All British Baker articles in July 2006
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NewsMrs Morton’s marmalade and currant cake
The original recipe comes from a notebook kept by the Morton family who ran a bakery in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, between 1890 and 1912.This recipe, entitled “4d cakes”, indicates how much each 1lb cakes should be sold for; the modern equivalent would be around £1.30.Makes 10 x 450g/1lb cakesMargarine or ...
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NewsRising to the challenge
You don’t hear many complaints from plant bakers these days about retailers selling bread below cost. But that doesn’t mean everything in the bakery is rustic. The sector still faces major challenges of restructuring and adapting to changing consumer lifestyles. And adapting to these will not be painless.Many bakers have ...
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NewsViewpoint
This week’s big news is another big fire (pg 3). Fletchers Bakeries, still owned by Northern Foods though up for sale, appears to have suffered “a catastrophic technical failure” in a processing plant, according to firefighters.Thank goodness no staff were hurt and it sounds as though Northern Foods is handling ...
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NewsPeople
Decorations, toppings and inclusions specialist Nimbus has appointed PAUL COBBET as business development manager, with a brief to open up new markets for the company, particularly within the foodservice sector. Cobbett joins the company after a five-year period at Oury Clark Consulting. Coding and marking solution supplier Markem has appointed ...
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NewsShoppers in Spain say ‘si’ to pasties
Cornish pasty company Crantock Bakery has opened its seventh shop in Spain, on the Costa Blanca shores of Puerto de Mazarrón.Crantock has teamed up with two Spain-based retailers – The Pasty Shack and Tasty Pastry – which are opening shops across the country. Since last autumn, The Pasty Shack, which ...
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Lighter muffins
Anthony Alan (Barnsley, Yorkshire) has developed a ‘healthier’ muffin under the Weight Watchers range, for which it holds the licence.The range includes double chocolate chip, fruity blueberry and lemon and sultana vaieties. The muffins are available in four packs or individuals (mini muffins in 12s and triple packs). The firm ...
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RHM spices up life with Sharwood’s
RHM Foodservice (Reading, Berks) is offering Sharwood’s Lighter ready-to-use sauces, which can be used to create low-fat sandwich fillings. Sharwood’s Korma Lighter, Tikka Masala Lighter and Balti Lighter sauces benefit from 50% less salt, 25% less fat and 25% less sugar than Sharwood’s traditional range, says the firm, yet they ...
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Hovis unveils relaunch plan
BRITISH BAKERIES is investing £20m in a relaunch of its Hovis range with new recipes, a new logo, thicker packaging and an advertising campaign to emphasise the brands health credentials.The roll-out of the new look across the entire Hovis range, including its Invisible Crust loaves and Hovis rolls, will be ...
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NewsIrwin’s steals a march on health
There can be no doubt that the modern consumer is the most demanding yet, putting ever more pressure on manufacturers to deliver foods that taste better than ever, but at the same time wanting increasingly complex and effective health benefits. As an everyday food, bread has come increasingly under the ...
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NewsGreenhalgh’s hits the road
Bolton’S Greenhalgh’s Craft Bakery has launched the first of a planned fleet of breakfast and lunchtime mobile shops. The vehicle sells sandwiches, pies, cakes and drinks to offices and work premises in several of Bolton’s major business parks.The van was unveiled by Kathleen Smart, MD of Greenhalgh’s. She said: “We ...
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Gangmasters law to hit labour supply
AN employment agency has warned that a labour shortage in bakery factories is looming with new gangmasters legislation coming into effect on 1 October. From that date it will become an imprisonable offence to supply labour to the food industry unless the labour provider holds a licence from the Gangmasters ...
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Minimum wage increases must be investigated, says FPB
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has called for a government investigation into the impact of minimum wage increases on smaller businesses. The national minimum wage is set to rise 30p to £5.35 an hour from 1 October for employees aged 22 and above. The rates for 18- to 21-year-olds ...
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NewsReal Good Food focuses on profits, not takeovers
Real Good Food Company is to focus on boosting profitability for the next 18 months, as its Napier Brown sugar division recovers from a drop in volumes at the start of the year.Speaking after the company posted a trading statement last week, chief executive John Gibson said Napier Brown was ...
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Geltec goes to work on an egg
Ingredients and retail products manufacturer Fayrefield FoodTec (Crewe, Cheshire) has developed Geltec egg replacers for use by bakers in place of real eggs. The egg replacers contain functionally enhanced milk proteins and there are different varieties, designed to replace a specific egg product for a specific application. According to the ...
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NewsThorntons reports sales decline
Confectionery company Thorntons said sales for the 52 weeks to 24 June 2006 were down 5.9% to £176.6m compared with £187.7m last year, in a trading update this week.Retail sales were down by 5.3% to £127m after the closure of two stores and like-for-like sales for the full year were ...
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NewsComment
This week, for a change, I thought why not write about business and make our editor Sylvia happy? There will be no mention of incompetent, lying, corrupt politicians, or even public-sector employee pension schemes. Instead, I’ll focus on how we should all be more efficient to keep the above in ...
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Cranberries clean up
Cranberry supplier Ocean Spray Ingredient Technology Group has introduced a new version of its sweetened dried cranberry (SDC). The natural juice SDC is claimed by the company to deliver all the health benefits associated with cranberries in an all-natural product. Sweetened entirely by natural fruit, it has a clean ingredient ...
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GVS offers ride on a carousel
With healthy sandwiches and wraps becoming an increasingly popular choice for a light lunch or snack, General Vending Services (GVS), based in Horley, Surrey, is offering bakers a carousel food machine to vend sandwiches.The company, which supplies machines starting at £25 per week, says that its carousel food machines ...
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NewsCarmen collected
US celebrity Carmen Electra was an unlikely presence at bakery college Brooklands last week, which was hosting a California Raisins-supported workshop for students. The surreal spot came about as the ex-Baywatch star was on location shooting a film called ‘I Want Candy’, also starring Mackenzie Crook (Gareth from The Office), ...
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Call to order
Confectionery and café chain Thorntons says it has come up with a better way of serving customers hot snacks, such as toasties and paninis, avoiding them standing around waiting or sending staff to find them when the snacks are ready.The company has been trialling a CustomerCall pager system from CST ...