All British Baker articles in June 2009 – Page 6

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    Organic cake for kids

    5 June 2009

    Organic bakery Honeyrose launched two new ranges at Caffè Culture last week - Honeyrose Kids and Honeyrose Minis. MD Lisa Rose said the bakery saw a gap in the market for the ranges. "It is the first organic cake range developed specifically for kids, that we are aware of in ...

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    Caffè Culture snapshot

    5 June 2009

    == Artisan style ==Artisan Biscuits trialled its new cookie concept at Caffè Culture. Under The Fine Cookie Co brand the American-style chewy cookies will be available in Rainbow Nation, Blueberry Hill, Butterscotch On the Rocks, Big Apple and Chocolate Box Brownie varieties. The firm hopes they will fill the cookie ...

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    Marshfield focuses on impulse buys

    5 June 2009

    Wiltshire-based Marshfield Bakery launched its new mini display box at the recent Caffè Culture show.Containing 50 individually wrapped mini bars, the box contains a mix of 12 different varieties, including Caramel Shortbread and Traditional Flapjack through to Honeycomb Tiffin and Strawberry Shortbread."Cafés and shops could see the benefit of placing ...

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    McCambridge sells off ’non-core’ businesses

    5 June 2009

    McCambridge has sold off five bakeries in its ’niche’ division to D&G Food Group - a company newly created by former Roberts Bakery chairman Graham March.The five bakeries, which were acquired when Irish bakery group McCambridge bought cake firm Inter Link from administration in 2007, make breads, cakes, pies ...

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    Burning a hole in your pocket?

    5 June 2009

    Consultants with specialist knowledge of the sector say that bakery businesses should no longer expect to see year-on-year reductions in insurance premiums, even where they take steps to reduce risks.According to risk consultancy Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), a spate of high-profile, high-cost fires in the sector over recent years has ...

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    Trend predictor: bread with sprouts

    5 June 2009

    By bread with sprouts I don’t mean the vegetable variety, but whole sprouted grains of wheat. Sprouted grain breads have become a permanent category in the American bakery sector and some strong brands have been built around the concept. The products have a particular appeal to health-conscious consumers and there ...

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    New brand brings taste of Switzerland to the UK

    5 June 2009

    Products from newly launched brand Swiss Bakery could hit the shelves before the summer is out, following presentations and a successful stand at Caffè Culture, said marketing and sales director Gerry O’Reilly.Parent company Private & Brand, based in Belfast, supplies retail and foodservice markets in the UK and Ireland. Realising ...

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    Consumer watch Food-to-go boundaries blur

    5 June 2009

    The blurring between foodservice and traditional retail continues unabated. Forty-nine per cent of consumers who buy food- or drink-to-go now choose a convenience store, the latest IGD research reveals. Most of these purchases are chilled or ambient, rather than hot/warm, but it shows you how far the convenience industry ...

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    BSB to tackle topical bakery issues at conference

    5 June 2009

    The British Society of Baking’s (BSB) conference will take place on Tuesday 16 June at the Ardencote Manor Hotel, Claverdon, Warwick.Speakers include Chris Beaney, president of the National Association of Master Bakers; Joanna Bruce, ADM; Matthew May, Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees; and Bob Whitehurst, Cereform. Topics ...

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    Giles Foods to expand sweet bakery plant

    5 June 2009

    Giles Foods plans to strengthen its position in the sweet bakery market by increasing space at its Warminster factory by a third.A new 6,550sq ft unit will be added to the bakery, which produces Danish pastries, croissants, tarts and buns for supermarket ISBs and foodservice distributors, following a £1.5m equipment ...

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    Tesco bakery boss looks to put customers first

    5 June 2009

    Scott Clarke, Tesco category director of bakery, stressed the retailer’s strategy to put the customer first, at the FoB conference. Coming from a background of bakery at RHM, he said his first five months at Tesco had "felt like a lifetime". He commented: "It is an industry ...

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    Continental bakery firm plans rapid development

    5 June 2009

    Continental bakery retail concept Belgique is planning a three-year period of growth, which will take it from eight to 25 outlets by 2012.The Essex-based chain secured the backing of major Belgian flour and frozen bakery supplier La Lorraine Bakery Group, which acquired a 50% stake in the business. Belgique plans ...

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    BakeMark shares love of doughnuts

    5 June 2009

    BakeMark UK is soon to launch a new doughnut product for the foodservice and retail markets. Its Do’Dotz is a single doughnut made up of four connected bite-sized iced sections. They can be marketed as sharing products, and are available in a thaw-and-serve case of 48 doughnuts."We have developed this ...

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    Audience participation

    5 June 2009

    Despite stemming from an Australian concept, BB’s Coffee & Muffins appears British in every sense, and certainly caters for our love of tea and cake. But that’s not all it offers. Producing freshly baked goods on a daily basis and the ability to understand its customers’ needs are just some ...

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    Irwin’s nabs Scottish deal with Asda

    5 June 2009

    Portadown-based Howell House, the cakes and biscuits division of Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has secured a £250,000 deal to export its Howell’s Handmade Jammy Joeys cakes to 47 Asda stores in Scotland.The deal is the first time that Howell House has exported its products and is expected to boost total ...

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    Seal of approval

    5 June 2009

    It’s a sign of our environmentally conscious times that reducing food waste was one of the driving factors behind Honeytop Speciality Foods’ decision to invest in technology for applying resealable closures to a line of own-label tortilla wraps.The Zip-Pak ’press-to-close’ seal means that shoppers can keep their tortilla wraps fresh ...

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    Coffee shop growth to stall, says analyst

    5 June 2009

    Predictions of continued rapid growth in the branded coffee shop sector (see pgs 18-19) is at odds with falling disposable income levels, which will cause the market’s growth to stall, according to one analyst.Speaking at Caffè Culture, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ coffee shop sector specialist Stephen Broome said the growth of about 10%, ...

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    Pie firm ambitious for growth

    5 June 2009

    Family pie firm Chappell’s Fine Foods has revealed ambitious expansion plans following its sale to food industry expert Ian Nicholls.Based in Wigston, Leicestershire, the company was founded by David Chappell in 1972 and supplies butchers, delis and retailers with pies and pasties, including its Forryans Melton Mowbray Pork Pie.Nicholls, ...

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    Spice rack: Allspice

    5 June 2009

    Allspice, also known as Jamaican Pepper, should not be confused with mixed spice. It is a pea-sized, dark brown berry, available whole or ground. As the name suggests, it has a flavour reminiscent of a mixture of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ginger and, therefore, will go with similar dishes and ...

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    Help to set a new skills agenda

    5 June 2009

    Employers have been invited to set the agenda for a new food and drink ’excellence’ qualification.Food and drink sector skills council Improve is setting up a working group of employers, including bakers, to consult on best practice in areas such as lean manufacturing, sustainability and quality. The results will be ...