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Breakfast on the run boosts Greggs’ takings
Catering to Brits breakfasting on the run has helped push Greggs’ profits up by nearly 8% in the last year.
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Timmy’s lands upmarket pie deal
At less than a year old, pie business Timmy’s Pies is celebrating a deal to supply its six-strong range to top-end department store Harvey Nichols. Timmy’s Pies began life on the Duke of York market, London, in April last year, with founder Timmy Wilkes making the decision to upscale and ...
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Allied develops 100% recycled packaging
Allied Bakeries has announced it will be introducing 100% recycled packaging on its Kingsmill Little Big Loaf and Crusts Away ranges.
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NewsPop-up bakery plans for Japan tsunami appeal
The Mad Artists Tea Party is to host a sushi-themed pop up cake shop - Cakes for Japan - to raise funds for the Red Cross, following the devastation caused by the recent tsunami.
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Sheffield bakery invites supermarket into site
It’s not often that a bakery wants a supermarket to build on their land, but this is exactly what Fletchers Group of Bakeries is hoping for.
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Bakery manufacturers commit to Responsibility Deal
A whole host of bakery manufacturers have signed up to the first phase of the Department of Health’s Public Heath Responsibility Deal, launched today.
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Pork Farms rebrands to engage with consumers
Pork Farms has rebranded its entire product range in an effort to communicate the company’s history and encourage consumers to have an "emotional engagement" with the brand. The £1m makeover coincides with Pork Farms’ 80th anniversary and will see new products launched, including snack slices, mini pork pies and Scotch ...
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Taylors escapes the axe for a second time
Lancashire-based firm Taylors the Bakers has been saved from administration for the second time in less than a year, after administrators RSM Tenon sold the firm back to the bakery’s existing management in a pre-pack deal. The Ashton-under-Lyne firm went into administration on 8 February 2011, with the new company ...
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Market warned of further volatility in bread wheat
The baking industry should prepare for further volatility in the bread wheat market in 2011 as tight global maize stocks continue to prop up prices and low domestic wheat stocks leave the UK exposed to supply problems. At a recent Home Grown Cereals Authority and nabim Milling Wheat Conference, senior ...
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Welsh True Taste awards open for entry
The 10th annual Wales the True Taste Food and Drink Awards will be held in North Wales for the first time, with the categories now open to enter.
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NewsStarbucks launches mini bakery treats
Starbucks has launched a Petites range of bakery products this spring.
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New Britain plans fully segregated palm oil plant
Pressure on bakers to use sustainable palm oil is set to mount after New Britain Oils announced plans to open a UK processing facility producing bakery fats made with fully segregated, certified palm oil.
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Ginsters broaches NPD with dough-based snack
Ginsters has taken a step away from its traditional pastry-based snacks with its latest offering Cornish Bara, which is made with a soft bread dough outer.
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’Dragons’ Den’ pitch at BSB conference
Tameside College bakery students will be carry out product demonstrations as well as pitching ideas in a bakery-themed Dragons’ Den at the British Society of Baking spring conference, to be held from 11-12 April. The conference takes place at the college in Ashton-under-Lyne. As well as talks by Tameside bakery ...
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Premier set to close site in Hampshire
Premier Foods is to close its Hovis distribution centre in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, due to a reduction in volumes of supermarket own-brand bread. The company has entered into consultation with staff and their representatives at the site, which employs around 60 people. A spokesman for Premier told British Baker that ...
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EU envisages possible easing of sugar supply
Proposed measures by the EU Sugar Management Committee look set to ease some of the tension around sugar supply in Europe, as it gears up to vote in Brussels.Proposals announced earlier in the year to release up to 500,000 tonnes of out-of-quota sugar on to the domestic market have already ...
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Gb Plange holds out a helping hand
Ingredients firm Gb Plange is helping bakers tackle business challenges such as rising costs and reducing additives by hosting a series of development days. The next FOC Energie Development Day will focus on how to manage bread quality and costs in an inflationary market, delivered by technical experts at Gb ...
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Seed pricing
Pine nuts: Prices have remained stable since the last report, largely due to inactivity. Although Pakistani prices are still substantially higher than those from China, the latter’s improved supply this season, with additional quantities sourced once more from over the border in Russia, has restored some sense of pricing perspective ...
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Reporting in The trend for treats
Nick HarrisManaging director, BFP WholesaleOver the past few weeks, economic sentiment expressed in the media would suggest we are all becoming home-birds terrified to step outside in case we should be tempted to spend some money.Is this really true for the bakery sector? Current market research suggests that an ...