All British Baker articles in July 2008 – Page 4
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Kate’s Cakes in Wetherspoons dessert
Wetherspoons is to use Kate’s Cakes brownies in its Chocolate Brownie Sundae. Kate’s Cakes has supplied the pub chain with its individually wrapped Chocolate Brownies for the last four years, which will now feature on the dessert menu.
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Contactless card roll-out at Coffee Republic
Coffee Republic is to introduce contactless card payment systems in its stores. The decision comes after a four-month trial in five of the coffee chain’s London outlets proved successful. In its Canary Wharf store, one in five transactions were contactless by the end of the trial.
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Fresha opens first café
An outside catering company based in Exeter is branching out with its first café. Fresha, based in Sowton, Exeter, purchased the new property, situated on the same site as its existing company activities on Sowton Industrial Estate, last week, and plans to open a café there in the first week of September.
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Sales boost for Britvic
Britvic enjoyed strong sales growth in the half-year to April. The soft drinks company’s sales for the 28 weeks ended 13 April 2008 were up by 28.6% to £454.7 million, with pre-tax profit up 13.2% to £17.2m.
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Hairy Bikers become Hairy Bakers
TV chefs The Hairy Bikers have been renamed The Hairy Bakers for a BBC2 series screening later this summer. Bike and food-mad duo Dave Myers and Simon King have travelled around the UK, from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands, speaking to the best professional bakers and pie makers as well as hobbyists.
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Scottish baker sells up
Scottish bakery M Corson Bakers, based in Castle Douglas, has been put up for sale as a going concern for £1.25 million.
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Scottish bakery for sale
Scottish bakery M Corson Bakers, based in Castle Douglas, has been put up for sale as a going concern for £1.25 million. The bakery founded in the 1800s is seeking a buyer due to retirement. It’s main retail site and bakehouse in Castle Douglas and its three other retail shops in Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie and Kirkcudbright are all included in the sale.
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Finsbury Food makes new appointments
Finsbury Food Group has unveiled a number of new appointments in its development and commercial teams. Annemarie Williams will be taking on the role of new product development manager, which will involve the overseeing of all own label product development and innovation.
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Premier Foods on profit target
Premier Foods looks set to meet its full year profit expectations despite a difficult economic and trading environment. Sales for the Baking & Milling division are approximately 16% ahead year on year for the first half, mainly driven by price increases across its bread and flour range. The company’s trading update also highlighted an increase in group sales by 7% and Hovis’ rejuvenation.
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Wild Bean’s first stand alone outlet
BP’s Wild Bean Café has opened its first stand alone outlet at Portsmouth’s Continental Ferry Port in Hampshire. Wild Bean, which sells ‘gourmet on the go’ food products, has been situated at BP filling stations for the last seven years; this move signals a natural progression for the company. The ...
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Sweating the system
For some, looking for government support - whether in grants, tax incentives or simply advice and training opportunities - has something of a stigma about it. That is, until they see who else is already benefiting from this type of support.For those in the know, it is a sign that ...
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Seasonal seller
Courgettes, also known as zucchini, are a very versatile vegetable with a delicate flavour. Courgettes were not widely eaten in Europe before the 20th century, but have been cultivated in Central America for 5,000 years and are related to watermelons, gherkins and cucumbers. They are plentiful in the summer months ...
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Principled packaging
Greener packaging - it’s straightforward, right? Plastics are "bad", while paper and cardboard are "good". Well actually, it’s not quite that simple, and even the experts don’t agree. Landfill, where most of the UK’s waste ends up, is under huge pressure. Space is due to run out within the next ...
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Milking your offer
The dairy sector has seen prices of raw ingredients rocket alongside all the other commodities, and the café and bakery retailing sector is no stranger to this. But aside from cost, what issues do bakery retailers and cafés face when it comes to the dairy products they use? Is ...
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Mill with a message
Matt Scott knew he faced a battle to make flour sexy when he bought Bacheldre Watermill seven years ago. After all, producing organic and traditional flours from a 16th century Welsh water-powered mill in Powys was, literally, miles away from his former life as a postman in Gosport.Yet he and ...
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Are they taking the Mannekin Pis?
This little curio popped into our inbox tagged with the eyebrow raising heading: "Belcolade’s chocolate Manneken Pis jets in for 20 Years of Passion celebrations", accompanied by a snap of a nude child made of chocolate.The press release revealed it was to do with Belcolade celebrating 20 years of producing ...
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Your say: letter
I must respond to your News Insight item ’Crunch time for training’ (27 June), to address what seems to be a lack of understanding regarding the important and entirely positive developments currently underway in bakery training in the UK.You say that "a storm is brewing at the heart of bakery ...
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Sandwich guru
Wednesday morning is my favourite morning of the week, not because I get up at 3am, but because, an hour later, I find myself at Billingsgate fish market, right in the hustle and bustle of one of the oldest fish markets in Europe, writes Adam Gilbert.I try to ...
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Up the function
Over the last year, healthy breads such as whole grain have experienced the fastest growth within the bread sector. The same period has also been marked by the widespread cleaning up of ingredients labels. This all amounts to great news for the shelf-life of the people eating the breads, but ...
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Watson fills sales role
Lawrence Watson has been appointed as head of sales and marketing at Rank Hovis, effective 1 September. He is currently sales director at Bowmans Milling in Hitchin, Herts.Watson told British Baker: "I look forward to joining Rank Hovis in September and also to the challenges of the job in this ...