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FSA reveals sat fat plans
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has unveiled the first raft of its recommendations for reducing saturated fat and added sugar in bakery products, following its consultation last summer.
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The search is still on for BBC One bakery family
TV production company Wall to Wall is still on the look out for a baker and their family to take part in a new programme, labelled a “living history experience” for BBC One.
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GreenPalm raises $4m
Over $4m has been raised so far from the sale of GreenPalm certificates, since the start of the scheme 18 months ago, and there are plans for a European roll-out.The $4m figure equates to the sale of 460,000 certificates, said Bob Norman, general manager of Book&Claim, which operates the ...
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Bakers join abolition call on upward-only rents
Bakery retailers are showing their support for criticism of upward-only rent reviews, with calls for the practice to be abolished in the UK.The Irish government banned upward-only rent reviews in all new retail leases last month, while the British Retail Consortium (BRC) in the UK is currently gathering evidence from ...
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Aldi boost for Welsh bakery
Cae Groes Bakery in North Wales hopes to double its turn-over as business with super-market chain Aldi takes off.The bakery, which makes bread, morning goods and cakes, has been supplying Aldi for 18 months and won a new contract to supply cakes to the supermarket in autumn 2009. It now ...
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American take on cakes
The Handmade Cake Company has developed its traybakes range with four new or improved offerings all with a North American influence. Now available are Rocky Road, Chocolate Pecan Brownie, Lemon Drizzle and Granola varieties. The traybakes are pre-portioned into 12 pieces and have a recommended retail price of £1.50-£1.90.The ...
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FSA announces salt reduction progress
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published commitments from a number of bakery manufacturers highlighting the progress they’ve made with salt reduction.
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Bakels targets convenience
Ingredients supplier Bakels has added four new product launches and six new and improved recipes to its line-up of cake and sponge mixes, all aimed at increasing convenience for bakers.Leading the launches is Genoese Mix Complete for producing a Genoese slab for celebration and novelty cakes that require a flat ...
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New breads for bake-off
Country Choice has added a Harvest Grain Parisienne to sit alongside its existing White Parisienne. The new 400g baguette, made from a blend of brown flour and malted wheat grain, should be baked from frozen for 12 minutes.New Batched Brown Crusty Rolls follow the firm’s launch of Batched White Crusty ...
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Bakers chosen for World Cup challenge team
Wayne Caddy and Mickael Jahan will represent the UK in The Louis Lesaffre Cup, after winning two categories in the UK national heats at the Baking Industry Exhibition earlier this week.
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Belvoir’s twist on tradition
Belvoir Fruit Farms is launching new pressés, described as having a refreshing ’homemade’ taste.Raspberry Lemonade Pressé (25cl) is a blend of raspberry juice, lemon juice and lightly sparkling Belvoir spring water, while Organic Orange & Jasmine Pressé (25cl) is a zesty blend of orange, lime and lemon juice with a ...
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Delice rolls out products for birthday
Delice de France, which is marking its 25th anniversary this year, is celebrating with the launch of 60 new products for spring, as well as a revamped website.Joining its Breads of the World range is a new Mediterranean Bread a sourdough bread containing Kalamata olives, sun-dried tomatoes, and red ...
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Bullish growth for café chain
Premium café chain Patisserie Valerie is on target to have 125 stores by 2013, with at least six opening this year.Shops in Leeds, Bath, and London will soon follow those recently launched in Cambridge and Canterbury and the firm is in negotiations to open even more in 2010. There are ...
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Finsbury sees decline in cakes as habits change
Finsbury Food Group has reported an 11% decline in cake sales in the first eight weeks of 2010, as consumers continue to trade down.In its interim results for the 26 weeks to 2 January, 2010, the country’s second-largest cake producer reported an 8% fall in like-for-like cake sales to £65.3m, ...
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Firkins closes three shops, but plans six
Troubled bakery chain Firkins is closing three of its stores, just a few months after the chain was bought out of administration for the third time. However, the West Midlands company now trading as Newbridge Bakery is set to open six stores in the region and insists it ...
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Starbucks drives in new motorway outlet concept
Road-users will soon find it easier to pick up a coffee and a pastry after Starbucks revealed plans to open nearly 60 new outlets at motorway service stations and petrol forecourts.The company, which has 661 outlets in the UK, has signed a licensing deal with forecourt operator Euro Garages to ...
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Reporting in Training: continued development needed
Matthew MayAlliance for Bakery Students and Trainees RepresentativeTwo years ago the ’One Voice’ meeting was held at the NEC in Birmingham during the Baking Industry Exhibition. The event was called in response to an industry-wide acceptance that the current education and training provision was falling short of delivering industry requirements.During ...
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Dawn strikes major deal with Subway
Cooked and fermented meat supplier Dawn Farm Foods has announced a seven year contract, worth E700m (£631m), to supply Subway’s franchise in Europe.Subway currently has 1,485 outlets in the UK and Ireland and a further 1,400 across Continental Europe. Dawn Foods chief executive Larry Murrin said it was a significant ...
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IXIA develops denester
Pick-and-place denesting technology specialist IXIA Packaging Systems has developed a high-performance denester for the baking industry. It has been designed to automatically pick, fold and place U card or acetate pack bases on to a flighted conveyor, ready for filling and wrapping.U cards or acetates are used to line the ...
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Register now for Doughnut Week offer
Bakers who register now to take part in National Doughnut Week 2010 will get a voucher worth £5 off either a bag of Craigmillar Doughnut Concentrate or a box of Readi-Bake Topped Ring Doughnuts, from sponsors CSM United Kingdom.Taking place this year from May 8-15, National Doughnut Week raises money ...