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Greggs focuses on bakery in new high street pilot
Greggs is piloting a new type of high street store, which emphasises the retailer’s bakery roots and makes ’grab-and-go’ purchases easier, as it gears up for an accelerated round of shop openings next year.Two further ’new concept’ stores are due to open this year ahead of plans to roll-out at ...
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Honeytop Speciality Foods, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Machinery: two lines, each utilising four FlexPicker IRB 360 robots for the picking and stacking of pancakesWhy installed: to improve productivity and hygienic conditions for the production of pancakesHow it came about: recognising the need to improve productivity, the food specialist approached ABB’s channel partner RG Luma - ...
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Honeytop Speciality Foods, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Machinery: two lines, each utilising four FlexPicker IRB 360 robots for the picking and stacking of pancakesWhy installed: to improve productivity and hygienic conditions for the production of pancakesHow it came about: recognising the need to improve productivity, the food specialist approached ABB’s channel partner RG Luma - ...
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Remaining BIA finalists are revealed
British Baker is delighted to announce the Baking Industry Awards finalists for the ADM Milling-sponsored Bakery Food Manufacturer of the Year category. Mark Jones of New Primebake, Des Kingsley of Kensey Foods and Sarah Day of Greencore Cakes & Desserts, will join the other finalists at our 1930s-themed event at ...
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Remaining BIA finalists are revealed
British Baker is delighted to announce the Baking Industry Awards finalists for the ADM Milling-sponsored Bakery Food Manufacturer of the Year category. Mark Jones of New Primebake, Des Kingsley of Kensey Foods and Sarah Day of Greencore Cakes & Desserts, will join the other finalists at our 1930s-themed event at ...
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Peter Hunt’s strikes deal with Birds Eye for pies
Peter Hunt’s Bakery has signed a deal with Birds Eye to supply all its pies, which has seen the Bolton-based firm begin production for the first time since it was purchased last year. The bakery, bought by the David Wood Baking Group in October 2008, will supply around 40 million pies a year to Birds Eye, as well as producing its Chicken Lattice range.
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Peter Hunt’s strikes deal with Birds Eye for pies
Peter Hunt’s Bakery has signed a deal with Birds Eye to supply all its pies, which has seen the Bolton-based firm begin production for the first time since it was purchased last year.The bakery, bought by the David Wood Baking Group in October 2008, will supply around 40 million pies ...
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Muffin visits Black Forest
Forecourt-based café Wild Bean is introducing a Black Forest Muffin to its offering this month. It has been developed exclusively for the café and will only be available for two months in BP Connect petrol stations. The chocolate muffin is flecked with black cherry pieces and milk and dark chocolate ...
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Muffin visits Black Forest
Forecourt-based café Wild Bean is introducing a Black Forest Muffin to its offering this month. It has been developed exclusively for the café and will only be available for two months in BP Connect petrol stations. The chocolate muffin is flecked with black cherry pieces and milk and dark chocolate ...
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Brighton cake designer scoops Selfridges contract
Brighton-based cake designer Choccywoccydoodah has signed a deal to supply Selfridges’ food halls across the country with a collection of stylish cakes, as well as personalised wedding and celebration cakes.To highlight the collaboration, the company created a seaside-themed cake sculpture, inspired by sailors and mermaids, for a large display in ...
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Brighton cake designer scoops Selfridges contract
Brighton-based cake designer Choccywoccydoodah has signed a deal to supply Selfridges’ food halls across the country with a collection of stylish cakes, as well as personalised wedding and celebration cakes.To highlight the collaboration, the company created a seaside-themed cake sculpture, inspired by sailors and mermaids, for a large display in ...
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Pidy brings in dessert kit
Belgian pastry specialist Pidy has launched a new dessert kit - Tarto Presto. Tartlettes and crème patissière form the basis for the kit, which contains all you need to prepare and decorate shortcrust pastry tartlets. The starter box contains 24 x 8.5cm shortcrust tartlets and a 1kg pack of crème ...
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Pidy brings in dessert kit
Belgian pastry specialist Pidy has launched a new dessert kit - Tarto Presto. Tartlettes and crème patissière form the basis for the kit, which contains all you need to prepare and decorate shortcrust pastry tartlets. The starter box contains 24 x 8.5cm shortcrust tartlets and a 1kg pack of crème ...
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Cinnabon set to build national café chain
Global bakery-café chain Cinnabon, which specialises in cinnamon rolls, plans to muscle in on the UK market by opening 40 stores over the next five years.The company, which originates in the US and operates over 700 stores in 30 countries, recently let loose a team of muscle-bound ’Cinnahunks’, laden ...
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Cinnabon set to build national café chain
Global bakery-café chain Cinnabon, which specialises in cinnamon rolls, plans to muscle in on the UK market by opening 40 stores over the next five years.The company, which originates in the US and operates over 700 stores in 30 countries, recently let loose a team of muscle-bound ’Cinnahunks’, laden ...
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Hovis sales are buoyant, as market share rises
Like-for-like sales of Hovis bread grew 17% in the first half of 2009, boosting the brand’s share of the market to its highest in two years. However, profits are proving harder to come by, according to one City analyst.The jump in Hovis’ sales, announced in parent company Premier ...
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Hovis sales are buoyant, as market share rises
Like-for-like sales of Hovis bread grew 17% in the first half of 2009, boosting the brand’s share of the market to its highest in two years. However, profits are proving harder to come by, according to one City analyst.The jump in Hovis’ sales, announced in parent company Premier ...
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Calorie inclusion in FSA proposal shocks industry
The sweet bakery industry was left "gob-smacked" by the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) decision to include calorie reduction as part of its consul-tation on cutting saturated fat in baked goods.As widely expected, the FSA has proposed voluntary targets - described as "recommendations" in the consultation - for cutting ...
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Calorie inclusion in FSA proposal shocks industry
The sweet bakery industry was left "gob-smacked" by the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) decision to include calorie reduction as part of its consul-tation on cutting saturated fat in baked goods.As widely expected, the FSA has proposed voluntary targets - described as "recommendations" in the consultation - for cutting ...
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Mama’s takes the title in Cupcake challenge
Mama’s Cupcakes from Cheshunt, Herts has been crowned overall champion of our national Cupcake Competition, in association with National Cupcake Week. Co-sponsored by Puratos and Chelver, the forthcoming week, 14-19 September, is designed to promote the highly popular baked good and the different recipes bakers can use to create them.