All British Baker articles in July 2010 – Page 4
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NewsTameside student triumphs with scholarship
Tameside College bakery student Cameron Potts has been selected for the Hovis Scholarship Award, which enables students to obtain first-hand bakery experience through working with industry professionals.
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Food Standards Agency stripped of nutrition and labelling
The UK government has confirmed its intention to retain the Food Standards Agency (FSA), though a number of its former policy areas will become the responsibility of other government departments.
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NewsJohnstone’s Bakers trebles turnover
Johnstone’s Bakers has announced that its turnover has more than trebled since 2007 following a major investment in a state-of-the-art factory.
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In my world
Umer Ashraf is a young entrepreneur who owns the Glasgow-based iCafé chain of shops, as well as smoothie and juice bar Paradise Bay, in Oban, ScotlandAfter the lengthy and bumpy ride of getting the electricity sorted for our new premises, which I wrote about in my last column, we have ...
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Softly SOFHTe
It’s yet to be seen whether deputy PM Nick Clegg’s stated aim of burning through bureaucracy will be a bonfire of red tape or as the cynics might predict a kindling that doesn’t catch. But one baker has lit the touchpaper on her filing cabinet and, in so ...
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Bakers’ attractionExhibitor spaces at this year’s Bakers’ Fair in Bolton are filling up fast with several firms exhibiting for the first time. Among the newcomers is Polish bakery equipment supplier Masz, which plans to launch its slicers, mixers, moulders and ovens in the UK at the fair on Sunday, 3 ...
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Allied’s Tear DropsAllied Bakeries has invested in aerodynamic delivery trucks for Kingsmill, which help reduce fuel consumption. The company has introduced 23 ’Tear Drop’ trucks and two EcoStream delivery trucks to its fleet, which will carry the strap-line ’Kingsmill, on the road to slicing emissions’.Gluten-free growthThe global gluten-free market is ...
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Bagel on paradeA giant 3ft filled bagel, created by Bagel Nash to mark the opening of the Leeds Loves Food Festival, was carried through the streets of the city. The mammoth bagel was made using enough dough to make 300 regular bagels and weighed almost four stone.Burnley fire threatFamily-run bakery ...
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Online food outlet Self-confessed foodie Paul Boyce has set up FoodAdo.com an online business that showcases small family businesses developing UK produce and enables them to offer the ability to sell online via the site. Sussex-based Prosperity Brownies will act as its UK mail order arm.Marshfield monitoredWiltshire-based Marshfield Bakery ...
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Moonlight sonata
From steel worker to cake maker not exactly a likely career progression more like chalk and cheese. However, Lightbody Celebration Cakes’ David McClymont proved that this unusual career path can indeed be a winning one after being crowned Celebration Cake Maker of the Year, sponsored by Renshawnapier, at the ...
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Letter
I joined The Bakery School online with a year’s subscription, and also registered three of my staff members to complete the training. I would like to say what a good learning tool this has been for us. We are situated relatively remotely, so attending a college is fairly unrealistic for ...
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Italian innovation
When it comes to bakery companies, there are famous brand names, family names and quite a few foreign-sounding names. However, it’s not often one comes across a name so startlingly simple as Bakery and ironically the company is Italian.Bakery was started in 2004 by Roberto Parodi, who owned a ...
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More retailers join the home-grown wheat race
Supermarket enthusiasm for bread made with 100% British flour continues to grow, with Morrisons looking into making the switch in its in-store bakeries and Tesco launching an advertising campaign highlighting the use of home-grown wheat in its in-store farmhouse loaves.
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Home-spun handiwork
One book we’re unlikely to be reviewing is Knitted Cakes by Devon-based textiles author-cum-time-waster Susan Penny, which features a "mouth-watering" selection of mohair muffins and furry fairy cakes.This estimable tome to knit-wittery contains "twenty hand-knitted cakes to make and keep and twenty more to make and give away!" Yes, to ...
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Stifling the grass roots?
It goes against the grain, but some small bakers are effectively being priced out of getting organic certification. To carry the venerated Soil Association stamp, companies must fork out £548 plus VAT each year and a percentage of turnover if sales are more than £180,000 a year but it’s ...
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Messino goes head to head with Jaffa
Biscuit maker Bahlsen is to take on McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes with a new six-figure advertising campaign for its Messino cake an "upmarket oblong Jaffa".The drive to take market share from McVitie’s followed news that sales of Bahlsen’s Messino range were up 94% year-on-year.The new television advertisement was launched earlier ...
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Fruitful offering
Getting customers through the bakery door on a warm summer’s day involves some temptations away from the usual breads and morning pastries. Fresh fruit traybakes, fresh from the oven so the sweet aroma hangs in the shop air, is one approach used more in other countries and I’m thinking it’s ...
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Food in the news
l World salt talks have been taking place in London. A salt reduction forum, hosted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the World Health Organization, looked at what is necessary to set up a successful salt reduction strategy. The link to the report will be made available on the ...
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i-focus finds new flavour
Glacéau vitaminwater has launched a strawberry and kiwi variant, called i-focus. It contains Vitamins A, B and C and is available in a 500ml bottle.i-focus is the second new flavour to join the range. The launch will be supported by a marketing campaign entitled ’Show us your vits’."The vibrant pink ...
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Firms fight infection risk
CMC DayMark, in partnership with Steroplast Healthcare, has launched the Clinell range of infection control products for foodservice operators.Already used successfully in the healthcare sector, the new anti-microbial products have been clinically proven to be totally effective against all superbugs such as E.coli and salmonella. The range including hand ...