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Fletchers plans contingent on Sainsbury’s
Plans to modernise Fletchers’ Claywheels Lane bakery have been approved by Sheffield City Council.
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Anchor Butter celebrates its 125th
Anchor Butter, from Arla Foods, is celebrating its 125th birthday with a massive £4m spend, starting with a TV campaign that is on air for four weeks from the end of May through to June.
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Scottish firms honoured at national food awards
Borders Biscuits and Macphie of Glenbervie were both honoured in the 2011 Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards, hosted last night.
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Get your BIA entries in today!
The late entry deadline for the Baking Industry Awards is today (Friday 27 May), so make sure you get your forms in.
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Greencore announces value growth for sandwiches
Greencore has grown its sandwich sales ahead of the market as its Convenience Foods division achieved ‘constant currency’ sales growth of 4.3% in the half year to 25 March 2011.
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Lees Foods sees pre-tax profit up
Lees Foods has broken through the £1m pre-tax profit barrier for the first time, thanks to production efficiencies and increased business in the foodservice sector.
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Bakery waste turned into alternative fuel source
Fats and oils from waste pies, sausages rolls and pastries are being extracted to make bio-diesel in a project that is expected to be rolled out across the UK.
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Hundreds of bakery jobs to go at Burton’s Foods
More than 200 jobs will go at Burton’s Foods’ Moreton site following the announcement it is to shut down the biscuit site.
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Revamped exhibition for the baking industry
British Baker’s publisher William Reed Business Media has announced that Bakery@Foodex is to be a new element of its well-established biennial Foodex show.
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One more week for BIA entries
Late entries for this year’s Baking Industry Awards are being allowed till the end of this week, so make sure you get them all in by Friday 27 May.
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Farmhouse Biscuits to grow production facility
Lancashire-based firm Farmhouse Biscuits plans to extend production with a new 29,000sq ft unit at the site of a former mill as sales of its gluten-free biscuits continue to grow.
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Food Partners strikes Urban Eat deal
Sandwich manufacturer and distributor Food Partners has teamed up with wholesaler Palmer and Harvey in a deal that will see Food Partners’ Urban Eat range of sandwiches, snacks and salads offered to around 8,000 independent convenience stores in the UK.
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FoB chairman addresses baking industry issues
"We are in a highly competitive business, where long-term volume and value growth is a challenge," said Federation of Bakers (FoB) chairman Mark Fairweather at the organisation’s annual lunch on 11 May. Fairweather, CEO of Allied Bakeries, spoke of the inflationary pressures fuelled by the rising price of commodities ...
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Allied Bakeries refutes supply claim
Allied Bakeries has rejected claims that supplies of Kingsmill bread will be affected in the West Midlands region, after distribution and transport workers at its West Bromwich site voted in favour of industrial action.
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Greggs scoops top British Sandwich Industry Award
Both large and small sandwich producers were honoured at the British Sandwich Industry Awards last Thursday (19 May), with Greggs taking home the top gong.
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S M Bayne takes on Fords shops
Fife-based bakery S M Bayne has added five shops to its estate, moving it into the top 30 in the BB75 table of bakery retailers, by store number.
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Firkins closes bakery but keeps shops
Firkins Bakery has closed its production bakery in Blacklake, West Bromwich, with more than 40 workers made redundant, but its 33 shops will stay open. Newbridge Bakery (Produc-tions), which owns the firm’s bakery, has been placed into liquidation. Firkins director Ian Bolderston said: "Unfortunately due to rising commodity and energy ...
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EU food labelling plans could kill off “Belgian chocolate”
It has added a premium cachet to products for decades, but producers of goods labelled as using ‘Belgian chocolate’ could be dealt a blow by proposed EU country-of-origin labelling (COOL) regulations.
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Risk Capital takes share in London bread firm
Private equity firm Risk Capital Partners has acquired "a large stake" in North London artisan bakery Bread Ltd, and has announced plans for the future growth of its wholesale business The Bread Factory, and Gail’s bakery and café estate.
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Chocolate label concern
It has added a premium cachet to bakery products for decades, but the term ’Belgian chocolate’ could be compromised by proposed EU country-of-origin labelling (COOL) regulations. Last month, a European Parliament Environment Committee voted to extend COOL to cover the ingredients of specified origin chocolate, such as Swiss and Belgian, ...