All British Baker articles in January 2008 – Page 2
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Carr’s contest
Carr’s Milling Industries is to sponsor the World Marmalade Festival, held in February. This will mark Paddington Bear’s 50th birthday and is designed to give "the traditional marmalade sandwich a make-over", said Caroline Dale of Carrs Breadmaker.Bakers have been asked to design a new sandwich filling incorporating marmalade. The top ...
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EU duty ban holds little sway
The European Union’s suspension of import duties on cereals will not have a significant impact on prices, because most of the imported wheat used in flour is of high quality and duty is already set at zero, Alex Waugh, director general of the National Association of British and ...
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Village turns out in support of bakery
More than 200 people attended a public meeting in a Suffolk village last week to support their bakery, which is locked in a bitter dispute with the local parish council over access.Palmers Bakery, which has been run by the same family in Haughley since 1869, has been told by the ...
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Midlands bakers enjoy a merry little Christmas
It was a bumper Christmas for two Midlands-based bakeries, which enjoyed record sales.Mike Holling, retail operations manager, Birds of Derby, told British Baker last week that there was a queue of 45 customers waiting outside the bakery shop at 5.30am on Christmas Eve, with a peak of 60 people by ...
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UK Bakeries saved as Kirtons steps forward
A total of 41 jobs have been saved after Kirtons Bakery stepped in to buy the business and assets of UK Bakeries in Leicester.The deal to rescue the business was sealed earlier this month when Kirtons managing director Minaz Dharamshi, who has been involved in turning around other businesses, decided ...
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Salt appraisal
Bakery bread from supermarkets, tested for salt content by the consumer magazine Which?, fell within the ’amber’ range - neither high nor low - under the Food Standards Agency’s traffic-light system for food labelling.The survey, published this month, showed that Asda’s Granary tin had the least salt, with 0.5g of ...
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Heavenly ambition
"If we had to put one cake forward to the devil, I think the brownies would save our lives," says Nigel Green, co-owner of the ironically named Heavenly Cakes - presumably the world’s first Satanist bakery. Dabbling in the not-so-black arts of baking traybakes, this business grew out of ...
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Geoff Dossetter, external affairs director, Freight Transport Association
The UK economy is in dire need of the construction of purpose-built, efficient and adequate roads to improve bakery delivery and cut the awful cost of congestion. UK transport needs more than a sticking plaster; it needs a major operation.Following the successful experiment of running traffic on the hard ...
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ABF registers rise in revenues
Associated British Foods, which owns Allied Bakeries and British Sugar, has reported a 13% rise in group revenue over the corresponding period last year, despite a 12% fall in sugar revenues, according to the company’s interim management statement.During the 16 weeks to January 2008, the group said the rise in ...
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Jan 25
"Google is white bread for the mind... it’s filling, but it doesn’t necessarily offer nutritional content" – And we thought white bread was a good thing! Professor of media studies Tara Brabazon, at University of Brighton, frowns upon students using Google for research instead of the library
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23 Mar, 1934
Most London bakers are becoming seriously perturbed about the position of flour prices in relation to the official Food Council scale for bread prices.And although we have regarded it as our duty to remark upon the disappointing quality of some of the flour that has reached the bakers latterly, it ...
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NewsWhat-evah!
Ever been asked, “What would you like to drink?” and replied, “Anything” or “Whatever”? Then Singapore drinks company Out of the Box has the perfect brands for you: Anything and Whatever. Anything comes in six carbonated varieties – Cola with Lemon, Apple, Fizz Up, Cloudy Lemon and Root Beer – ...
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viewpoint
"The biggest challenge in 2007 by far, was prices." Not my words but those of Peter Williams, bakery director of that excellent business Simmons of Hatfield (pg 13). And they are words that continue to be echoed across this issue and the whole industry.Despite the challenges, Simmons aims to open ...
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viewpoint
"The biggest challenge in 2007 by far, was prices." Not my words but those of Peter Williams, bakery director of that excellent business Simmons of Hatfield (pg 13). And they are words that continue to be echoed across this issue and the whole industry.Despite the challenges, Simmons aims to open ...
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viewpoint
"The biggest challenge in 2007 by far, was prices." Not my words but those of Peter Williams, bakery director of that excellent business Simmons of Hatfield (pg 13). And they are words that continue to be echoed across this issue and the whole industry.Despite the challenges, Simmons aims to open ...
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Practical stance
In December 2007, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) concluded that mandatory restrictions on trans fats should not be imposed.Legislation to limit the level of trans fats in food has been introduced in New York and in Denmark, and the key question for the FSA in the UK was whether regulatory ...