All British Baker articles in July 2009 – Page 4
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Could your product gain protected status?
A speciality food group is on the look at for the next Midlands product with the potential to achieve protected name status. East Midlands Fine Foods is encouraging the producers of distinguished food and drink products to put their names forward as the interest in regional products continues to grow.Products ...
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Starbucks profits improve as it eyes a rebrand
Starbucks Corporation has announced strong third quarter results for the period ended June 28, 2009, and has exceeded its cost saving target the period.Despite a fall in net revenue from $2.6bn in Q3 of 2008 to $2.4bn in 2009, the firm said the success of its consumer facing initiatives and ...
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Starbucks profits improve as it eyes a rebrand
Starbucks Corporation has announced strong third-quarter results for the period ended 28 June, 2009, and has exceeded its cost-saving target for the period.
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Real Bread’s Lammas campaign
The Real Bread Campaign is encouraging bakers across the country to bake a special loaf to celebrate Lammas.Taken from the Old English for loaf mass, Lammas, on 1 August, is an ancient harvest festival where bakers and millers came together to celebrate locally produced bread.A number of bakeries have already ...
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Real Bread’s Lammas campaign
The Real Bread Campaign is encouraging bakers across the country to bake a special loaf to celebrate Lammas.
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POS material now available for National Cupcake Week
Point of sale material is now available for you to display during National Cupcake Week, which takes place from 14-19 September.The aim of the week is to draw customers’ attention to the everpopular bakery treat and the range of recipes and toppings available, and to tempt new and existing customers ...
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POS material now available for National Cupcake Week
Point-of-sale material is now available for you to display during National Cupcake Week, which takes place from 14-19 September.
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Rowe’s achieves first with concession in Asda
Cornish craft bakery Rowe’s has joined with Asda to launch the supermarket’s first in-store savoury bakery concession. It was officially opened on 16 July at the Asda store in St Austell, Cornwall, and features a 12ft long hot counter and 12ft ambient sections, as well as a food-to-go offering at ...
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Bread crusts could prevent cancer
Scientists have discovered that regular consumption of bread, and particularly bread crusts, could help prevent bowel cancer.
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Rowe’s achieves first with concession in Asda
Cornish craft bakery Rowe’s has joined with Asda to launch the supermarket’s first in-store savoury bakery concession.
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In Short
== Bread ambitions ==Heatherslaw Bakery hopes to be making bread "on a big scale", following the success of its new 1lb Heatherslaw bloomer, made with ingredients sourced within a three-mile radius. Heatherslaw Bakery in Northumberland, which employs up to 40 people, had previously concentrated on producing cakes and ...
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== Reduced sat fat ads ==United Biscuits has launched an advertising campaign to highlight the achievement it has made in reducing saturated fat in its McVitie’s Digestives, Rich Tea and HobNobs brands by 50%. The campaign will run for eight weeks.== Bakery for sale ==East Lothian-based wholesale business Trusty Crust ...
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== Coffee shops need better food focus ==Seventy-seven per cent of executives asked said coffee shops need to enhance their food offering, according to Allegra Strategies UK’s Executive Insight Report, published last month. There are now only 890 food-focused coffee outlets in the UK, compared to 2,900 coffee-focused companies, it ...
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Sell more this summer
How many times have you thought about how to increase your sales? Well here’s how: suggestive selling, up-selling, link selling and promotional selling.As retailers, you have so much power when it comes to the point of purchase with your customers. But you can increase your ’at counter sales’ by over ...
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So what’s in your sandwich?
Are you "thoughtful, inquisitive and independent without strong romantic ties" or are you "the life of the party" or even a "charismatic adventure seeker"? Then, boy, have we uncovered the sandwich for you! Or, to be honest, we haven’t... but the Chicago-based Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation (smellandtaste.org) ...
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Report
Research by Costa Coffee revealed that where people live not only affects their dialect but also how they taste food and drink. Taste preferences from 13,000 people in the UK’s major regions have been analysed by food psychologist Greg Tucker, with input from Andy Taylor, professor of flavour technology from ...
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Professional pilot
Ayear is a long time in the world of education quangos. The government overhauled the entire qualifications framework, launching a new Qualifications and Credit Framework (or QCF as it will no doubt become known - education bigwigs love an acronym). Meanwhile, the National Skills Academy (NSA) and bakery employers have ...
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Piero’s passion
Mention an industrial estate in Slough and it may well bring to mind an image of David Brent, the uncomfortably weird boss of a paper merchant, played by Ricky Gervais in BBC comedy The Office. However, the particular industrial estate on this occasion is home to speciality bread-maker Montana Bakery ...
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Mouthing off
"It’s devastating - a £2 sandwich has cost me my business, my home and everything I’ve worked on for the last 35 years"- UK businessman Tony Scott rues the day he stopped for a £2 chicken sandwich, as thieves stole £500,000 worth of jewellery from the back seat ...