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New course in management
London South Bank University (LSBU) is to launch the UK’s first honours level degree in Baking Technology Management.The one-year, full-time "top-up" programme is set to start in September and is designed predominantly for students who have successfully completed LSBU’s two-year, full-time foundation degree.Units covered will include Applied Bakery Science, Artisan ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: As coconut starts to look increasingly good value, we would expect to see demand increase and prices start to creep up. UK prices have increased by between 5-10% over the past one to two months and this trend seems highly likely to continue in the short- to medium term.Raisins: ...
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Sainsbury’s embarks on major training initiative
Sainsbury’s is to open the UK’s first supermarket bakery college in an ambitious drive to train hundreds of staff.The college has been set up in partnership with flour supplier Whitworths, and is based at one of Whitworths bakeries in Welling-borough. Rather than using one of the usual colleges or universities, ...
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Martins Food Group
Newton Heath and Radcliffe, Manchester Machinery: two 4m downflow booths, designed to contain dust, such as flour, over large areas of emission Why installed: to control flour and ingredient dust at the point of weighing in preparation for onward baking How it came about: after discussions with Flextraction, the company ...
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Honeytop Speciality Foods
Dunstable, Bedfordshire Machinery: a bespoke modular plastic belt conveying system Why installed: to integrate new packaging equipment for crumpets in production halls How it came about: Honeytop Speciality Foods wanted Astec Conveyors to design a conveying system from the discharge of the flow-wrappers in the production hall, through to the ...
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Food-safe sanitisers
The Country Range Group has expanded its professional range of cleaning products for 2010, with the addition of a food-safe sanitiser and a heavy-duty degreaser, both in five-litre bottles. It has also launched a range of napkins, in two sizes. These are initially available in white, but there are plans ...
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Train - or risk losing grants, warns SAMB
Bakers are being urged to make training a priority or face losing out on valuable grants, after changes to government funding kick in this spring. The Learning and Skills Council, which currently handles funding for adult skills-based education in England, is being disbanded at the end of March to make ...
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Handy pack for lemonade
Schweppes is to launch a new 500ml lemonade pack in March, which will be the first time the brand has been available in a handy takeaway format.The new pack will be launched in multiples and high-street retailers across the UK and will be supported by a national ’Try Me Free’ ...
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White plus joins wraps
Discovery Foods has redesigned its Wrapbread range and introduced a new variant to the market. White plus, the equivalent of ’best of both’ in bread, according to the company, now joins the three other variants in the range multiseed, white and wholemeal. The brand is presented in black packaging, ...
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Pins are just the ticket
Dalebrook Supplies has launched new ticket pins and stands, which can be used to promote special offers, label ingredients or simply display the price of an item.Three new products have been added to the range: a zinc alloy ticket stand; a zinc alloy ticket pin; and a stainless steel folded ...
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New Spin for slush kit
Italian ice cream equipment supplier Carpigiani has developed the Spin machine to produce slushes, shakes, smoothies and frappés. It features special effects to light up the product inside.Spin features a freezer with one, two or three 12-litre tanks and an indicator light to warn when the drip-tray is full.www.carpigiani.com
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Man, machine, method and money
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic management agency that works on brand development within the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectorsTime is everyone’s most valuable asset, so how do today’s successful in-store and high street bakers manage to achieve their targets? Answer: by giving customers what they ...
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Report
make the grade in thelatest Kantar reportThe country’s love affair with cupcakes shows no sign of abating, as their sales at in-store bakeries leapt by 41.6% in the last year.Kantar Worldpanel figures show that the popular sector was by far the biggest winner at in-store bakeries, followed by cookies (+11.5%), ...
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New pasty shopHusband and wife team Jeff and Jackie Welsh have opened a pasty shop in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, selling 39 different varieties of pasties. Newquay Pasty Shop Company is supplied by Cornish firm Crantock Bakery and has a 33-seat café.Irish cupcake dealIna’s Kitchen Desserts in Dublin has signed a 0.8m ...
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Costa loyalty cardThe UK’s biggest coffee chain Costa has launched a supermarket-style reward card scheme that will see customers accumulating points with each purchase of any food, drink or merchandising product sold in its Costa stores nationwide. The scheme has been on a year-long trial in Scotland.Donegal firm to growCo ...
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WRAP tackles sandwich and baked goods wastage
New research by Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is set to uncover how much waste is generated by pre-packed sandwiches. It is the first big study into the amount of waste in the UK retail supply chain created by pre-prepared food and aims to identify how this can be reduced, so that businesses can make cost and environmental savings.
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Ireland’s Gallagher’s Bakery boosts jobs
Co Donegal bakery company Galard Teo, which trades as Gallagher’s Bakery, has received an €0.8m investment from government agency Údaráis na Gaeltachta for new product development. The cash injection will fund 36 new jobs over the next three years, bringing the job total in the bakery to 207.
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FSA targets bakery for front-of-pack labelling
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it now wants cakes, puddings and yogurts to carry front of the pack nutritional labels, even as it climbs down on key stipulations of its ill-starred traffic lghts labelling initiative.
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Halls bakery tackles food miles
Lancashire bakery chain Halls has unveiled plans to expand via a network of stand-alone regional hubs, as a reponse to the issues of food miles and sustainability.