All British Baker articles in February 2011
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Independents prove popular
Nearly 70% of independent retailers are doing well. And, within that 70% figure, independent bakers are among the most popular on the high street, according to a new report from the Local Data Company. Bakery shop closures are cancelled out by the number of bakery shops opening. But it is ...
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SSP breathes life into Panopolis
Foodservice company SSP has revived its Panopolis sandwich shop concept after securing a deal to operate five cafés and restaurants at London City Airport. The deal, which includes a bar, restaurant and Illy Espressa-mente Café, will see two Panopolis outlets located landside and airside, selling a range of upmarket sandwiches ...
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In my world
In my journey through life, many of my seemingly mundane experiences have been reduced to metaphors, revealing life-changing philosophies.Last week, I was in Canary Wharf, the clone of Manhattan planted in south-east London. Whenever I am in the City, I am handed a nicely folded copy of the newspaper City ...
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In Short
Chef input for Peter’sSavouries manufacturer Peter’s Food Service has teamed up with award-winning chef John Benson-Smith to upgrade the company’s foodservice menu and transform the culinary experience for sports fans on match days. Benson-Smith, who is consultant executive chef to Manchester City Football Club, will visit Peter’s key suppliers to ...
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Chevler ups capacityBaking case and tulip muffin wrap manufacturer Chevler, has announced it is now capable of producing over 100 million tulip muffin wraps a year following the doubling of capacity at its production site in South Wales. The firm has invested heavily in new bespoke machinery over the past ...
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Dutch deal for Edme Bakery supplier Edme has become the UK agent for Dutch malt extract company Diastatische Producten. The venture allows Edme to supply spray and band-dried malt extract. Edme sales director James Smith commented: "We are delighted to add this complementary product to the popular Edme foods range." ...
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Workplace romance
American companies are renowned for their hard-line approach towards workplace romances; many ban them outright and will sack any employee discovered to be having a personal relationship with a colleague. But this type of attitude is inappropriate under our laws which probably explains why one-in-six people openly confess to ...
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Report
The wholesale prices of key bakery ingredients, such as butter, cream and skimmed milk powder, are on the rise as demand puts pressure on supply.According to data from DairyCo, December milk deliveries in the UK showed a year-on-year growth of 2.3%, but much of the extra milk is being converted ...
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Pieminister pursues royalty
Gourmet pie manufacturer Pieminister has launc hed the Kate & Wills commemorative pie ahead of the Royal wedding in April. The new variety has been released to coincide with British Pie Week (7-13 March) and will be available until the end of April.The limited-edition Kate & Wills pie is made ...
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Workers turn noses up at office sandwiches
To our desk-bound readers: have you noticed that those blue-sky brainstorming meetings have subdued to a sombre grey of late? Is your new product development drizzling rather than sparkling? Losing clients left, right and centre? It could be something to do with your limp, pappy office sarnies.A new survey shows ...
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Mouthing off
"Someone on the Barclays equity floor is stealing the tops off muffins in the trader café. Someone noticed the muffins this morning and mentioned it to the woman working the register. She is apparently frustrated by it as well, because she doesn’t know how she doesn’t see it happening since ...
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The mean streets
As a headline, it was rather scary: "Many high streets are doomed to die". Taken from last week’s Daily Mail, it quoted figures issued by the Local Data Company, which scours 800 town centres throughout the country every six months, checking on each independent shop closure and opening. In fact, ...
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Size matters in the subs world
Fans of spurious corporate litigation that we are, Stop the Week was as pleased as ever to see Subway up to its old tricks. The sandwich chain, has been wrangling its way through the UK courts, trying to prove that its toasted subs are VAT-exempt, and in so doing, posing ...
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Witness and lies
As part of a disciplinary investigation, you will usually interview witnesses. During this process, you have every right to expect honesty. But suppose one of them lies in order to protect the employee under investigation: how should you deal with their actions and what effect do they have on the ...
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Quantum leap
To grow or not to grow, that is the question. And while investment remains a problem for many, one rapidly growing company convinced its lenders on performance. Giles Foods has doubled the size of its bakery and invested £3.5m in new plant and equipment. "And that’s just the first phase," ...
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Onward journey
Ask people what SSP is and they may hazard a guess at Statutory Sick Pay or maybe the Scottish Socialist Party. Those are two of search engine Google’s top answers anyway. In fact, SSP is a huge foodservice company, operating 2,000 retail outlets in locations such as airports and railways ...
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LCI innovates
Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI) has launched a new clean-label preservative for bakery products called Bakesafe."In our trials we had very positive results with Bakesafe compared to calcium propionate," explained Anne Lionnet, marketing manager for bakery at LCI. "Trials on the kinetics of mould growth showed there was no significant difference ...
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Handmade whoopies
The Handmade Cake Company has launched whoopie pies in two varieties: lemon berry with a cream cheese filling and chocolate with a buttercream filling.The Berkshire firm supplies the cakes frozen with a shelf-life of eight months; they defrost in two hours and, once defrosted, keep for two days. They come ...
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Printer offers greener style
SATO has launched the TH2 label printer which helps users meet food standards requirements and reduce unnecessary wastage.An internal real-time clock means it calculates and prints on to labels the pull, thaw and use-by dates for products stored in its user-specific database, avoiding the possibility of operator error. The user-defined ...