All British Baker articles in June 2006 – Page 4
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Ronde des Pains moves into Europe
French milling company Moul-bie has started rolling out its “Ronde des Pains” artisan bakery concept in Europe, following success in the UK.Commercial director of Moul-bie Europe Michel Nguyen said the first shops have been launched in Ger-many, Italy and Sweden over the last few weeks.More than 1,000 French craft bakers ...
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Demand for sweet products goes upmarket, says Rich
Retail sales of sweet bakery products, such as doughnuts and muffins, rose by 4.8% in 2005 to £1.3bn, in part thanks to coffee shops giving consumers a taste for premium products, according to research by TNS for Rich Products.Rich’s UK sales and marke-ting director Simon Richardson said the higher demand ...
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Decoration at a touch-screen
Designing a personalised celebration cake has now been made easier for consumers with the introduction of Kluman & Balter’s (Waltham Cross) next generation of in-store high-tech systems. The new photo-decoration system allows consumers to input their choices at a free-standing compact console, via an interactive touch-screen display. They are guided ...
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Dawn offers part-finished products
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) has produced a range of part-finished sheet cakes that can be thawed, finished and partitioned, allowing bakers to make their own mark on the finished product. The new sheet cakes are available in two flavours – carrot cake and chocolate brownie – and can be used ...
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Tesco fined on foam charge
Tesco has been ordered to pay more than £31,000 after a customer discovered a chunk of insulation foam inside a 400g white in-store bakery baguette. Sam Avery bought the sandwich at a Tesco Metro store in Norwich in 2004. Tesco pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on Monday to selling ...
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NewsExperts calm fears over cross-border relaxation
A RELAXATION of cross-border laws, aimed at creating a free market for the services sector, should not result in an influx of European bakers setting up shop in the UK, experts suggest.The new European Services Directive is set to remove the legal and administrative bar-riers that can prevent businesses from ...
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In Brief
A new guide from CCFRA, Crisis prevention through incident management: being prepared and responding effec-tively, aims to help food and drink firms prevent incidents, such as accidental contamination, from becoming crises that could damage or destroy their business. Tel: 01386 842225 or email: pubs@campden.co.uk.Allied Bakeries has appointed Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan ...
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Kingsmill moves into ‘heat and share’ bread market
Allied Bakeries, part of Associated British Foods, is aiming to grab a piece of the chilled garlic bread market with the launch of Kingsmill-branded ‘heat and share’ ciabatta and flatbread products, made by fellow Allied com-pany Speedibake.The products, including salsa and smokey BBQ ciabatta, cheese-topped doughballs and roasted garlic flatbread, ...
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NewsGreencore follows cost-cutting path and boosts profitability
Irish group Greencore is now down to 4,300 suppliers from 6,000 18 months ago, with the likelihood of a further reduction under its Total Lowest Cost cost-cutting programme.The group said the programme was contributing to a 2% per year cut in operating costs in its convenience foods division, whose bakery ...
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Tesco’s Omega basket roll-out nears completion
Supermarket Tesco has revealed it will have completed a roll-out of standard-sized bread baskets to all its plant bread fixtures by the end of its financial year.The new “one-size-fits-all” 10-loaf “Omega” baskets are now being used to display bread in 400 of its supermarkets, in the Midlands and the south. ...
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NewsB&D caters to unique demand
Essex-based firm Bekaert & Dupont (West Thurrock) says it always has to find innovative ways to decorate cakes. Demand for something unique to complement the finished product is ever-growing, says the firm. It constantly has to take a proactive approach, working with its sister company in Belgium, Ranson, to create ...
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NewsRenshaw urges bakers to be choosy on ingredients
“Consumers are looking for a cake with immediate wow factor – something wonderful that takes their breath away and creates that sense of celebration,” says Susanne Edler of the Anglo-Austrian Patisserie and Gloriette Patisserie in London. “Our experience indicates that consumers want quality celebration cakes with high levels of individuality ...
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NewsMix uptake for Bakemark
With rising popularity of licensed celebration cakes, supplier Bakemark UK (Wirral, Cheshire) is capitalising on the uptake of its cake mixes, which it claims provide ease of use and added functionality, such as shelf-life extension.The company’s Craigmillar brand includes a Rich Celebration Cake Mix, which can be used in both ...
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NewsA simple country bake
Once again, I have had a brilliant idea, which will make all our fortunes! It came to me when I bought a new telephone with two handsets. All the parts were loose in the box and you had to put them together. This reminded me of cheap furniture – and ...
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McDonald’s backs toasties
Fast FOOD chain McDonald’s said it has no intention of ditching its recently-introduced Toasted Deli Sandwiches, despite disappointing sales and a planned replacement of some of the range this summer.“There are no plans to cut back or drop the range,” said McDonald’s, after its UK chief operating officer declared himself ...
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Bakels goes back to Base
With the celebration cake market growing consistently over the last few years, ingredients supplier Bakels (Bicester, Oxfordshire) is offering a range of ingredients to produce celebration cakes for any occasion.The company says its Multi-Mix Cake Base can be used for a variety of cakes, with the addition of water, egg ...
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Zeelandia takes Neutral approach
The Christmas period alone demonstrates the importance of marzipan in celebration cakes, as shelves and shelves of marzipan are sold, says ingredients manufacturer Zeelandia (Billericay, Essex). The company is now offering what it describes as a superior quality marzipan, Tido Neutral 40. Unlike many marzipans which are made from apricot ...
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Last chance to enter Baking Industry Awards 2006!
Hurry you have until June 30 to enter the Baking Industry Awards, after calls for more time from our readers.Are you a plant bread or confectionery production manager making a mark on your business? Well, the Plant Production Manager of the Year category is for you! And calling all outstanding ...
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Sainsbury’s unveils top 10 list of plant bread loaves
Sainsbury’s has revealed that its top-selling loaf is Kingsmill Square White Medium 800g, followed by Hovis Square Cut White 800g.A top 10 list supplied by the supermarket also shows a wholemeal loaf in the line-up, as well as two breads “with bits” – Hovis Best of Both and Kingsmill Wholegrain ...
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NewsViewpoint
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Allied Baking and Milling Group’s new CEO, the cheery antipodean Brian Robinson, at Allied’s headquarters in Maidenhead. Robinson arrived in the UK last November and was then struck down by a mystery bout of pneumonia – perhaps an extreme reaction to the ...