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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.
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Wrights unveils trial store
Wrights has unveiled a prototype flagship store and retail brand in Stoke-on-Trent, which the firm hopes will broaden its appeal to consumers.
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Places available at BB roundtable
British Baker is holding a round-table, The Big Bakery Debate: Saturated Fat and Calories Consultation, on Wednesday 21 October at the Landmark Hotel, London, and is keen to hear from industry representatives who would like to attend.
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Costa announces revenue rise
Costa Coffee increased its revenue by a fifth in the six months to 27 August 2009, as parent company Whitbread revealed a strong set of figures.
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Fine Lady Bakeries confirms plan for northern base
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.