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Challenging fluctuations on cocoa and sugar prices
Cake and biscuit manufacturers are having to contend with wildly fluctuating sugar and cocoa prices, with little sign that the situation will stabilise in the coming year.Cocoa prices reached a 29-year high of $3,143/tonne last month 17% higher than a year ago and 62% higher than two years ago ...
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Dip, coat or drizzle
KeyChoc has launched new processing machines, designed to appeal to bakers and patissiers.Made from food-grade stainless steel, the machines are suitable for dipping items in chocolate, drizzling chocolate on to cakes or patisserie and coating tray-bakes. The new MM series includes the KeyChoc MM08 Moulding Machine, a table-top-sized processor, capable ...
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Stiletto cuts to free-from
Mrs Crimble’s free-from range has been refreshed to offer a wider range for consumers and to create a more uniform brand identity. Owned by Stiletto Foods, the free-from foods brand now includes light cheese crackers in Rosemary and Onion, Sun-dried Tomato and Pesto and Original Cheese flavours, as well as ...
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Speedibake’s fresh deal
Norbert Dentressangle, which took over Christian Salvesen in 2007, has been awarded a two-year temperature-controlled storage and distribution contract with baked goods manufacturer Speedibake. Part of Associated British Foods, Speedibake is one of the leading producers of own-brand bakery products for the UK retail and foodservice sector. With turnover of ...
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Delice moves to gluten-free
Delice de France has worked with Fayrefield FoodTech to develop a gluten-free bakery range. Delice said it has seen the category develop, to include not just coeliacs, but consumers who choose to eat gluten-free, due to other health benefits.The range consists of sandwich bread and blueberry and chocolate chip muffins, ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: It is generally thought there is potentially less of a price downside on coconuts than a larger upside. Demand is also thought to increase as prices, helped by the weaker dollar, have improved.Raisins: The new Californian crop will be about 10% less than last year. In Turkey, post-harvest suggests ...
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Reporting in Education opportunity
For such a successful and progressive industry, we experience surprising difficulties in connecting up with the education sector to sell careers in baking. Among teachers, pupils and parents, the level of knowledge about what we offer in careers is abysmal. A great deal more work needs to be done but ...
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Fine Lady sets its sights on the north
Fine Lady Bakeries has announced plans to build a £20m bakery in Newton Heath, east Manchester.Planning permission has been submitted for the site, which would become Fine Lady’s northern base.Joe Street, managing director of the Banbury-based company, said the east Manchester location would offer excellent transport links both north and ...
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Is the FSA ’full of it’?
Salt is yet again top of the agenda at the Food Standards Agency (FSA), with bakers seemingly obliged to stand in a continual firing line. Its new campaign encourages shoppers to look at the labels of foods, such as bread, sandwiches and pizza, and buy those with the lowest salt ...
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Mama’s plans for winter
National Cupcake Week’s overall recipe champion Mama’s Cupcakes has launched a new winter range, including its competition-winning Black Forest variety a chocolate sponge laced with kirsch and glacé cherries.Also in the range is My Christmas Cupcake a fruit cake with sherry-soaked fruit, nuts and cherries, topped with marzipan, ...
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Biscuit exports upExports of sweet biscuits are up, as the food and drinks sector is on track to achieve its fourth consecutive year of record export growth, according to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF). Sweet biscuits were up 12.4% to £95.2m in the first six months of 2009. But ...
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LASER targets guestsThis year’s LASER Dinner and Dance will be held at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire on 14 November. As a guest you would have complimentary use of the club’s new health and racquet pavilion. Tickets for the event are £75 and are available from: LASER, 142 Banstead Road, Caterham, CR3 ...
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Bako golf dayBako Northern held its 21st annual charity golf day last month at Durham City Golf Club. The event raised £635, which was donated to ’The Puffin Appeal’ in Newcastle, which cares for children who suffer from cystic fibrosis, asthma and other lung diseases.Wrights’ store debutWrights has unveiled a ...
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Aspin to the rescueSouth Shields firm JW Rae Bakers has been rescued from liquidation by Sunderland-based Monument Foods. Aspin Bakery, a division of Monument, has acquired the business, saving 16 jobs. Following the acquisition Aspin Bakery will move into new premises in South Shields and plans to expand its product ...
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FSA reaffirms recommendation on folic acid
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reaffirmed its recommendation that bread or flour should be fortified with folic acid after considering updated information on folic acid and cancer from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN).
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Greggs plans new bakery in the south
Greggs plans to build an additional bakery in the south of England to support the proposed opening of 600 new stores.
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Breakthrough for bread shelf-life
A breakthrough method to increase the shelf-life of bread by up to 14 days has been licensed to food ingredients company Puratos.
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South Shields bakery buyout
South Shields firm JW Rae Bakers has been rescued from liquidation by a division of Sunderland-based Monument Foods.
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Less salt, more taste?
A Nottingham company claims to have discovered a way of modifying salt, to provide more taste from smaller quantities. Eminate Limited’s product Soda-Lo 20 could potentially help bakers achieve lower salt targets in their products without compromising on taste, it is claimed.