All British Baker articles in December 2010 – Page 2
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Mouthing off
Christmas cake if someone can find out who he is. He’s been a hero. Many people would have just looked out of the window and thought the weather was just too bad but he’s kept going and deserves some praise"the Westmorland Gazette reports on a heartwarming story of one cake ...
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Are you serving up a ’moment of truth’?
Jonathan Winchester, MD of mystery shopping and customer service specialist Shopper Anonymous, points to the power of moments of truthOver the years, thousands of studies have shown that what makes effective one-to-one communication between your team member and the customer has three major components: body language, the tone of your ...
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Muffins hold steady
Widespread innovation is keeping the muffin category very much alive, as Andrew Williams discoversIt has been a good year for muffins. So much so, that they may even provide an answer to world peace and not many bakery products can claim that. The US military is reportedly tempting captured ...
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Sherwood’s fresh packs
The Sherwood Group’s packaging division has launched Purepack, a new concept in barrier-coated printed packaging, suitable for use in the food industry. Using technology suitable for a wide variety of boards and weights, it features a water-based coating that provides a direct food contact barrier while also offering potential cost ...
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Get fresh
Long-life has long dominated the free-from bakery sector, but the arrival of Genius bread has changed all that. Linda Harrison reportsUntil recently, gluten-free bakery products were the domain of health food shops and niche product aisles in supermarkets. Consumers had to actively seek them out, often finding that the gluten-free ...
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Get your tax return filed in good time
Bakers are being urged to beat the New Year rush and file their tax return before 31 January or face a £100 fine.Self assessment tax returns have to be filed online at hmrc.gov.uk/online/index.htm and, if submitting it electronically for the first time, companies will need to register; an activation ...
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Warburtons extends lines
Warburtons is to introduce two new lines in a bid to offer consumers an alternative to standard sliced sandwich bread. Its Square-ish Wraps and Sandwich Thins will be available from February, and the firm hopes they will appeal to a younger consumer profile.The white wraps, which can be topped, rolled ...
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The essential muffin
Dan Lepard extolsthe beauty of a richlyflavoured muffin andshows us how to makea moist chocolateversion to wooyour customersThere was a time, 50 years ago, when asking for a muffin in a bakery would have got you a disk of dough cooked that morning on a hotplate, ready for splitting and ...
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A Dresden dynamo
Another week, another record. This one is notable for being the product of a town’s dedication to beating its own Stollen world record every year, and because of the collective madness that entails.The latest Guinness World Record for a giant Stollen was paraded through the streets of Dresden this month ...
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Wheat prices hit new high for crop year to date
The UK wheat price has reached its highest point for the current crop year, with bakers set to face even higher prices from January as the entire UK export surplus is now spoken for.
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Price vs product - compromise or confrontation
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business accelerator specialising in the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectors.My grandmother always used the saying "Penny wise but pound foolish" and, over the years, I’ve come to really understand what she meant.We all need to watch our pennies these days ...
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Christmas cheer
Silly season has arrived in force. For evidence, you need look no further than The Herald in Scotland, which reported on another town collectively embracing its inner loon.The United Parish of Carstairs in Lanarkshire is to be renamed Bethlehem for 24 hours, and nearby Carstairs Junction will be signposted Nazareth ...
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Country Range launches certified coffee
Country Range has launched 100% Rainforest Alliance Certified roast and ground filter coffee. The firm described the coffee as sweet, but well-balanced with toasted almond notes.The coffee comes from sustainably managed farms in Brazil, where the beans are selected for their body and flavour."The breakfast occasion is growing in ...
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Caught in the web
While the Yeo Valley rappers are a viral marketing sensation in the UK, cake toppings brand Duncan Hines had to pull its ad featuring ’blackface’ hip hop cupcakes... aol.it/hfpOqY (A)Nerd cake of the week: an Android phone cake... bit.ly/f0bLhT (B)The ’Lazy Cakes’ brand is launched in the US, with a ...
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My Career
Lancing, West SussexHow did you get into the baking industry?I was expelled from school and don’t have any qualifications; I had three children and did voluntary work and had part-time jobs as a cleaner and worked in a nursery while I looked after them. People loved my chocolate brownies so ...
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Traditionals with a twist christmas bread
This French loaf of enriched, buttery bread is sometimes said to be the "cake" that Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said of the starving French peasants "Let them eat cake". This may well be apocryphal, but it does illustrate the texture of brioche, which is half way between ...
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Real Bread Campaign launches initiatives for schoolchildren
The Real Bread Campaign (RBC) is going into schools in a bid to spread knowledge about its definition of ‘real bread’ to the next generation.
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Bring on the bran
Kampffmeyer Food Innovation launched a new type of bran at the HiE (Health Ingredients Europe) exhibition in Madrid last month. Softbran Don Minus is milder in taste and displays a significantly better mouthfeel than conventional bran products, but has the same dietary fibre value, according to the firm.Softbran Don Minus ...
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?? Download of the week: Bakery Story, iPhone
We know what you’re all burning to do when you step away from the bakery at the end of a busy Christmas shift: run a virtual bakery on your iPhone. Yes, no longer do you have to switch off from the bakery world in your downtime, following the launch of ...
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Scottish body offers bakers free PR deal
Bakers north of the border are getting help to raise their profile with a free PR service.Scottish Bakers is encouraging its 250 bakery members to come up with news stories that it can send out to the local media. Chief executive Alan Clarke said: "The key message is about supporting ...