All British Baker articles in July 2006 – Page 3
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Irish baker sells to food processing firm
Leading Irish artisan bakery My Own bakery in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, has been sold by Siobhan Walsh, the woman who started the business five years ago, writes Hugh Oram.Walsh sold the business for an undisclosed sum to a Dublin-based food processing company, CWK Food Processing of Baldoyle, Dublin. The owner ...
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Irish baker sells to food processing firm
Leading Irish artisan bakery My Own bakery in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, has been sold by Siobhan Walsh, the woman who started the business five years ago, writes Hugh Oram.Walsh sold the business for an undisclosed sum to a Dublin-based food processing company, CWK Food Processing of Baldoyle, Dublin. The owner ...
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BakeMark’s variety drive
Quality, variety and convenience are driving the growth in premium baked goods, argues Wirral-based BakeMark. This is forcing bakers to juggle already-stretched resources to meet demand.Using its range of cake mixes means bakers can spend less time weighing and measuring and more time devoting their efforts to creativity, argues the ...
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Bakels benchmarks new mixes
BAKELS (Bicester, Oxon), a supplier of specialist ingredients to the UK bakery market, has relaunched its Sponge Mix Complete range. Both the Plain and Chocolate Sponge Mix Complete have been reformulated as a result of the company’s drive for innovation and emphasis on manufacturing the best products in the ...
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NewsBAKING from the archives
Britain has a rich baking history and there are some surprising tastes to be re-discovered in old recipe books, writes historian Sue Davies. Over the next few weeks, we will be delving into the archives and seeking out recipes up to 200 years old, found in books held by the ...
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NewsNA welcomes Sunday Trading announcement
The National Association of Master Bakers (NA) has welcomed a government decision that Sunday trading legislation is to remain unchanged.Last week’s announcement from Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling followed a review of the legislation, which has been in place for the past 10 years. This restricts stores over 3,000sq ...
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Asda names Murdoch Allan best local supplier
Scottish wholesale and retail baker Murdoch Allan has been chosen from around 400 suppliers as Asda’s Local Supplier of the Year 2006. It was awarded the title in recognition of its high-quality products, excellent customer focus and level of service at a recent Asda local sourcing conference in Leeds. Murdoch ...
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EU reform prompts ABF to tighten up British Sugar
Associated British Foods (ABF) is proposing to close British Sugar’s York and Allscott beet sugar factories after the end of the 2006/7 campaign, leaving it with four UK factories.George Weston, chief executive of ABF, said the move will boost efficiency: “We intend ultimately to produce more sugar from four ...
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19th Bakery Industry Awards
The entries are in, the judging has begun and preparations are well under way for this year’s Baking Industry Awards evening. Staged at the prestigious Grosvenor House hotel in London on 18 September, the Awards will pay tribute to some of the finest talent that UK bakeries have to offer, ...
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NewsViewpoint
It was a marvellous summer’s day. The sun shone, the Champagne flowed, London landmarks such as the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral and the portals of the National Gallery shimmered in the bright light. A group of partygoers gathered on the roof of the Trafalgar Square Hilton to celebrate Warburtons’ ...
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NewsThirst Service
The biggest sales gains in soft drinks last year came from those perceived to be healthier, such as water, juices and dairy drinks, but cola is still the largest sub-category. Jason Roots, sales manager at Bako London, says Coca-Cola and Diet Coke continue to be the best-sellers, but other drinks ...
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NewsObituary
The widely known Sadie Chandley, who founded the Manchester-based oven manufacturer Tom Chandley with her husband Tom, has died aged 97.She took an active interest in the business until very recently and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1994. Sadie and Tom set up the business in April 1944 with a ...
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Search for raisin innovation
You have just over a week left to enter the California Raisin Administrative Committee’s (CRAC) competition to find innovative uses of its raisins. The best innovation will win an all-expenses paid study trip for four people to California, plus an unspecified amount of support for advertising and public relations for ...
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Hovis leads the way on RHM’s road to recovery
The RHM group trumpeted “a significantly improved trading performance” in the second half of the year to 29 April. The full year pre-tax profit fell to £7.4m from £63.7m the year before.Although group sales grew 2.1% last year to £1.6bn, growth picked up in the second half and reached 3.7%, ...
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NewsThorncroft launches Healthy Thirst
“There is a gap in the market for a radical alternative to ordinary soft drinks,” says Guy Woodall, founder and chairman of Thorncroft Drinks (Surrey). “Soft drinks are perceived as unhealthy and there is good reason for this. They may have as much as 15% sugar an/or be full of ...
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FIZZY POP GOES FLAT
It was panic stations in March when the Food Standards Agency (FSA) pressed the alarm over soft drinks on sale in Britain that contained the cancer-causing chemical benzene. Although only a handful of drinks were affec-ted, the ensuing negative publicity heaped more woes on the soft drinks industry, which has ...
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A Tall order from Drury
The Drury Tea & Coffee Company (London) unveiled its latest range of espresso coffees using the Rancilio Classe 8 Tall machine, imported by associate firm The Coffee Machine Company at the inaugural Caffé Culture exhibition in May.Designed with coffee shop and takeaway markets in mind, the Classe 8 Tall machine ...
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NewsJuice Doctor gets Olympic support
Juice Doctor is a new, natural fruit drink backed by Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave designed to combat dehydration, which it says affects two out of three people.The company has worked with nutritionists to develop a formulation which improves water, vitamin and mineral uptake by the body. The drinks are ...
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NewsFocused future for HGCA, but detail unclear
THE planned restructuring of the five agricultural and horticultural levy boards, including the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), promises a more focused, efficient and cross-sector approach to industry issues, said Jonathan Cowens, HGCA chief executive.Yet details of the changes just announced by the government, after a review by former PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
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Failed Furniss to be snapped up ‘within days’
Biscuit company Furniss of Cornwall could have a new owner within days, predicted the administrator Ian Walker, who last month took charge of the business when it went into administration.Walker, of Begbies Traynor, said that Furniss “just ran out of cash”, but added: “I’m fairly confident that it is going ...
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