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Waitrose profits hit by investment and value focus
Waitrose, the supermarket retailer owned by the John Lewis partnership, saw like-for-like sales grow by 4% in the half-year ended 30 July 2011.
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The Bakehouse revamps to become Flour & Bean
Norfolk craft bakery chain The Bakehouse is rebranding its shops as Flour & Bean, with a greater focus on freshly prepared coffee and food, in an effort to attract younger customers. The company has already refurbished four of its 14 shops under the new bakery and coffee shop brand, with ...
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NewsNational Cupcake Week hits the internet
National Cupcake Week is now in full swing after getting off to a bang when it was featured on television and radio.
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Inflation and unemployment figures up
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose again in the second quarter of the year, to a total of 2.51 million, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
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NewsTetley moves into bakery market
Tetley is to branch out into the world of bakery with the launch of Tetley Tea Folk Scones this week.
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High winds crush cars at Bako Northern
Bakery wholesaler Bako Northern bore the brunt of the winds yesterday when a roof collapsed on 15 cars as storms battered parts of the UK.
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ABF: “Earnings will be in line.”
Associated British Foods (ABF) – the parent company of Allied Bakeries and AB Mauri – has reported it is on track to turn out profits in line with earlier predictions.
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Scottish Bakers offers tax relief service to members
An innovative new scheme has seen bakers in Scotland receive £165,000-worth of tax relief for their research & development (R&D) work. Three businesses have benefited from a government initiative thanks to working with Scottish Bakers, including Brownings the Bakers in Kilmarnock and Maclean’s Highland Bakery. Scottish Bakers has teamed up ...
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Speakers line up for BSB
The British Society of Baking’s (BSB) annual autumn conference will play host to a series of talks including: ’50 years of the Chorleywood Bread Process’, by BakeTran director Stan Cauvain; ’High speed mixing machines’, by Steve Philpott of Baker Perkins; and ’Some facts on acrylamide’ by Andrew Curtis, scientific & ...
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High street chains criticised in Irresponsibility Deal report
Companies including Subway, Costa and Samworth Brothers, have been slammed for not signing up to elements of the government’s public health Responsibility Deal in a new report from the Children’s Food Campaign. Subway and Costa were both criticised in the report called The Irresponsibility Deal for not signing up to ...
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Make sure you don’t miss fair day
Don’t forget to register to attend Bakers’ Fair Autumn. The free-to-attend event will take place at Bolton Arena on Sunday 2 October.
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Organic retailers make plans for store offensive
After suffering several years of sales decline, the organic bakery sector received some much-needed good news last month after upmarket food retailers Daylesford Organic and Planet Organic revealed plans to open dozens of new stores. Daylesford CEO Jamie Mitchell said he plans to launch a chain of six to 10 ...
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Industry hits back at CASH bread salt claims
Bakers have rubbished claims made in a new report by Consensus Action on Salt (CASH) that one in four bread loaves contain as much salt per slice as a packet of crisps. Fresh breads were highlighted as the worst offenders in the research, with Paul (UK), Le Pain Quotidien, Greggs ...
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Town Mill Bakery looks to the future
Despite the closure of its Tudor Arcade shop this week, Town Mill Bakery is looking to the future with the opening of a new shop in Plymouth in October and plans for additional bakeries.
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NewsWelsh bar firm to extend contract manufacturing
Denbighshire bakery bar manufacturer Wholebake Ltd plans to invest in the contract manufacturing side of its business following a management buy-out of the firm earlier this summer.
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Robert Ditty takes top title at this year’s BIA
Robert Ditty walked off with the accolade of Baker of the Year at the 24th Baking Industry Awards this week, in the Vandemoortele-sponsored category.This year’s Brazilian carnival- themed event, at Park Lane Hilton, was hosted by well-known TV presenter Richard Madeley. In his after-dinner speech he said that, of all ...
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UK wholesale dairy prices
Unsalted butter, skimmed milk powder (SMP) and bulk cream all dipped in price from July to August, but are still up on this time last year, according to the latest report by DairyCo Datum price update.The wholesale price of unsalted butter fell £100 per tonne (p/t) to £3,500 (2010: £3,300 ...
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Outlook good for quality of wheat harvest
The quality of this year’s wheat harvest is likely to be better than last year, according to the HGCA’s Provisional Cereals Quality Survey.
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Report
Nine out of 10 consumers expect food prices to rise in the year ahead and 29% intend to swap to discounters, new research has revealed.The IGD ShopperTrack, commissioned recently by the research group, also found that 16% intend to use more frozen food specialists.The news that more people intend to ...
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PaulCatterallBakery technology manager, Campden BRIAs we all know, this year sees the 50th anniversary of the Chorleywood Bread Process, and this has again opened the debate within the industry about what is the best method of bread-making. Some say it is long fermentation, traditional methods, and others say no-time dough ...