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New roles at Brace’s bakery
Welsh bakery firm Brace’s has created 26 additional jobs after securing new business.
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Blaze at Manchester bread factory
A Warburtons factory caught on fire last Thursday night, which took almost four hours to extinguish.
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Cream puff specialist reveals ambitious plans
A new business to the UK specialising in cream puffs has opened in central London and harbours ambitions to open 10 stores within three years.Chewy Junior, a 600sq ft outlet in Charing Cross, specialises in 18 variants of cream puff that sell for £1.90 for deluxe and £1.60 for the ...
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Asda launches new iPhone app
Supermarket retailer Asda has developed a new transactional mobile phone app, allowing customers to buy groceries online and price check the cost of their shopping using their iPhones.
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Scottish baker passes away
Former president of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers (now Scottish Bakers) Joe McDonald passed away on 7 November, aged 78. McDonald was born in Glasgow and joined the bakery trade at the age of 15, spending a total of 63 years in the industry. He started his own ...
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Greggs develops initiative for local bakery format
Greggs is to launch a new format store, its take on a local baker, British Baker can reveal. The development will be the retailer’s second new concept store in as many months and will become the third store format for Greggs, concentrating on the firm’s bakery heritage. The move ...
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Selfridges opens food hall doors to St John Bakery
St John Bakery officially opened a new bakery in Selfridges Food Hall in London this week (17 November). It will offer the same range of products that can be found in the company’s St John Restaurants, including white and brown sourdough loaves, a raisin loaf, mini Eccles cakes and a ...
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Correction: Greggs
In the 18 November issue of British Baker there is an error in our feature on Greggs’ chief executive Ken McMeikan. The last line of the story should read, “greater emphasis on the bakery feel rather than the food-to-go or the coffee shop.” British Baker apologises for this mistake.
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Irwin’s scoops Sainsbury’s deal
Irwin’s Bakery in Portadown has announced a deal to supply Sainsbury’s in Northern Ireland with its pancakes and soda farls, as part of the retailer’s new core range of ’By Sainsbury’s’ own-label products.The contract, worth over £250,000 a year to the Northern Irish bakery, will see its products sold in ...
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High Street faces two years of pain
The figures might show an increase in retail sales - but experts have predicted another two years of misery on the High Street.
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Plum pudding firm opens third store
A traditional North Yorkshire food, wine and hamper company is opening the doors of its third store in time for the Christmas season.Lewis & Cooper’s new food hall outlet, based in Harrogate, will sell the business’ wide selection of food and drink products, including its handmade multi-award-winning plum puddings, sweet ...
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Pukka Pies takes on new promotions
Pukka Pies has launched two new initiatives to entice both new and loyal customers.The company, based in Leicestershire, will be giving away 20 million points in a new loyalty scheme, which will require customers to input a unique code found on product packaging into its website. Customers can then redeem ...
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NewsMuntons scoops sustainability award
A UK malt manufacturer has been given the sustainable stamp of approval at The Manufacturer of the Year Awards.
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Youth unemployment reaches record-high
The number of jobless 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK has risen above the million mark, with overall unemployment rising by 129,000 in the three-month period to September.
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NewsGreggs staff back Children in Need
Thrill-seeking Greggs staff, young and old, have raised thousands of pounds for this year’s BBC Children in Need.
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Bakery benefits from Santander link
A north-west England bakery has been featured in a business-focused video for Santander Corporate Banking.
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NewsEnterprise Foods scoops double win
Enterprise Foods has celebrated a double award win at this year’s Co-operative Supplier Awards ceremony in Manchester.
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NewsWhich? rates retailers’ mince pies
Supermarket own-brand mince pies have beaten off competition from luxury retail outlets, according to a new report by Which?.
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CPI inflation down to 5%
A decrease in food prices pushed the UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate down to 5% last month.