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Coffee chain goes to work on food offering
Coffee Republic is revamping its food range as it rolls out a modern lighter interior design across its shops. The company, which has 130 stores in the UK, is trialling new breakfast and sandwich lines as it looks to bring the quality of its food range in line with its ...
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New US guidelines push higher whole grain consumption
Upping consumers’ intake of whole grains is a key feature of the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, jointly published by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
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Allied Bakeries launches wildlife conservation promotion
Allied Bakeries has announced a new partnership with Conservation Grade, a nature-friendly farming scheme.
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NewsFosters issues challenge to would-be apprentices
Aspiring bakers will get to compete in an Apprentice-style contest for the chance to bag paid training with Fosters Bakery in Barnsley. The challenge, dubbed ’The Great Apprenticeship Bake-Off’, will invite a shortlist of candidates to its factory for an induction to bakery and training on 11 February. The day ...
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United Biscuits hitting zero-waste targets
United Biscuits (UB) has announced that four of its 14 UK sites have hit its zero-waste-to-landfill target.
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Euphorium reveals growth strategy
North London-based Euphorium Bakery has revealed ambitious expansion plans, both nationwide and internationally. Operations director Andrew Green told British Baker that although the firm remains an artisan bakery in its production methods and thinking, he concedes that it has become a chain, and the business has plans to expand further. ...
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Rising costs fail to push up UK bread prices in 2010
Despite rocketing input costs in the second half of last year, the retail price of a loaf of bread in the UK actually fell in 2010 compared to 2009, according to new data from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The research on world bread prices, which is part of the ...
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Real Good Food reports healthy 2010 profits
Strong pre-Christmas sales negated the effects of severe winter weather on the Real Good Food Company’s profits to 31 December 2010.
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Real bread option urged
Community supported bakeries could provide a solution to shortages of ’real’ bread across large swathes of the country, according to the Real Bread Campaign. The campaign, which promotes bread made using slow fermentation times and without additives, has published a 140-page handbook, called Knead to Know The Real Bread ...
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White bread sales dip as healthy lines find favour
White bread sales dipped last year as growing numbers of shoppers embraced brown and healthy loaves.
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Question mark over Burton’s site
Council and union bosses hope to convince Burton’s Foods to keep its Moreton factory open. A planned meeting this week with the biscuit manufacturer aims to challenge Burton’s decision to close the Wirral site, with the loss of 342 jobs. The factory which makes Cadbury’s chocolate biscuits under licence, ...
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NewsRoyal visit for Artisan School of Food
The Artisan School of Food had a visit from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, who were given a tour around the facilities, and unveiled a plaque to commemorate their visit this week.
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NewsBakery retailers see a rise in outlet openings
The UK’s biggest bakery retailers are defying the tough economic conditions with the overall number of new outlets opened by the leading 75 companies (by store numbers) up 6.9% in the past year.
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Global bakery news
According to foodnavigator.com the German bakery market is likely to see further consolidation as the dominance of small bakeries are unsustainable in the long-term, claimed the new director of the bakery ingredients division of Arla Foods, Søren Krarup. She said the time was ripe for larger companies domestic and ...
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Sainsbury’s new concept takes on takeaway market
Pret A Manger and EAT are facing the prospect of a powerful new competitor on the high street after Sainsbury’s launched a standalone takeaway food shop called Fresh Kitchen. The concept store on Fleet Street, London, which opened on 13 January, sells a range of sandwiches, pastries, wraps, soups, curries, ...
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Reporting in Is the industry making the most of the popularity wave?
In a previous Reporting In column I highlighted the importance for the baking industry of creating ’Brand Baker’. In the piece I aired the view that the industry needed to raise its profile and, in some way, make it stand out from the multitude of careers available, so that the ...
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The food industry needs to change more radically in the coming decades than ever before, if it is to address the unprecedented challenges that lie ahead, warns a new government report.The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability said relatively little new land for agriculture means ...
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In Short
Gluten-free prioritiesGluten-free consumers are more concerned with quality and trust than pricing, according to new research by Dietary Specials (DS-gluten free). It also believes availability and quality of gluten- and wheat-free foods has improved dramatically in recent years. Tesco has the most regular gluten- and wheat-free shoppers, with 45% of ...