
Ilapak (Hayes, Middlesex) has developed a unique flowrapper for Sonora Foods, which, for the first time, enables the company to produce high quality flowrapped packs with a six-month shelf life.Using Ilapak’s VacMap flowrapper, Sonora can now produce new long-life packs at high speeds, at a lower cost than using a ...
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National Flexible
A biodegradable material that looks and performs like standard OPP film has been launched into the UK by NATIONAL FLEXIBLE (Bradford). Now being trialled by several bakery/sandwich firms, early indications show that it provides a lightweight, competitively-priced clear film for flowrapping retail products. Tests show that it breaks down to ...
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FDA Packaging Machinery
To wrap bakery products automatically, you no longer need to use expensive plastic trays or cardboard supports, and biodegradable wrapping materials can be used on the machine, according to FDA Packaging Machinery (Norwich, Norfolk).The Flexwrap machine, on which the products to be wrapped are placed directly onto the material, is ...
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Ethical packing
According to a recent report, Attitudes Towards Ethical Foods in the UK, conducted by consumer, media and market research supplier Mintel, three-quarters of British people believe that they have a duty to recycle.Julie Sloan, senior market analyst at Mintel says: "People in Britain today are clearly moving ...
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Premium growth drives Finsbury
Year-on-year sales at Memory Lane Cakes are up 3.3% and have risen 15% at speciality bread producer Nicholas & Harris after 20 weeks of Finsbury Food Group’s financial year.All the growth at Memory Lane has come in the latter half of that period, after a quiet summer.The group’s The Best ...
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Drinks round-up
While the public are already aware of the benefits of smoothies as a healthy and nutritious food, King Parrot Foods (Liverpool) has come up with a twist on the concept - a smoothie that they say is even healthier and contains more vitamins than other types of smoothies.King Parrot Smoothies ...