All Ingredients articles – Page 75
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Government reveals new sat fat pledge timeline
Saturated fat reduction is set to re-emerge on the government’s nutrition agenda, with plans for the Responsibility Deal Food Network to draft new pledges later this year, BB can reveal. This work would "supercede" previous targets set by the Food Standards Agency targets in 2009, prior to the quango’s nutrition ...
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Product NewsTate & Lyle secures £3.1bn sales for 2011/12
Global ingredients firm Tate & Lyle has reported a 14% growth in sales to almost £3.1bn in its full-year results.
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Anti-GM wheat activists halted by police
Protestors have been prevented by police from entering a research site in Hertfordshire where a trial of genetically modified (GM) wheat is taking place.
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First UK GM wheat trial vandalised
An intruder has broken into the Rothamsted Research Centre in Hertfordshire, where the UK’s first GM wheat trial is taking place.
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Lotus targets UK bakery ingredients market
Caramelised biscuit manufacturer Lotus Bakeries is targeting the UK ingredients sector for the first time with a new crumb-based product.
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Napier expansion creates 20 jobs
Sugar supplier Napier Brown plans to expand its Normanton factory and open a new distribution centre in Hull as it increases sugar imports from outside the EU.
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Kerry signs up for Federation of Bakers
Kerry Food and Ingredients has become the latest full-time member of The Federation of Bakers.
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Product NewsCSM to sell European bakery arm
CSM Global has announced plans to sell both its European and North American bakery businesses, to focus on bio-based ingredients.
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Report
The tide of rising ingredients costs could finally be turning for food manufacturers, according to Lee Linthicum, global head of food research at Euromonitor International. After increasing steadily from mid-2010 to mid-2011, the price of food inputs on global agricultural commodities markets remained high for the duration of 2011, squeezing ...
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Seed pricing
Pine nuts: Raw material prices in China have continued to climb and we are now, in sterling terms at least, some 20% higher than at the end of 2011. A disappointing Chinese crop set against hugely strong demand looks set to squeeze this market in 2012. Any respite from the ...
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Healthy oil from Larchwood
Larchwood Foods’ new rapeseed oil line offers bakers a high-quality yet cost-effective option for their products, said the firm. The Norfolk-based firm’s extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil contains half the saturated fat found in olive oil and 10 times the amount of Omega 3. It is rich in Omega ...
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Kerry butters up bakers
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours is looking to enhance the flavour of buttery biscuits with its new Beatreme range. The Irish supplier of food ingredients has developed the line, which includes cream, butter and cultured dairy, and has been created by naturally culturing fresh milk solids. The Beatreme range, which also ...
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Morrisons listings for Bacheldre
Bacheldre Watermill has secured listings for six of its lines in 383 Morrisons stores. The retailer will stock the mill’s organic spelt flour, stoneground organic rye and organic stoneground wholemeal flour in June, followed by three new products in July: Millers Malted and Rustic Crunch bread mixes, plus Rustic Country ...
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April showers bring welcome relief for wheat
Heavy rainfall in April has alleviated immediate concerns about the impact of the sustained dry weather on the UK’s wheat crop, although large swathes of England remain in drought. According to the HGCA, the wet weather has gone some way to "redressing the balance" following an exceptionally dry February and ...
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BBC radio show reviews egg supply
BBC Radio 4 presenter Sheila Dillon has assessed the supply of eggs in the UK following the European Union’s decision to ban battery cages.
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GM plea to protesters
Scientists developing genetically modified (GM) wheat have asked campaigners not to damage crops at a trial at Rothamsted Research.
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Real Bread Campaign steps up anti-GM wheat protest
The Real Bread Campaign has delivered a pledge to the government from more than 350 bakers, millers, farmers and consumers not to sell or buy GM wheat.
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Product NewsABF sees profit decline for ingredients and grocery
Associated British Foods (ABF) has posted a decline in operating profit for its ingredients and grocery divisions this morning. In its interim results for the 24 weeks ended 3 March 2012, ABF said its ingredients business, which includes yeast and bakery ingredients manufacturer AB Mauri, saw a £13m decline to £18m. Revenue grew by 2% to £538m. ABF’s grocery division, including the Kingsmill bread brand, reported a 4% growth in revenue to £1.8bn, but a £34m decline in operating profits to £75m. The company said this was primarily driven by restructuring costs at Allied Bakeries in the UK, in addition to George West Foods in Australia.
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Profit up nearly 30% at Carr’s
Carr’s Milling Industries said profit before tax in the first half of the year increased from last year, helped by a 12% growth in revenue.
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New measures to aid sugar market
A number of new measures to aid the fluidity of the European sugar market were passed at the management committee meeting at the European Commission yesterday (12 April).