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Businesses see positive reaction to Bakers’ Week
Patrick McGuigan The media spotlight fell on craft bakers and the role they play in the community last week, with National Craft Bakers’ Week generating a host of positive newspaper stories and features on TV and radio.
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Retail bakery teams revised
Sainsbury’s and Asda have welcomed several new faces to their bakery teams in recent weeks.Asda has an almost entirely new team in place in its bakery department. Director Ian Martin joined in spring, and Laura Sayer has joined as in-store bread buyer, Rosalind Kennerley as in-store cake buyer, Holly Mobley ...
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Waitrose revamp merges bakery with food-to-go
Waitrose has restructured all of its buying teams, with food-to-go and bakery merged under one head of department.The shake-up, which took place last week, will allow Waitrose to achieve its ambition of doubling the size of its business, British Baker was told. The new framework is headed by Mark Williamson, ...
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Welsh bakery merges units
Clark’s Pies is targeting business growth by merging its two Cardiff bakeries.The family-owned company plans to move staff and production from the Victoria Park bakery to its other bakery in Grangetown which will be extended and refitted later this summer.Grandson of founder Mary Clark, Dennis Dutch, said it ...
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Renshaw benefits from home baking boom
Renshaw looks set to grow by over a quarter as the bakery ingredients supplier reported spring sales matching those of the Christmas peak."Our ambition is to grow the business to £50m of revenue," said commercial director Sarah Summers. "2009 was a very busy year for Renshaw. We grew revenue to ...
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Union to ballot staff at Maple Leaf for strike
Staff at the Maple Leaf bakery plant in Walsall are to be balloted on industrial action, following a breakdown in negotiations over pay rates.John Higgins, regional officer of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, said that balloting would begin on 22 June. He told British Baker: "Our members have ...
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Local sandwich bars “unsustainable”
Independent sandwich bars and cafes finding it hard to put sustainability on the menu, faced with increasing pressures that prevent them from offering either healthy or sustainable products, states a new report.
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Mono on song with Bluebird machinery
Mono Equipment has purchased the exclusive rights to manu-facture Bluebird Packaging Machines’ product range, after the firm went into liquidation in April.Bakery and foodservice equipment supplier Mono said it had sold Bluebird equipment for many years, and the brand fitted perfectly into its own portfolio. Bluebird makes automatic wrapping machines ...
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Warburtons extends deal for British wheat supply
Warburtons has announced a long-term extension to its UK milling wheat contract with farmer-owned business Open-field, as it continues to maintain its support of British wheat.The extension of the contract, now in its 12th year, will see the supply agreement reach its 18th year, and will be worth an additional ...
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Don your creative caps for cupcake challenge
Think you’re the cupcake king or queen? Now’s your chance to let your cakes shine, as British Baker launches its search for Britain’s Best Cupcake Baker 2010.The contest is part of National Cupcake Week, running from 13-19 September, which celebrates this rapidly growing sector, and welcomes entries from cake specialists, ...
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National Cupcake-off kicks off!
The hunt is officially on to find Britain’s Best Cupcake Baker 2010. Cake specialists, craft and in-store bakeries across the UK are invited to enter the competition to find the nation’s most outstanding cupcake baker.
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Scores on the Doors ratings welcomed
Consumers would welcome a national food hygiene rating scheme for cafés, restaurants, shops and bars, reports the Food Standards Agency (FSA).It has published the results of independent consumer research into how to ensure the national scheme known as ’Scores on the Doors’ is easy to understand and use. ...
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Edible nut pricing
Almonds: There has been a more favourable May almond estimate of 700,000mt+, over 100,000mt better than was previously estimated after the bloom. For now at least and up to the next estimate, the trend is for lower pricing, but this would be immediately reversed by a more negative new crop ...
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Alex WaughDirector general, NabimFrom September 2011, food technology will become a compulsory part of the curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds. Flour millers have already begun a programme to promote the inclusion of flour-based cooking activities in the classroom and we are working with others to implement the Teach Food Technology ...
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Rich to open new factory for toppings
Rich Products has announced it is to spend over £1m on a new toppings and icings factory in the UK, marking a "significant investment" for the firm.Rich UK has just had plans approved for the new site, which will produce toppings and icings for the UK and Europe, said marketing ...
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Maher responds to Mary Queen of Shops portrayal
It has to be one of the most talked-about television shows on a bakery in history. The first episode of the new series of Mary Queen of Shops, screened on 7 June, saw retail guru Mary Portas come head-to-head with Maher & Sons bakery owner Angela Maher in a battle ...
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Subway snaps up top sandwich slot
Subway has taken the number one spot for UK sandwich sales, according to a report published by the British Sandwich Association (BSA).Subway’s sales accounted for 60% of the total sandwich bar market, according to the BSA, selling almost £70,000 more than its closest rival, Tesco.The report, containing data from Kantar, ...
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By number rulingThe European Parliament was due (16 June) to vote on the inclusion of a provision in the Food Information Regulation (FIR) directive, which, under the existing EU directive, allowed member states to sell some wrapped products by number, such as six-pack rolls. See bakeryinfo.co.uk for update.Delice’s Irish moveCuisine ...
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Unifine celebratesUnifine Food & Bake Ingredients will be celebrating its 10th birthday on 19 June. To celebrate, the firm will be sending a box of Belgian chocolates to customers ordering products this month. It will also be offering special deals including 11kg of SuCreme Nova Plus for the price of ...
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Turner prizedMich Turner, founder and director of London’s Little Venice Cake Company, has been honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, in recognition of her achievement and service to the catering industry. "There are very few occasions in your life when you are so genuinely overwhelmingly surprised. ...