All British Baker articles in January 2009 – Page 6
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Exchange rate hits ingredients prices
Bakers are facing a sharp increase in the price of ingredients and equipment imported from the Continent, as the slump in the value of the pound bites.Since November, the value of sterling against the euro has fallen from £1.25 to close to parity - a 20% drop - forcing importers ...
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Warburtons’ Easter loaf
Warburtons’ Hot Cross Bun Loaf is to feature on the shelves of retailers once more from January. It will be available in a 400g format, made with sultanas and currants within sweet and mildly spiced glazed bread."Seasonal products such as the Hot Cross Bun Loaf help to build interest within ...
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Firm keeps lid on hazardous dusts
Manufacturer Dustcontrol UK is offering a range of air cleaners and vacuum cleaning systems for the bakery market, to guard against the dangers of airborne particles to bakers’ health.For example, suction casing can be placed at each area where flour is used, so it doesn’t escape any further into ...
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Recipe: Galette des Rois
By craft baker Christophe BlondIn France, January is the month bakers make a traditional ’Galette des Rois’, using some puff pastry dough and "almond cream". The ’Galette’ is sold with a crown, given to the person who discovers a figurine, which the baker has placed inside the Galette.The shelf-life of ...
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Scrummie deal for Northern
Matthew Walker is to launch a new sponge pudding range in Tesco and Sainsbury’s. The Scrummie puddings from the Northern Foods-owned business consist of five varieties, each topped with a different sauce.The puddings can be microwaved in 90 seconds and will be the first branded ambient pudding range launched in ...
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CSM slashes workforce at two of its plants
Bakery product supplier, CSM has announced an overall reduction in its workforce, with a total of 125 full-time employee redundancies.The jobs cuts have taken place at its factories in Wirral, UK, and Aartselaar, Belgium, and make up a total of 30% of the workforce across the two sites.CSM said ...
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La Crème expands its repertoire
South Wales-based La Crème Patisserie & Catering Co plans to expand its retail and wholesale operations, having completed the purchase of a new factory unit on the Baglan Moors in Neath Port Talbot.Directors Siân and Ian Hindle hope the new unit, the La Crème Centre of Excellence, will be fully ...
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Subway introduces value menu for cost-conscious
Sandwich chain Subway is to launch a value menu in March, targeted at credit crunch- conscious consumers.The range will include cheese toast, meatballs, soup and filled wraps, as well as new varieties of Subway’s signature submarine rolls, development agent James Fleck told British Baker."We believe we are recession-resistant in that ...
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Stacking up the cookies
Sugden, which specialises in hot plate baking equipment, has launched the Forpak ’Grouper’ Stacker Model GS range, following the formation of a strategic partnership with the Forpak Division of US-based company MultiSource.The GS Stacker creates and counts vertical product stacks, which are then fed onto a continuous conveyer that can ...
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Maple Leaf price-fixing inquiry continues
Canada Bread Company, the parent company of the UK’s biggest bagel supplier Maple Leaf, is continuing its investigation into allegations that an employee at its UK bakery operations, Maple Leaf Bakery, may have sought to influence the pricing of a competitor, Mr Bagel.These allegations have led to the suspension of ...
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Comment
"Salt will continue to be a major industry issue in 2009. The Federation of Bakers is very concerned that the new Food Standards Agency (FSA) targets likely to be set for 2012 will be technically impossible for the industry to achieve. The Federation is committed to an ongoing constructive dialogue ...
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Dawson Foodservice makes Comenda-ble dishwasher
Dawson Foodservice equipment has launched a new dishwasher for 2009. The Comenda XLC has been designed for coping with the washing-up needs of medium or large catering operations. It can be used to wash plates, cutlery, glasses, cups, trays and bake-ware.The unit is able to personalise cycles to meet specific ...
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Consumer watch Men and children first?
As we all know, the out-of-home market has grown substantially over the last 10 years and both chains and independent outlets have enjoyed a period of high consumer "affluence". But what happens when finances get tight and the first thing to be cut is discretionary spending, such as the out-of-home ...
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Challenge of the fittest in tough times
Last year was a tough year for high street retailers, with the shock demise of iconic high street brand Woolworths perhaps best capturing the turmoil facing traders. Bakery retailers were just recovering from runaway commodity, ingredients and utilities prices at the start of the year, when the economy went berserk ...
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New Zealander cashes in on a pitta Messiah
British Baker leaves no stone unturned in its quest for bakery enlightenment, which makes it all the more edifying to discover that heavenly powers now may be choosing bakery products as their vessel.It was with great pleasure - and no small measure of piety - that we followed the progress ...
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Cooplands extends offer into wholesale business
Bakery chain Cooplands (Doncaster) is planning to expand into wholesale for the first time, after being awarded a BRC rating. The company was recently audited against BRC issue 5 and awarded a Grade B.Previously, the firm had only manufactured products to sell in its 75-shop estate, but has worked with ...
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Nescafé broadens coffee remit
Nescafé has launched a bigger coffee offering for retailers who want to make more of their coffee sales. Go Large has been designed by Nestlé Professional to meet consumer demand for larger hot beverage sizes.A new 16fl oz cup is now available, which is 7fl oz more than a regular ...
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RGFC blends Renshaw business with Napier
The Real Good Food Company’s (RGFC’s) two principal businesses Renshaw and Napier Brown Foods are to amalgamate. The London office of RGFC has already closed and consolidated in Liverpool alongside the renamed renshawnapier.Renshaw is a leading manufacturer of marzipans, fondants, ready-to-roll icings, baking chocolate and jams, while Napier supplies sugar, ...
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Morrisons to offer ’significantly more jobs in bakery’
Morrisons is to expand its workforce by 5,000 in 2009, including new recruits in bakery.The additions form part of the supermarket’s continuing store space expansion plans. In December, the retailer announced that it will acquire 38 Co-operative Food and former Somerfield stores, increasing the number of its smaller-format shops.Around 4,000 ...
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BB links with NAMB for Bakers’ Review pages
From 30 January, British Baker will be publishing Bakers’ Review in partnership with the National Association of Master Bakers (NAMB).Bakers’ Review will feature once a month within the pages of British Baker, covering the latest industry, legislation and regulation news, as well as general advice on issues affecting craft ...