All British Baker articles in February 2008 – Page 3
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Would you welcome an ombudsman to police the relationship between supermarkets and suppliers (pgs 5 and 14-15)?Do you think the same as Dave Brooks of Finsbury Foods who says, "Suppliers need to take responsibility for themselves"? Or do you side more with another bakery manufacturer, who has to remain anonymous, ...
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Sandwich show
The Great Yorkshire Sandwich, Snack and Mobile Show will take place on 21 and 22 May at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley. Aimed specifically at the ’grab and go’ sector, the show has over 40 stands.Exhibitors include savoury suppliers, sandwich filling producers, business insurance specialists, catering equipment and delivery vehicle manufacturers, ...
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Reporting in
Bakers are facing high raw material, ingredients and energy costs, and could do without the government’s plans to increase fuel duty by a further 2p per litre from 1 April.Representatives of the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on ...
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In the mood for Strudel
Apple strudel is thought to have derived from Bavaria or Austria. Made with a very thin elastic and springy pastry and filled with apple, this classic pastry makes a heart-warming winter dessert. The strudel can be sold as a whole piece or portioned as appropriate - we cut each ...
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Legislation watch
Bakery businesses are being urged to sign an online petition against the new family business tax.The e-petition is now among the top 50 most-signed petitions on the Number 10 website, with over 6,000 signatures, claims Professional Contractors Group (PCG), which represents the UK’s freelancers.In 2007, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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Sayers updates its image and offering
North-west bakery chain Sayers unveiled its new look on Wed-nesday after revamping its image and menu.Trading hours will also be extended to Sundays in some of the shops and new breads, such as a multi-seed bloomer and a milk loaf, will be introduced."Over the coming weeks, customers will see ...
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Organic at heart
Honeyrose Bakery, the organic cake baker based in Park Royal, London, is significantly stepping up its operations to meet the growing market for organic hand-baked cakes. The firm, founded in 2000, has outgrown its current bakery, having "knocked through into neighbours until we’ve run out of neighbours", as Adrian Apodaca, ...
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Greencore weathers tough trading period
Greencore Group, the Irish maker of sandwiches and malt, has had a tough year due to unseasonal summer weather, consumer slowdown, strong raw material inflation and a weak exchange rate, said chairman Ned Sullivan.The convenience foods division, including sandwiches, quiche, cakes and desserts, performed well in the first ...
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Green Watch
New research from business analyst Mintel claims that 84% of British adults look at packaging to see its recycling credentials.This figure suggests that recycling credentials are more important to a consumer than fat, salt and calorie content. According to Mintel, in the UK, 80% of adults look at salt ...
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NewsGloves off?
There were bemusing bakery goings-on at the Royal Courts of Justice last week, when embattled ex-Beatle Paul McCartney bizarrely turned up for his divorce hearing with Heather Mills, clutching a Village Bakery oven glove. So why the mitt? Apparently he uses it to keep his papers safe. When BB got ...
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A free glide
Philip Gittens, a wholesale baker in Hull, who runs the Crusty Cob, has recently launched his latest invention after receiving a £25,000 European grant.The castors, called Gliderz, were invented after his wife had trouble moving heavy tables. "The only way my wife could clean was to take everything off the ...
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Fostering skills
Momentum is gathering around the National Skills Academy Training Centre for Bakery. Whether this ends up based at Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA), as mooted, or emerges as a handful of satellite colleges, scattered across a wider geographic reach, is still up for debate. Fosters Bakery, for ...
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Firkins raises funds for youth
Midlands bakery firm Firkins has adopted youth homelessness charity St Basils as a focus for 2008. St Basils has 23 residential projects in the Birmingham area for 16- to 25-year-olds.St Basils’ fundraising officer Georgia Blackwood said that collection boxes have gone into all of Firkins’ 56 shops, with the aim ...
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Dunkin’ Donuts ups its toasties
Bakery chain Dunkin’ Donuts is to launch a new Oven-Toasted menu in the US, in a bid to claim a share of the toasted sandwich market.The flatbread sandwiches, toasted throughout the day, will come in three flavours. Personal Pizzas, meaning that consumers can choose their own toppings, will also appear ...
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Competition Commission report gets mixed reception
After spending almost two years investigating the grocery sector, the Competition Commission published its latest report on February 15. This is an interim report, ahead of its final report which is due before May. Supermarkets and other interested parties will be lobbying hard between now and then.The Commission had earlier ...
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Controversial code
T he Competition Commission’s (CC’s) two-year-long investigation into the grocery market inched towards a final conclusion last week, with the publication of its long-awaited final remedies statement. On the surface, bakery suppliers should be happier with the recommendations than high street bakers, who face the daunting prospect of even more ...
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Canary is a goldmine
I have always shared with you my latest ideas to make our fortune. But now I know they have not worked as well as I had hoped. If they had, I would not be writing this and you would not be reading it; we would all be in the ...
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TV ’cake-off’
Lightbody Cakes, part of the Finsbury Food Group, is playing host to a BBC children’s show called Beat the Boss.In the show, a group of three children pitched their talent against three business professionals to come up with a new birthday cake for the children’s market. The two teams worked ...
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BSB takes conference to NEC
This spring’s British Society of Baking (BSB) Conference is at the Baking Industry Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham. There is a gourmet dinner from 6.30pm on Monday, 7 April. Rooms can be booked at the Holiday Inn by the BSB.Tuesday registration is at 8.30am. Talks start at 9.20am, with the ...