All British Baker articles in February 2011 – Page 4
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Welsh cake firm sees boost from TV’s Gypsy Weddings
Traveller brides are relying on ABC Cakes in Shotton to make their Big Fat Gypsy Weddings extra special. The Flintshire firm, which features on Channel 4’s hit programme, opened in 2007 and has had an influx of orders for travellers’ weddings over the past few years. The company had had ...
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Tesco launches its first bakery apprenticeships
Helen Gregory Tesco has followed in the footsteps of its competitors by launching its first bakery apprenticeship scheme.
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Hovis reports leap in trading profit
Hovis posted a 7.3% decline in value sales last year across its bakery and milling businesses, but saw trading profit increase by 25.8%, according to annual results posted by parent company Premier Foods.
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Clydeside Bakery closes doors
Glasgow-based wholesale bakery Clydeside has been put into liquidation and all its employees made redundant after 56 years of being in business.
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Millers raise flour prices as wheat costs rise further
In the past two weeks, the price of delivered wheat has risen by a further £11 per tonne, breaking the £230 per tonne highs of the 2007/08 season, with millers, including Rank Hovis and ADM Milling, hiking the price of their flour in return.
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Kingsmill in Young’s coatings deal
Kingsmill has teamed up with Young’s in a deal that marks the brand’s surprise move into the frozen sector.
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Brace’s moves into old Warburtons site
Brace’s Bakery has begun its move into Warburtons’ Newport factory in Rogerstone, following the announcement in December that it was to take over the site.
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Cocoa shortage worry as unrest hits Ivory Coast
Analysts are playing down fears that there could be a cocoa shortage following the political unrest in the Ivory Coast.
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‘Man plea’ is centre of new Ginsters drive
Ginsters is to launch a humorous new ad campaign with the aim of encouraging women to allow their partners to eat pies and savoury snacks at home.
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In my world
Alan Stuart is MD of Stuarts of Buckhaven and president of Scottish BakersOne of the best decisions I ever made was in 1989, when I applied to join the Q Guild, an elite group of butchers from all over the UK. At the time, we were a 16-shop retail bakery ...
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Tunnocks Uddingston
Installed: a new Schubert automated packaging line featuring a TLM-F44 Picker Station, which is used to pick up the teacakes and place them on to the grouping belt conveyor; they are then transported to the machine’s central loading operation. A Schubert TLM-F2 loading system then picks up the collated teacakes ...
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On the tail of the tiger
Chef Heston Blumenthal is to launch some new bakery lines with Waitrose in April. The supermarket won’t say if that range will include any bake-off breads. But if it does, Waitrose may well be on the right lines in consulting the man who brought the world snail porridge.That’s because suppliers ...
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Trade Snapshot on: Sirha
What news trends are appearing across the Channel? We asked some exhibitors at the recent Sirha exhibition in Lyon...Christine Mermillod, president of third-generation bakery manufacturer Gerbe Savoyarde, told British Baker that the trend in France is also breads that have added nutritional benefits, especially for those containing nuts and seeds. ...
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Hovis sale ’nonsense’A spokesperson for Premier Foods has dismissed speculation that Rank Hovis is to be put up for sale as "utter nonsense". An article in the Daily Mail stated that Premier’s board had met advisory firm NM Rothschild to discuss a sale, but the spokesperson said this meeting never ...
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Tower redundancyRising fuel prices have forced Scottish craft firm Tower Bakery to make one of its bakers redundant for the first time in its 30-year history. While some firms have been forced to raise prices, the Perth-based chain said the fuel tax rise meant it had also put some production ...
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Freeman to lead NAChristopher Freeman, of Dunns of Crouch End, has been nominated as president-elect of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA). Chief executive Gill Brooks-Lonican said: "He has been a staunch supporter of the NA, the ABST, and the Worshipful Company of Bakers for many years, and is ...
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Coffee shop sat-navCoffee Nation has launched a sat-nav tool to help drivers locate their nearest outlet while on the move. Using either TomTom or Garmin technology, consumers can simply download a file from the Coffee Nation website, which maps out more than 800 of its sites across the UK. The ...
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Next stop Paris?
Winning the World Cup is probably the most prestigious accolade a nation could achieve well, in the field of bakery that is. And it is why, for the past 10 months, the UK team Mickael Jahan, Wayne Caddy and Steven Salt has been eating, sleeping and breathing this ...
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Mouthing off
"Our expectations have a tremendous influence on how we taste things they give food a positive halo. Don’t take ’good enough’ as being the benchmark, it has to be ’good’"Dr Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating, on why people will eat the last piece of stale chocolate cake ...
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Indian inspiration
Fudge-like barfi in slabs of green, pink and gold, crispy coils of jelabi glistening with syrup while traditional bakeries might turn out baps and Bakewells, Indian cuisine offers a different world of baked goods. With a culture including bread as a firm part of most meal times, fresh naans, chapatis ...