All British Baker articles in July 2010 – Page 8
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Taste of the Med
Byron Bay Cookie Company has added a Lemon & White Chocolate Cheesecake Cookie to its range. Unveiled at this year’s Caffe Culture exhibition at the end of June, the cookie features chunks of white chocolate, the zest of Mediterranean lemons and lemon curd.Baked in the UK, the new cookie is ...
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Mini mocha maker
Melitta highlighted what it claims is the world’s smallest fully automatic coffee machine the new C35 at the Caffe Culture exhibition last month.A working preview model of the new C35 was on display, and is due to be available in the UK from September. The machine has been ...
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July in-store: ’sun-sational’ offers
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business accelerator specialising in foodservice, bakery and convenience retail sectorsAs you know, when the sun shines our sales are often negatively affected. So, in order to protect ourselves what factor sun-screen do we need to slap on?The answer is simple: keep ...
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An idea that’s a steal
We’ve stolen enough from America in recent year muffins, giant cookies, glazed doughnuts, cupcakes, whoopie pies. Why not nick the latest bakery retail concept that is quite literally a steal? A few months ago, Stop the Week picked up on a ’Pay what you like’ experiment carried out by ...
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Government has plans for planning system
The new government looks set to simplify the planning system and encourage coffee shops to open stores in high streets.Its Coalition Agreement has set out proposals first announced in the Tories’ green paper, Open Source Planning, which includes a pledge to tackle deliberate breaches of planning control and limit the ...
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Frozen garlic: it’s the future
Rectory Foods is hoping to make inroads into the bakery ingredients sector with the launch of a new 10-strong range of garlic products suitable for bakery. The firm now offers premium frozen and dehydrated garlic as well as an ambient sterilised purée.The frozen range includes premium whole garlic cloves, as ...
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Tilting screen resists flour
Point-of-sale management and till manufacturer Aures Technologies has launched a new tilting screen version of ELIOS an all-in-one slimline EPoS terminal.The base of the EPoS terminal now features a hinge system which enables the touchscreen display to be tilted to any angle between 0 and 60°.The firm says the ...
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Fit for purpose: Window on your world
Richard Hamilton of HamiltonBIG, a creative retail and brand consultancy, discusses the benefits of a good shopfrontA window on the world works both ways when talking shopfronts. It’s your marketing showcase, so make sure it’s right.Shopfronts come in all different styles and materials many dictated by the existing building, ...
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Street fight
Civic-minded residents in the London suburb of Pinner were slightly miffed when Starbucks opened in the high street. But they were fuming when it transpired the coffee giant did not have the proper planning permission.Despite this, Starbucks won a planning appeal against Harrow Council in May and has continued to ...
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Honeytop places faith in tortilla production
Honeytop has more than doubled capacity at its bakery and claims to have the world’s largest and fastest tortilla line.The Dunstable-based family firm, which also manufactures naans, flatbreads, pancakes and crumpets, has seen demand soar for its tortillas, prompting it to ramp up production at its site in Woodside Industrial ...
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Reporting in Drowning in a sea of nothings
Alan StuartPresident, Scottish BakersWhen I was a young lad in the 1950s, a million of anything seemed almost inconceivable. A really rich person was literally a millionaire and I struggled to comprehend anything beyond that. Today, we bandy billions and even trillions around and therein lies the nub of it. ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Raisins: California has significantly increased exports this season from a reduced total crop. The development of the new crop in Turkey is not quite as good as earlier reports suggested. Given Turkey’s major loss of raisin business to California this season, weather permitting at harvest, it is highly likely that ...
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European Parliament plays down label fears
The European Parliament (EP) has been forced to quell fears that bakery businesses would be banned from denoting the number of products on multi-packs, after a proposal for the continuation of selling by number was rejected by MEPs in a recent vote.Politicans voted against the inclusion of a provision in ...
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Muntons doubles malted flake output
Consumer demand for healthier breads has led malted ingredients supplier Muntons to double output at its flake manufacturing site. The firm is now capable of supplying more than 10,000 tonnes of malted flakes per year.Muntons said: "Much of the increase is consumer-driven, with people looking for healthier and more interesting ...
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Hayden’s expands plant in Devizes
Hayden’s Bakeries has opened bigger premises in Devizes, with the aim of creating 150 new jobs over the next three years. The firm, a division of The Real Good Food Company, makes bakery, patisserie and chilled dessert products for retailers including Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. It has added 30,000sq ...
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Cupcake innovations
A week is a long time in cupcakes. Two weeks, an age. Here are our top cupcake trends spotted in the build-up to National Cupcake Week and our UK Cupcake-off competition (deadline 16 July).1. That perennial poser ’coffee and doughnut or coffee and cupcake’ is rendered redundant by the coffee ...
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CSM’s frosting reception
CSM has launched a new range of Craigmillar Frostings for topping or filling cakes. The firm said the frostings range is suited to American-style products, such as cupcakes, brownies and whoopie pies.The frostings contain natural flavours and are available in vanilla, chocolate and caramel varieties. They come in 10kg pails.By ...
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Cornish pasties make progress on PGI status
Cornish pasties could be granted PGI status within seven months, after the case was published in the Official European Union Journal. If no objections are raised from other EU member states (outside the UK) in the next seven months, it will mean that only Cornish pasties made in Cornwall to ...
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NICE conflicts with FSA over sat fats
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) position as the nation’s nutritional guardian appears to be slipping as fellow government quango the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) publishes conflicting advice on saturated fats.FSA guidelines published earlier this year called for a 10% reduction in saturated fat in plain cakes ...
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Scullions comes to the rescue for Fords
Helen Gregory Scullions Wholesale Bakery, a subsidiary of the McGhee Group, has bought fellow Scottish firm Fords Bakery out of administration, saving 87 jobs. However, the East Lothian firm’s nine shops have closed, with the loss of 41 staff, and another 26 have been made redundant from the bakery in Prestonpans.