All British Baker articles in June 2011 – Page 5
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Pastry power
Ginsters’ recent TV advertising campaign for its savouries featured the ’Man Plea’ a man clutching a Ginsters’ pasty and begging his "sweetheart" to serve it for dinner. His argument was that the product is made with prime ingredients, including "vegetables", and that he should no longer have to keep ...
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Mouthing off
"We weren’t using our food display cabinets so I tried putting one or two cakes in there and when I saw the response I thought, ’There’s a market here’. All the cakes are made here. It’s got so popular now that people come in just for the cakes and don’t ...
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Herza opts for micro-chocs
German chocolate producer Herza Schokolade has introduced micro-size chocolate pieces to its product portfolio.The firm said that, in Germany and across Europe, the per capita consumption of chocolate is 8-9kg a year. The firm is now offering its specialities in micro-sizes, which sales director Carsten Braumann said can help keep ...
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Functional skills
Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI), established in 2002, is part of the Limagrain Group, an international farmer-owned co-operative based in France’s Auvergne region. It provides functional solutions around 100 different products for five different markets: bakery, snacks, convenience foods, breakfast cereals and bioplastics. For bakery, it produces functional flours, ...
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FSA helps out on gluten-free
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a fact sheet to help caterers understand when they can label food ’gluten- free’ in advance of the change to labelling rules next January.New EU regulations coming into force from 1 January 2012, on foodstuffs specifically produced for people intolerant to gluten, will ...
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New flavours join gourmet popcorn line
Gourmet popcorn maker Joe and Seph’s has added savoury flavours to its snack portfolio for the first time. Available in 90g bags, the range now includes: goat’s cheese and black pepper; mature Irish cheddar; and cheddar, sweet topping and savoury seasoning.The popcorn is air-popped and made with mushroom kernels. A ...
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EU takes more steps to ease sugar supplies
Two measures to ensure the fluidity of the EU sugar market, proposed by the European Commission, have been voted on by Member States.
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A dream residence
Construction began a week last Friday on one house that is not going to win any prizes for using sustainable building materials. Nope, this real life "edible gingerbread house featuring meringue clouds, a cupcake lawn, and a pond filled with sweets" is not built to last, so get along to ...
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Door opens to supply Waitrose in the south west
Small and medium-sized businesses looking for a supply route into Waitrose could benefit from a new distribution centre, set up by Hayden’s Bakeries.
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Iconic detection for Fortress
Fortress Technology has devised a new high-performance metal detector, ICON. It features a new touchscreen front panel, which has been designed to be ’future-proof’, as well as having the ability to be easily retrofitted to older models in Fortress’ Phantom series. The firm said the new detector delivers fast accurate ...
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Warm weather continues to put pressure on wheat
Predictions of a warm, dry June mean UK wheat crops will continue to be put under pressure despite Russia lifting its ban on wheat exports.
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No contact? No contest
Smartphones: the 21st century idle fidgeter’s time destroyer of choice. Whether you spend your free minutes tracking commodity prices or, more likely, playing Angry Birds, soon there will be another opportunity to flash your widget and wave it about in public. And this time, it’s all about saving time rather ...
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Creative collaboration
Never has there been such a challenging time for businesses in the bakery manufacturing sector. The landscape has been transformed significantly over the past decade or more by a whole range of interconnected factors: global economic trends, particularly energy and transportation costs; the growth of giant supermarkets, but also of ...
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Clocking up a difference
Here’s one for the clock-watchers out there: a rare automaton mahogany longcase (grandfather) clock has come up for sale, which features a moving figure carrying a sack of flour or wheat. The bakery scene in the arch is engraved with ’The Large Bread Warehouse’. The clock was almost certainly specially ...
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Chevler colours wraps
Chevler has introduced a range of coloured tulip muffin wraps, following the recent launch of coloured cupcake cases, in a "convenient pack size" more suitable for the craft baker and smaller-scale producers. The new muffin cases, in red, yellow and orange, with a black variety to launch soon, and a ...
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Unicorn cake depositor
As organiser of National Cupcake Week, BB is always on the internet scanning for quality cupcake merchandise. Instead we found this jaw-droppingly bizarre t-shirt at www.cafepress.co.uk.If that’s where cupcakes come from, we want nothing more to do with them.
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Business start-ups: Ms Cupcake
So do you want to be a baker or run a business? No matter how much you love baking, Ms Cupcake’s Melissa Morgan says you have to let go of the piping bag.When you decide to open your own business, it is usually because you feel you are very good ...
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Jobs to go as Burton’s Moreton plant closes
More than 200 jobs will go at Burton’s Foods’ Moreton plant following the announcement it is to shut down the biscuit site.The firm said it will retain its chocolate refinery at Moreton and the jobs of 60 employees, and plans to put £2.8m of capital investment in the plant. However, ...
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Job cull at pie and pizza firm RF Brookes
South Wigston based pie and pizza manufacturer RF Brookes, part of Premier Foods, has announced it is to shed up to 200 jobs, following the loss of its pie contract with Marks & Spencer (M&S).
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Rank Hovis brings out new craft flour line
Rank Hovis has launched a new range of flours, Rank Hovis Originals. For the past two years, the miller has been working with customers to develop products that best fit the needs of the craft baker. The firm said its bakers have used these grades and baked hundreds of loaves ...