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NewsSpeciality Breads to open new £3m bakery
Speciality Breads, the Margate-based wholesale bakery, is to open a new £3m bakery as it revealed it is seeing 30% year-on-year growth and is nearing a £6m turnover.
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NewsTesco records drop in UK like-for-like sales
Supermarket giant Tesco saw its operating profit fall by nearly 55% to £354m in its first half, it revealed this morning.
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NewsGreggs reports Q3 LFL sales rise of nearly 5%
Greggs, the high street bakery retailer, said it planned to “deliver good growth for the year” – as it announced third-quarter like-for-like sales (LFLs) of 4.9%.
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NewsSupermarket white loaf price down nearly 5%
A loaf of supermarket white bread has fallen by 4.5% in year, according to new research.
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NewsCarrier bag charge comes into force
From today English shoppers will have to pay 5p for plastic carrier bags at the checkout.
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NewsStaff turnover hits industry hard
Up to 17% of manufacturing and 24% of front-of-house staff leave their jobs every year, a new survey has claimed.
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NewsSpanish artisan bakery opens second UK bakery
Spanish bakery Granier is to open a second UK site in Woolwich.
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NewsCosta increases pay as new national minimum wage introduced
Costa Coffee has followed Starbucks in pledging to pay its staff more.
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NewsStarbucks franchisee secures expansion funds
Owner of the UK’s first Starbucks franchise Anil Patil has raised £10m to open 16 new sites.
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Product NewsTate & Lyle fined £18m for EU sugar deal
Tate & Lyle has been fined £18m over the 2010 sale of its EU sugars business to American Sugar Refining (ASR).
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Product NewsInvicta adds business development manager
Bakery, catering and food processing supplier Invicta Bakeware has appointed a new business development manager as part of a planned expansion.
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NewsAldi supermarket sales increase by a third
Discount supermarket Aldi has recorded record sales of £6.89 billion for its last financial year, a 31% increase on the previous (2013) year’s figure of £5.27bn.
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NewsSainsbury’s posts moderate sales growth
Sainsbury’s has revealed that total retail sales increased by 0.3% (excluding fuel) for the 16 weeks to 26 September 2015.
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Product NewsProper Cornish’s portable pies listed by major companies
Proper Cornish’s new, handheld ‘on-the-go’ pies have been listed by wholesaler Bidvest and caterer Compass Group.
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NewsInnovate to succeed, says foodservice research company Horizons
Operators must offer food from breakfast to bedtime with everything in between or they will be left behind by their competition, according to foodservice research company Horizons.
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Product NewsScottish co-operative launches premium doughnut range
Scotland’s largest independent co-operative has announced the launch of a new premium doughnut range.
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NewsGunstones back to business as normal
Union leaders have confirmed that a settlement has been reached in a pay dispute at Gunstones Bakery in Sheffield.
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NewsHovis scales back production at Wigan
Unions have confirmed that 40 jobs were lost at the end of July, when Hovis closed down a bread production line at its Wigan bakery.
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NewsStarbucks to boost staff pay
Coffee chain Starbucks will raise the average hourly rate it pays its staff to £7.98 per hour and offer a help-to-rent scheme.
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Product News
Shares dip at Real Good Food
Shares in Real Good Food (RGF) fell by nearly 2% – as the company announced revenue was down as it entered its new financial year.