All British Baker articles in July 2008 – Page 2
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Warburtons turns in good performance
Warburtons enjoyed another successful year in 2007, with profits and turnover up on the previous year.The family-owned company’s pre-tax profits were £49m, £5.7m higher than 2006, despite "unprecedented volatility in both energy and raw materials", according to chairman Jonathan Warburton. Turnover for the same period was £414m, a growth rate ...
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Parliamentary food group launched
An All-Party Parliamentary Food and Drink Manufacturing Industry Group has been launched this month. The group has a broad remit, including providing a forum for debate and discussion for industry issues, such as increasing food prices or the impact of the food industry on the environment. It also aims ...
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Premier Foods reports positive first-half forecast
Premier Foods has said it expects an increase in sales for its Baking & Milling division in the first half of this year.In a trading statement, Premier said sales would be around 16% ahead year-on-year for the six months to June, driven by price increases. Sales of Hovis, which it ...
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Singapore firm plans foreign foray
Singapore-based bakery retailer BreadTalk plans to open around 800 more stores around the world over the next three years. The company, founded in 2000, currently owns 83 BreadTalk and Toast Box shops and 118 franchised outlets worldwide."Our goal is to increase our presence to 1,000 outlets by 2011. This includes ...
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Ishida links equipment
Ishida Europe is launching a new software programme that can link up to 100 checkweighers to provide valuable production data.The Ishida Data Capture System (IDCS), offers a range of reporting options, allowing production managers to employ state-of-the-art monitoring for legislative compliance. The user-friendly software will also enable users to identify ...
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The great training debate
OK, so let me confess straight up - I am an accountant and the amount I truly know about baking can be written on a grain of baking powder. The only time I have ever baked was on a 72-foot, 50-tonne yacht in the mid-Atlantic, which was racing for ...
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Délifrance’s summer offer
Délifrance has launched two new pastries aimed at maximising catering opportunities in the longer days and lighter evenings throughout summer. The first is a lighter Viennoiserie, an apricot fruit basket, topped with half a Moroccan apricot.A raspberry and custard basket, filled with 16% raspberry jam and topped with light crème ...
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Linpac cuts its film to suit
Linpac Packaging has launched a new polyolefin stretch film called MagicLIN. The film has been designed to be easier to cut than traditional cling films, and can be cut by hand, removing the need for a blade.The film is made from multi-layer polyolefin, and can be used to cover food ...
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Rest your wrist - on a croissant
The benefits of allowing your pastry to rest are well-known. Just as important is letting your pastry-making wrist rest at the end of a hard day’s work. After all, when it comes to powering up your PC to do your accounts, the rigours of pushing a computer mouse around could ...
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Dupont goes under cover
DuPont has launched the DuPont Tyvek Dual coverall, designed to offer flexibility, breathability and added durability.The Category III, Type 5 and 6 protective garment features front and sleeves made entirely from Tyvek fabric and a back panel made of DuPont’s composite technology (ACT) fabric. The Tyvek material offers protection ...
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RGFC to tackle costs with increased prices
Food manufacturing group the Real Good Food Company (RGFC) has reported strong sales in its bakery ingredients division, up 13%. RGFC indicated it would seek to again increase prices in response to its own rising costs.Sales in its bakery division - made up of Wiltshire-based Hayden’s Bakeries and Seriously ...
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Roberts uses continuous motion for loaf labelling
Roberts Bakeries in Cheshire has installed five purpose-designed high-speed Series 515 print-and-apply labelling machines. The machines allow individual loaves, fed from different lines, to be identified at a central point for loading into trays - either by operators or automatically.The Series 515 machine, supplied by Logopak UK, can label up ...
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Clean sweep
A recent announcement by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) suggests that the number of foreign workers being exploited is higher than previously thought, particularly in the food processing industry. To tackle the problem of rogue employers, the GLA launched Operation Ajax, an initiative that will see the authority carry ...
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Paper chase
You don’t have to be a big-scale operation to take advantage of IT, and a number of smaller bakeries have benefited from a long-established package, tailored to craft businesses, which has recently been upgraded.Newcastle-based Thomsons Bakery - a retail/wholesale company that employs 15 full-time staff, run by husband and wife ...
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Caribbean specialist chips in
Enco Products is launching its first mainstream snacking range. The new range consists of green banana chips, plantain chips and sweet plantain chips, and will be available in 85g bags.Enco, a division of Grace Foods UK, is a market leader in the UK’s Caribbean food and drink market, and is ...
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Carr’s gives bullish profit forecast
Carr’s Milling Industries has raised its profit forecast for the year to 30 August, 2008. The mil-ling and machinery giant said it had enjoyed strong trading since its last update on 27 May.In a statement, Carr’s said its board has upwardly revised guidance, with full-year profits expected to be around ...
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In the market for... ethnic breads for sandwiches
By bakery consultant Wayne CaddyIn my last article, I discussed the potential impact of hero products and how they could often be at the heart of a good business strategy. Following on from this, while travelling in India, I saw some great ideas for street food - tandoori chicken or ...
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Research reveals health benefits of coffee
New research has revealed that despite the myths surrounding perceptions of coffee drinking, it may be more beneficial to our health than we think. The British Coffee Association undertook new market research which uncovered that 74% of coffee drinkers have tried to reduce their consumption as they believe it can be addictive, and 50% of drinkers think it’s dehydrating.
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FSA sets new targets for salt reduction in bakery
The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) has published new salt reduction targets for food manufacturers for products including bread, cakes, biscuits and snacks. The FSA has launched a public consultation on proposals that will make its voluntary targets stricter. They include tightening 2010 salt reduction targets ...