All British Baker articles in June 2007 – Page 5
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All from scratch
Amidst the cacophony of healthy-eating messages and manufacturers scrambling to put a healthy spin on their products, it’s refreshing to hear one organic baker proudly declaring her cakes as ’unhealthy’."Six years ago, you either had good cakes that were not organic, or you had organic cake that was a compromise ...
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GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION Where in the Magna Carta is it written that the government can tell me how to run my business, asks an aggrieved Tony Phillips
Have you ever wondered where in the wedding certificate it says that a man’s hair becomes communal property when he is married? Where does it say that the wife decides when it needs cutting and grooming? I never tell my wife when to go to the hairdresser.You may well think, ...
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Meals on wheels
A £500,000 TV advert shows the making of a full-sized Skoda Fabia car made out of cake. The two companies involved in ingredients sourcing and baking of the main sponge blocks, are Flour Power City Bakery and the Cake Bake Company. Renshaw supplied sugar paste. See British Baker 8 June
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Your letters
In spite of Andrew Whitley’s claim, in his letter (11 May), that he is not attacking "the whole milling and baking industry", he persists in suggesting our industry is not only dishonest about materials and techniques, but is also guilty of mendacity and a cynical manipulation with selective additions of ...
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Vandemoortele investment
Belgian food group Vandemoortele said last month that it is to invest more than E70 million throughout this year, "in an aim to drive forward continued capacity growth and efficiency improvements".The group is planning to fill up to 113 new vacancies. "We are making significant investments in staff, brands and ...
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Hot topics
From bread weights to salt to carbon footprints, a special FOB panel, representing a cross-section of the industry, discussed the pros and cons for the bakery trade.Chairman Sylvia Macdonald, edi-tor, British Baker [SM]: Should bread weights be deregulated?Joe Street, managing director, Fine Lady Bakeries [JS]: I’m fairly ambivalent about it ...
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SAMB discusses industry pressures
At the Scottish Association of Master Bakers conference, which took place over the May Bank Holiday weekend, Stanley Smith, convenor of the SAMB technical committee, told delegates that pressures in the industry had changed in 2007 from being legislation-based to being supermarket- and industry-led.Smith cited nine different methods of ...
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Deregulation to happen
Legislation covering wrapped bread weights is set to be scrapped in the UK next year, after an about-turn by the European Parliament.An amended version of the EU Nominal Quantities directive, voted on last month and just published, will deregulate weights and sizes for all pre-packed products, except for wines ...
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Let the judging commence
The deadline for getting your entries in for this year’s Awards has now closed, and judging is busily under way. Panels of judges for each of the categories will be whittling down the entries to find the top three contestants in each field. The shortlisted three will then be invited ...
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Starbucks tops poll of UK coffee shops
The UK’s branded coffee chain market continues to expand rapidly, exceeding 3,000 outlets for the first time in May 2007 and an estimated £1.3 billion in turnover, according to new research from Allegra Strategies.Its report, UK Coffee Craze Continues, forecasts the coffee shop market will nearly double over the next ...
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Café couture
Cake companies were out in force at last week’s Caffè Culture show in London, hoping their exclusive delicacies would catch the eye of a passing Starbucks buyer.Caffè Culture, now in its second year, took place at the London Olympia exhibition centre, with 175 exhibitors, including Typhoo, Nestlé, Café Direct, Dairy ...
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Briefs
n Latest companies to sign up as exhibitors at next year’s Baking Industry Exhibition include Pentagram, HMP Lindholme andStable Micro Systems. BIE08 takes place at Birmingham’s NEC on 6-9 April 2008.n Administrators report that talks with a buyer for the Hull-based Skeltons bakery chain are continuing. Meanwhile, Martin’s Cakes & ...
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Business boost
The streets are alive with the smell of coffee, but not necessarily from bakery shops - an omission Chris Brown, director and co-owner of Turpin Smale Foodservice Consultancy thinks is a shame. "It is ludicrous that you can buy a pastry from many retail bakers but not a coffee to ...
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Lise Madsen of organic cake firm Honeyrose Bakery tells us why organic cakes don’t have to be healthy! See British Baker 8 June
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Zeelandia backs bakery open day
Ingredients supplier Zeelandia and Glovers Bakery held two open days, on 18 and 19 May at the Glovers shop in Leyland, to promote speciality breads.Zeelandia provided technical support, promotional material and ingredients. The focus was on its Prokorn, Fiesta Corn, Exakt Ciabatta and O’mega products. The Exakt Ciabatta was made ...
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Automatic vision
In navigating a path through the Total Packaging Show’s five seas of stands - a quintet of enormous halls showcasing the shiniest new packaging and automation technology - a common theme quickly emerges: the Brave New World of bakery appears to be finally with us.Over the past 12 months, bakery ...
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Defra sees rise in at-home bread consumption
The average person ate 0.8% more bread at home in 2005-06 than the previous year, according to Defra’s Family Food 2005-06 survey, released last week.The annual report on food and drink purchases in the UK says that the average person bought 701g of bread per week to eat at ...
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Jim Winship, director, British Sandwich Association
The recent closure of a sandwich business, due to listeria, highlights for us all the added risks chilled food operations all have to contend with these days, over and above the complexities of running any business.Like other bacteria, listeria is not something you can see or touch, yet the potential ...
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Age aware
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force on 1 October, 2006, providing protection from age-related discrimination in the workplace for employees and applicants alike. Now, the first Employment Tribunal case to reference the legislation has been heard and has seen a 67-year-old employee reinstated to her post.Consequently, it is ...
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International activity
The International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) will be held in Orlando, Florida on 7-10 October.An anticipated 800 exhibiting companies - including manufacturers, ingredient and equipment suppliers, distributors and packaging systems - will showcase exhibits to 20,000 attendees from all segments of the industry, from wholesale plant bakeries to artisan bakers.According ...