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Fiendishly tempting treats
Premier Foods has launched its Halloween range, which includes a number of new products. Mr Kipling Fiendish Fancies are an orange and black version of the popular French Fancy, which sold well last year. Also available will be new cake bars from Cadbury Cinder Toffee ...
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Improve seeks views on qualification
A call has been put out to employers to give their views on a new bakery qualification being developed by food and drink sector skills council Improve.
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So you want to improve your offer?
As a bakery shop how many times have you wanted to change, improve or review your offer and didn’t have a clue where to start?The best place to begin is with what you are currently doing and, most importantly, getting right: look at what is selling well, with good margins ...
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Tubs showcase pastries
Sharp Interpack has launched a new range of bakery ’tubs’ or ’chests’. These have been designed specifically for products such as pastries, cookies and cakes and are available in four different depths: shallow, medium, semi-deep and super-deep. They are made from 60% recycled APET and offer ...
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Seed Pricing
Pinenuts: The market continues to go from bad to worse. There has been some respite over the past month when there were offers of Pakistani pinenuts, however many manufacturers find these more oily with generally a shorter shelf life than the Chinese. There is increasing demand for a product that ...
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The results of a study recently published in the Nutrition Journal revealed that eating rye breakfasts can suppress the appetite during the period before lunch. The aim of the study, conducted by Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, was to investigate subjective appetite for the eight hours after a rye bread ...
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Cupcake contestFollowing last week’s successful first ever National Cupcake Week, don’t forget to send in your entries for British Baker’s cupcake window display competition. Winners of the best cupcake-themed display, to promote the week, will win the fantastic prize of two tickets to the prestigious Baking Industry Awards in 2010. ...
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Pret director tributesPret A Manger’s former commercial director Simon Hargraves has died from cancer. Tributes in Sandwich & Snack News spoke of his popularity in the office, his ability to make work a pleasurable experience and his high standards and intuition.Lion Eggs onlineBakers who want to source British Lion Egg ...
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Equipment from 1913The Beamish Museum is working on reconstructing a 1913 bakery and is trying to find old bakery equipment from 1900-1914 that might still be around. If you can help them out or have any equipment you could donate, please contact Kate Reeder on 0191 370 4009 or email ...
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M&S sandwich dealChilled and frozen food producer Uniq has awarded NFT a three-year contract to distribute sandwiches to Marks & Spencer. Uniq produces an average of 250,000 units a day, which NFT will deliver through its network. NFT is a provider of logistics solutions within the food retail and manufacturing ...
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Wholegrain is good for your waistline?
The intake of higher levels of wholegrain and cereal fibre in older adults has been linked to lower total body fat, in a study by the American Society for Nutrition.
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Belfast bakery struggles under weight of debts
Millers Traditional Bakery is fighting to stay in business and protect 60 jobs after running up big debts.
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Professional versus amateur cupcake-off competition
Professional bakers are going head-to-head with amateur chefs in the latest culinary craze: monthly cupcake-offs.
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Warrens Bakery opens cupcake café
Cornwall-based Warrens Bakery has opened Sprinkles, a cupcake café in Penzance, just in time for National Cupcake Week.
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Duchy and Waitrose join forces
Waitrose has joined forces in a new agreement with Duchy Originals which will give the supermarket the exclusive right to originate, manufacture, distribute and sell Duchy products. Waitrose aims to more than double the current range of 200 products to around 500, and will pay a royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail sales.
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BakeMark launches POS website for bakers
BakeMark UK has launched a new website in order to help bakers with point-of-sale materials and to remove some of the expense of design and print costs.
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Lees Foods’ chief to leave
Lees Foods’ chairman and chief executive Raymond Miquel CBE has left the firm.
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Europastry to expand in Holland
Spanish firm Europastry is to open a commercial subsidiary in Holland in order to widen its distribution links in Europe. The new site will serve its markets in Germany, Belgium and Northern Europe, to which it already distributes.
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Leakers picks up Taste of Dorset accolade
Bridport-based Leakers Bakery has triumphed at this year’s Taste of Dorset competition, picking up the accolade for Best Artisan Baker.
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NewsThe smallest cupcake ever?
North-west bakery chain Sayers and Hampsons has decided to celebrate National Cupcake Week, not with an attempt to make the largest cupcake, but by creating the smallest!