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Free-from becoming mainstream?
Free-from has hit the big time, according to speakers at a recent Food and Drink Innovation Network (FDIN) seminar, held last week.
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Lees posts sales boost, warns on costs
Lees Foods this morning predicted its full year pre-tax profit will be ahead of expectations – despite the rising cost of raw materials.
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Warburtons to launch new digital campaign
Warburtons is to launch a new £2.4m marketing campaign later this month, aimed at driving incremental bakery sales at lunchtime.
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Starbucks eyes acquisitions and new markets
Starbucks, the global coffee chain, will look at acquisition opportunities, introducing healthier options and opening its first stores in India and Vietnam in the next 24 months.
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Aryzta announces sales boost
Speciality bakery company Aryzta has announced a 54% increase in revenues to €2.85bn for the year ended 31 July.
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Shoppers turn to brands
Shoppers are turning to brands – despite the weakened consumer confidence, according to research.
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Finsbury CEO outlines growth
The export of branded cakes has helped Finsbury Food Group to a 12.1% increase in sales in its cake division, as the exchange rate has benefited its Lightbody Europe (LBE) business.
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Kudos invests in agent to reduce sodium content
Raising agent manufacturer and supplier Kudos Blends has invested £750,000 to expand its milling and blending facility. The move will enable the firm to produce its zero-sodium potassium bicarbonate a direct replacement for sodium bicarbonate, which boasts the ability to reduce sodium content by 50%.Dinnie Jordan, director, told British Baker. ...
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NewsUnion calls for maximum temperature in bakeries
Bakeries are under pressure to do more to reduce workplace temperatures after the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) launched a campaign to get a maximum working temperature enshrined in UK legislation. As part of the Cool It! campaign, which is also supported by the TUC, the BFAWU has ...
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Blaa producer urges other bakers to seek PGI status
An Irish baker who is applying for EU protected status for one of his products has urged bakers across the UK and Ireland to follow suit. Dermot Walsh, co-owner of M&D Bakery in Waterford, is part of a group of bakers that have submitted an application for Protected Geographical Indication ...
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Finsbury maintains growth in cake sales
Finsbury Food Group has posted a 12.6% increase in group revenue in its preliminary results for the year to 2 July 2011, aided by the return to growth of its cake division.
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M&S tries out new ISB concept
Sixteen Marks & Spencer (M&S) stores are to benefit from new-style in-store bakeries (ISBs), as part of a £600m plan by chief executive Mark Bolland to revamp its stores, as the retailer aims to “catch up” with its competition.
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EU sugar quota abolition could push prices down
Bakers could benefit from falling sugar prices if the EU’s widely leaked plan to abolish sugar quotas is successful.The EU is expected to announce next month that it proposes to scrap the current system of production quotas and guaranteed minimum prices for sugar far-mers by September 2016. News agency Reuters ...
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Bakery union makes claims against Park Cakes
The Bakers Food and Workers Union (BFAWU) has claimed that Park Cake Bakeries is attempting to bypass new legislation covering agency workers and has asked local MPs for their support.
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NewsArden creates exclusive item for Waitrose
Continental bakery distributor Arden Fine Foods has developed a new Italian brand exclusively for Waitrose, with four new biscuit lines hitting the retailer’s shelves this month. The new Arden & Amici brand, which includes cantuccini, biscotti and soft amaretti biscuits, could be extended to other products, such as panettone and ...
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Welsh bakery goes to MBI
The management team of Berwyn Bakery has formed a new company, The Cake Crew, to purchase the assets of the bakery, saving around 70 jobs, after it was placed into administration earlier this month.Berwyn Bakery, which was the second-largest employer in the town of Bala, Gwynedd in North Wales, had ...
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Schultz: Be bold or be left behind
Those companies that are not bold in the face of the global economic crisis and don’t have the courage to take risks, may be left behind, according to Starbucks chairman, president and chief executive Howard Schultz.
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Kerry to expand via SuCrest buy
The Kerry Group is to expand its sweet ingredients and flavours business in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), with the proposed acquisition of SuCrest.The group has entered into an agreement to buy the German firm, which has production and development facilities in Hochheim, Germany and Vitebsk, Belarus, ...
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NewsScottish firm rebrands as Poundbakehouse
Kelso-based J L Bakery is fighting against the effects of the recession with a rebrand of its retail estate. So far, three of its eight shops Galashiels, Jedburgh and Innerleithen have been rebranded as Poundbakehouse as the firm looks to counteract the 35% drop in sales it has suffered over ...
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Warning over Olympic logo
Bakers who use the Olympic ‘five rings’ or 2012 logos on products without permission risk being taken to court.