All British Baker articles in June 2010 – Page 3
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My Career
Robert Done, head of sales & marketing UK, Tromp Bakery EquipmentWhat is your current job and responsibilities?I look after sales in the UK and Ireland from my office in Shrewsbury and travel around the country four days a week, visiting customers and developing new business basically with the aim ...
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Don your creative caps for cupcake challenge
Think you’re the cupcake king or queen? Now’s your chance to let your cakes shine, as British Baker launches its search for Britain’s Best Cupcake Baker 2010.The contest is part of National Cupcake Week, running from 13-19 September, which celebrates this rapidly growing sector, and welcomes entries from cake specialists, ...
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CHEEKY CAKE FOR CHEEKY GIRLS
Cake of the week goes to Gardners Bakery in Kingsthorpe, who baked this cheeky number for ITV’s Loose Women in celebration of National Craft Bakers’ Week. And no, the miserable sods didn’t mention it on air. Gardners had more success with BBC Radio Northampton’s Bernie Keith, who raved about his ...
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Traditionals with a twist Citrus tarts by Fiona Burrell
Lemon tarts have become very popular and are based on the classic French recipe Tarte au Citron, which tastes so fresh and tangy that it is impossible to imagine the calories hidden inside.The pastry is Pâte Sucrée and the filling a mixture of eggs, sugar, double cream and, of course, ...
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Warburtons extends deal for British wheat supply
Warburtons has announced a long-term extension to its UK milling wheat contract with farmer-owned business Open-field, as it continues to maintain its support of British wheat.The extension of the contract, now in its 12th year, will see the supply agreement reach its 18th year, and will be worth an additional ...
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Give us our healthy daily bread
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business agency, specialising in the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectors Summer is finally here, and even though the sun may not be shining, your customers’ minds are totally focused on that all-important summer holiday. Top of mind is how they ...
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Brand clinic: What’s in a name?
Don Williams, CEO of brand and design consultancy Pi Global discusses the intricacies of brand naming and the importance of getting it rightLegend has it that, in the early 1940s, a bunch of DuPont executives and a gaggle of ’ponytails’ of course they didn’t have ponytails in those days...think ...
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Excel boosts label offer
Excel Labels is offering customers 18 free rolls of labels for every 100 rolls purchased, until the end of June, to mark its 18th birthday. All its labels are guaranteed to be compatible with your weighing equipment, whatever machine you have, whether it be Avery, Brecknell, CAS, Delford, or Toledo. ...
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Mono on song with Bluebird machinery
Mono Equipment has purchased the exclusive rights to manu-facture Bluebird Packaging Machines’ product range, after the firm went into liquidation in April.Bakery and foodservice equipment supplier Mono said it had sold Bluebird equipment for many years, and the brand fitted perfectly into its own portfolio. Bluebird makes automatic wrapping machines ...
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BB Open Letter
Translating sustainabilityWith regard to the 4 June issue, page 18, and the letter from Tony Fuller of Diamond T in response to Interbake’s editorial information on sustainability, there is a differential between economy and sustainability. In the article, it was quoted that wood pellet energy is 66% lower than natural ...
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Local sandwich bars “unsustainable”
Independent sandwich bars and cafes finding it hard to put sustainability on the menu, faced with increasing pressures that prevent them from offering either healthy or sustainable products, states a new report.
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Raising the bar
I can now declare Sainsbury’s Bakery College officially open, said regional MD Anthony Hemmerdinger or words to that effect, as three bakery apprentices held up the red ribbon and bread chain, cut on 26 May.Hemmerdinger told those gathered for the opening that bakery was a hugely important category for Sainsbury’s, ...
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Union to ballot staff at Maple Leaf for strike
Staff at the Maple Leaf bakery plant in Walsall are to be balloted on industrial action, following a breakdown in negotiations over pay rates.John Higgins, regional officer of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, said that balloting would begin on 22 June. He told British Baker: "Our members have ...
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Renshaw benefits from home baking boom
Renshaw looks set to grow by over a quarter as the bakery ingredients supplier reported spring sales matching those of the Christmas peak."Our ambition is to grow the business to £50m of revenue," said commercial director Sarah Summers. "2009 was a very busy year for Renshaw. We grew revenue to ...
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Retail bakery teams revised
Sainsbury’s and Asda have welcomed several new faces to their bakery teams in recent weeks.Asda has an almost entirely new team in place in its bakery department. Director Ian Martin joined in spring, and Laura Sayer has joined as in-store bread buyer, Rosalind Kennerley as in-store cake buyer, Holly Mobley ...
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Waitrose revamp merges bakery with food-to-go
Waitrose has restructured all of its buying teams, with food-to-go and bakery merged under one head of department.The shake-up, which took place last week, will allow Waitrose to achieve its ambition of doubling the size of its business, British Baker was told. The new framework is headed by Mark Williamson, ...
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Welsh bakery merges units
Clark’s Pies is targeting business growth by merging its two Cardiff bakeries.The family-owned company plans to move staff and production from the Victoria Park bakery to its other bakery in Grangetown which will be extended and refitted later this summer.Grandson of founder Mary Clark, Dennis Dutch, said it ...
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Businesses see positive reaction to Bakers’ Week
Patrick McGuigan The media spotlight fell on craft bakers and the role they play in the community last week, with National Craft Bakers’ Week generating a host of positive newspaper stories and features on TV and radio.
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Bakeries hope for a buyer as D&G ’runs out of time’
Almost 60 jobs have been lost after D&G Food Group called in administrators and put its four bakery companies up for sale.West of England Bakeries in Plymouth shut its doors after 25 years, making 50 of its staff redundant, while another six jobs were lost when D&G’s head office closed. ...
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Appointments
Rory BowmanBowmansThe UK’s largest independent flour miller and coatings business Bowmans has appointed Rory Bowman to the role of chief executive.Rory Bowman has headed Bowman Ingredients, the company’s coating divison, for the past 20 years. He replaces his brother Guy Bowman, who has retired after 45 years with the firm, ...