All British Baker articles in June 2006
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NewsA woman’s touch
A straight-talking Mancunian has just taken over as national president of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA). You may think there is nothing unusual in that, but Shirley Ryder is not only the youngest person ever to hold the post but she’s also the first woman to be crowned ...
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NewsPressure Point
The feeling among millers is that this year’s crop is very good but, to mix farming metaphors, you should never count your chickens. Two years ago a month-long August downpour put a dampener on what in June-July was a great crop, leading to low Hagberg, low protein and quality issues. ...
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NewsWizards of Oz
For the past 15 years, Ian Martin, site manager of Manchester-based Martins Bakers and Sandwich Makers, has been involved in the artisan bakery scene in Australia, most recently giving specialist help to market leaders in organic sourdough bread, such as Brasserie Bread in Sydney and Dench Bakers in Melbourne. He ...
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Sayers workers in protest march
FamilieS of workers threa-tened with redundancy at Liver-pool bakery Sayers marched through the streets in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs.Protesters called on owner, Lyndale Foods, to invest in the site to help improve efficiency rather than shed more than 180 jobs and transfer much of the production to ...
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Letter
The situation in the UK’s bakery colleges is a cause for concern to the whole of the industry.If the present trends continue, then the majority of employees in the craft baking industry will have no access to a bakery college. It is precisely because of this situation, which has been ...
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Honeytop gains naan licence
Honeytop Speciality Foods is celebrating big sales increases resulting from its new ‘champagne’ naan breads.The speciality flatbread manufacturer came up with what it believes are the most authentic naans on the market, after upgrading production methods. The breads have a soft open texture and irregular bubbling as well as the ...
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Playing it cool
Excessively high temperatures at its Northwich, Cheshire, bakery led Frank Roberts & Sons to seek an effective cooling system.Roberts Bakery produces over two million bakery products a week for retail, catering and foodservice customers throughout the UK and Europe. Before the new system was installed, it was using general ventilation, ...
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Controlling interest
Bakers have embraced retarder-provers in recent years as the concept has developed dramatically, both in technology and the consistency of results. The latest machines employ sophisticated microprocessors and refrigeration advances, for perfect production in a variety of situations and with almost any type of bread and baked product. The ...
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Family firm to close doors as Inter Link consolidates
Inter LINK Foods is to close the recently-acquired Hoppers Farmhouse Bakery in a bid to consolidate operations. The 16,000sq ft factory in Herne Bay, Kent, will shut its doors early next year, with the loss of 130 jobs, when production will transfer to Inter Link’s highly automated 70,000sq ft Blackburn ...
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Foster claims an upper hand
As preferred bakery specialists of Foster products in the UK, Brook Food Processing Equipment (Minehead, Somerset) says it has been impressed with the advance in technology that these have brought to its specialised market within the last few years. Foster displayed its range of refrigeration equipment at Food & Bake ...
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Country Choice extends thaw-and-sell line
Country Choice has added several new products to its thaw-and-sell ranges as well as a Bake & Bite branded sandwich wedge pack.The company, based in Orpington, Kent, has added two new thaw-and-sell ready-baked, thick-sliced square-style loaves to its bread range, aimed at sandwich-making rather than retail sale. And it has ...
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Jordans capitalises on trend
Jordans Cereals is expanding its range of cereal bars with the new Nut & Seed Bar. The company says the launch is a result of increased popularity amongst consumers of nuts and seeds.Jordans Original Crunchy was the first cereal bar launched in the UK in 1980, claims the firm. The ...
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Improve calls on industry to draft diploma
Food and drink manufacturers are being urged to help draft a new industry diploma, as well as share their experiences of training older workers.Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, wants input from employers on a new vocational qualification for 14- to 19-year-olds that will be an alternative to ...
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In Brief
Bakels’ Low Gi bread mix helped the firm take the titles of Oxfordshire Business of the Year and Innovation of the Year. The Bicester-based company launched a successful marketing campaign behind the product, which included leafleting 1.3 million consumers through 1,300 independent bakers. Bakels now has plans for a new ...
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Double D boosts Gadsby’s
Gadsby’s Bakery in Mill Park, Southwell, is benefiting from the installation of a Humidair Retarder Prover from Double D Food Engineering (Broxburn, West Lothian), which it says has smoothed out “the peaks and troughs” in its production. “The Humidair Retarder Prover has been a tremendous boost for us,” says master ...
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NewsEditor tackles Blair on small shops
British Baker’s editor Sylvia Macdonald was among a small group of journalists invited to interview Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week. In light of the All Party Small Shops Group parliamentary reports, Sylvia asked the Prime Minister if the amount of red tape, restricted access for deliveries, limited parking ...
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United Biscuits up for sale
Biscuit maker United Biscuits has formally put itself up for sale by sending financial packs to potential buyers.Premier Foods and RHM are both expected to have asked for the information and first-round bids are thought to be due by the end of this month. However, United Biscuits’s future will be ...
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NewsStore’s best bakery named
Improved availability, product quality and good customer service have all led to a huge sales increase at Sainsbury’s in-store bakery in Lincoln.Turnover is up from £5,000 a week – when bakery manager Nick Markiewicz took over seven years ago – to £13,000, which wowed the judges at Sainsbury’s National Retail ...
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Burger bun bakers faced with redundancy
Workers at the Hemel Hempstead plant of East Balt Guenther Bakeries are facing redundancy, six months after the Buncefield blast badly damaged the premises and made it inoperable.The factory had been making burger buns for McDonald’s for over 20 years. It was formerly known as Golden West and owned by ...