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London bakery set for showdown with Mary Queen of Shops
Maher & Sons Bakery is to feature in the new series of Mary Queen of Shops, to be broadcast from 7 June on BBC2.
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Pre-tax profit rockets at Roberts Bakery
Roberts Bakery has announced a pre-tax profit increase of 37% to £6.92m as it filed its accounts for the year to 29 August 2009.
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Northern plans Goodfella’s pizza relaunch
Pre-tax profit may be down, but Northern Foods has said it is investing for growth, with the planned relaunch of its Goodfella’s pizza brand this year.
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Bakers benefit from point-of-sale website
Craft bakers are using an innovative website as a low-cost way to help advertise their business.
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Square Pie announces World Cup pie-off
Square Pie has announced that its Pie World Cup is to return to coincide with the Football World Cup this summer.
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Lees Foods sees healthy profit rise
Lees Foods has seen its year-on-year pre-tax profit increase more than twofold from £379k in 2008 to £843k in 2009.
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Strong sandwich sales aid Greencore’s profits
Strong sandwich sales and consumer demand for meal deals has helped Greencore to up its operating profit by 31.8%, to €25.9m for the half year ended 26 March, 2010.
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NewsTasties lands Welsh Tesco deal
Flintshire firm Tasties has landed a deal to supply Tesco’s 13 stores in North Wales with a new range of sandwiches.
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Stephen Ort passes away
Stephen Ort, previously a regular contributor to British Baker, died recently after a long illness.
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Manchester firm makes £4m bakery investment
Manchester-based GH Sheldon plans to boost sales with the supermarkets and expand into other channels after investing nearly £4m in a second bakery.The family-run firm, which supplies oven-bottom muffins, hot cross buns, balm cakes and batons to the major multiples, has doubled capacity by buying and refurbishing a building opposite ...
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Waitrose adds to sweet lines
West Sussex firm Prosperity Brownies has started supplying nine Waitrose stores in Sussex with its brownies and flapjacks this month.Launched in stores on 17 May were two brownie lines original and dark chocolate and raspberry and two lines of its recently developed flapjack range Prosperity Jacks, in dark ...
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Irish ayes for M&S
Co Londonderry-based artisan bakery Genesis Crafty has launched a new Irish Bakery range in Marks & Spencer, after successfully gaining supplier accreditation by the store.The range is now available in 38 stores throughout Ireland and features four-packs of Iced Tops (iced Madeira buns), Jammy Rounds (Madeira buns dipped in raspberry ...
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Scottish bakeries create healthier Scotch pies
Scottish bakery companies McGhee’s and Pars Foods expect to sell half a million of their new reduced-fat Scotch pies in the next year, after launching the product at the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park stadium.The pies, which are branded McGhee’s ’Wi’oot the greeze’, are made with turkey instead of ...
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Mathiesons Foods buys up Scottish bakery firm
by Georgi Gyton Newly-formed bakery firm Mathiesons Foods Limited is already making plans to streamline operations at its three bakery production sites in Scotland.
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Funded Irish bakery folds
A Belfast bakery has closed down less than two years after moving to a new 16,000sq ft factory, which was part-funded with government money.Co Antrim-based Miller’s Bakery, which supplied retailers with speciality breads, was forced to close earlier this month with the loss of 42 jobs. In a statement, owners ...
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Greggs homes in on southern bakery site
Bakery retailer Greggs has revealed that it has found a piece of land which it believes is the right location for its planned new bakery in the south.Chief executive Ken McMeikan told British Baker that plans for a new bakery site in the Wiltshire area was on the agenda at ...
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TSOs to test salt levels in craft bakery breads
Trading Standards Officers (TSOs) will spearhead a project to test the salt levels of bread in craft bakeries across the UK and provide advice on how to reduce salt content in products.Working in conjunction with the NAMB, the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) has secured funding from the ...
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Reporting in Beyond the election
Matthew Goodman,Policy representative, Forum of Private BusinessI’m glad that’s over! The election, I mean. Votes have been tallied, majorities calculated, negotiations completed and we have a new Government, and, as I write, the Cabinet ministers are being appointed as part of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. When the dust has settled ...
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Maison Blanc strikes multiple deal
French boulangerie and patis-serie chain Maison Blanc has announced that it has won new business with Sainsbury’s.The company has just deve-loped a new dessert range for the supermarket, which will go into 350 stores under the brand name Maison Patisserie. It will be the first time the firm has supplied ...
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Commoditisation danger for gluten-free breads
A leading gluten-free bakery supplier has warned that the category could become commoditised if supermarkets continue to push their own-label products.Nutrition Point which owns DS (dietary specials) bread and Trufree snacks and biscuits believes gluten-free faces a similar predicament to mainstream bread 10 years ago, before value and ...