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Coopland and Cooplands bid for Ainsleys shops
Cooplands (Doncaster) and Coopland & Son (Scarborough) are on the verge of signing a joint deal to buy 22 of Ainsleys’ 29 shops out of administration.The two companies, which are separate businesses with different sets of shareholders, but which have family links, are understood to have collaborated on and agreed ...
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North East Bakery folds as retail ambitions fall flat
North East Bakery has folded with "nearly all" its 120 staff made redundant only days before Christmas.The Newcastle-based firm, run by entrepreneur Greg Phillips, went into administration on 22 December after costly rebranding plans and "a disappointing trading performance" in recent months saw the firm’s liquidity hit hard. Phillips was ...
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O’Briens’ UK arm saved by new company
The UK arm of Irish sandwich chain O’Briens’ has been bought from administration by a newly formed company.O’Briens Irish Sandwich Bars (Franchising) UK now operates the brand in the UK, supporting the chain’s 101 franchise stores in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Irish company’s UK operation was put into ...
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McCambridge axes failing own-label sites
McCambridge has announced that it intends to close two of its own-label division factories as part of its strategy to streamline the business.Group commercial director Neil Fraser said Lisa Bakery in Oldham, which produces predominantly Swiss- and mini rolls, and William Lusty in Heywood, Lancashire, which manufactures slab cakes, have ...
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Gatorade promo bites back
Britvic and PepsiCo’s sports drink Gatorade is to launch a year-long on-pack promotion starting this month. Entitled ’Gatorade Gives Back’ it will reward consumers with sports equipment, music downloads, sporting holidays and money-can’t-buy experiences. For a chance of winning, consumers need to collect codes, which can then be entered online ...
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Bakers and retailers see positive festive sales
Consumers appear to have dug deep into their pockets this Christmas, with the industry reporting sales holding up well over the festive period compared with the previous year.Craft baker John Smith, with two shops near Aberdeen, told British Baker: "Christmas trading was very good ahead of last year. The ...
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Northern Foods sees ‘good growth’ in bakery
Northern Foods has announced a solid Christmas trading performance, with “good growth” in its Bakery and Chilled divisions.
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Supplier seeks fruitful return from bakery
Dried food supplier Community Foods is looking to increase its foothold in the bakery ingre-dients market with the appointment of a new managing director and the installation of a new fruit-soaking line. Martin Rome, formally of Whitworth’s, recently took up the position of MD and was joined by another former ...
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Bidwells highlights gap for ’local’ bread in capital
Supplies of local and regional bread cannot keep pace with demand in London due to the lack of an effective distribution network, according to a new report, which recommends setting up a regional hub to tackle the problem.Outside caterers, gastropubs, work canteens and coffee shops ranked bread as the number ...
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Greggs pips Subway to mantle of biggest retailer
Greggs held on to its position as the country’s largest bakery retailer by the narrowest margin in British Baker’s expanded BB75 league table for 2010.The chain currently has 1,419 UK shops, just 10 more than sandwich chain Subway. The latter opened 125 sites last year, closing the 119 store gap ...
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Bread sales boosted as snow blights Britain
Bread sales spiked in the past two weeks as snow covered the UK and the population stocked up on loaves amid media reports of panic-buying.A spokesman for Sainsbury’s said sales of bread were up 15% in the first three days of January’s snowfall. Tesco’s bread supplier similarly noted a rise ...
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Scottish company bucks downturn
Lees Foods has defied the recession and announced record sales in 2009, up 13% on 2008. The parent company of Lees of Scotland and Waverley Bakery saw sales from continuing operations hit £18.2m for the year to December 2009, compared to £16.1m for the comparable 2008 period.In its trading update, ...
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Chappell’s collapses in run-up to Christmas
Melton Mowbray pork pie company Chappell’s Fine Foods has gone into liquidation just six months after it was taken over by a new owner with ambitious plans to expand sales.The factory in Wigston, Leicester, closed suddenly before Christmas, leaving its 12 employees out of work and its customers frantically searching ...
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Heinz feeds need for choice
Heinz Foodservice is to offer Heinz SqueezMe! sauce pods in a variety pack from February. The 80-pod pack will be made up of five different sauces 20 Heinz Mayonnaise, 20 Heinz Garlic Mayo, 20 Heinz Tartare, 10 HP Brown and 10 HP BBQ.Tal Drori, brand manager for Heinz Foodservice, ...
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Country-of-origin labelling creates confusion
New research commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed that there is a low level of consumer engagement with, and understanding of, country-of-origin labelling (COOL).
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: Prices remain at reasonable levels. Given the general bullishness across the market and with coconut in increasing demand across a variety of applications, pricing is more likely to rise than to fall.Raisins: Prices should have weakened further than they have, yet origin sellers remain cautious in the hope that ...
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Wenzel’s trials kiosk format in tube station
London chain Wenzel’s has opened a trial kiosk outlet at London’s Baker Street station this week as it explores new routes to market. The 600sq ft outlet, which opened on 14 January, sells a range of food-to-go items and is open from 6am to 9pm, seven days a week.The 16-shop ...
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Kingsmill taps into taste for oats
Kingsmill has spotted a gap in the market and filled it with a new smooth loaf, baked with oats and wheat, branded Oatilicious. The firm said it has looked to what’s popular within the breakfast cereal market and has applied it to bread. "Oat-led products, combining the goodness of wholegrain ...
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Warburtons makes most of muffins
Warburtons has launched new Toasting Muffins this month, and is encouraging retailers to take advantage of the cold weather by offering them to consumers. The muffins will be available in packs of four, and can be marketed as an alternative breakfast food. They have been gently forked around the middle, ...
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PPE reduces rubber risk
A new metal detectable elastomer, designed to help bakeries reduce the risk of rubber contamination in bread and other bakery products, has been launched.Detectaseal is FDA-compliant and has been developed by Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE). Fragments as small as 2mm can be identified by conventional, in-line, metal detection equipment.The o-ring ...