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Warburtons bakery sets agenda for south west
Warburtons has opened its new Bristol bakery, which has cost £45m. Designed to strengthen the brand’s presence in the south west, it will give the firm improved distribution throughout the Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and Bristol areas.
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Extra funding agreed for apprentices
Additional funding to increase the number of adult apprentices in Scotland in areas such as bakery has been agreed. The move follows consultation between sector skills council Improve and Skills Development Scotland (SDS), and will see 400 adult apprentice places offered at food and drink companies. It follows ...
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Allen’s key to efficency
Allen Coding’s 55SST thermal transfer printer has been designed to increase efficiency on food production lines, providing high speeds of up to 400mm per second (intermittent) and 750mm per second (continuous). It can reproduce a broad range of information, including bar codes, sell-by dates, batch numbers, graphics and prices, and ...
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Nicholas & Harris buys Goswell’s bread brands
Finsbury Foods subsidiary Nicholas & Harris has acquired the licences for speciality bread brands Vogel’s, Cranks and Dove’s Farm from East End bakery Goswell in a £2.2m deal. Production has already been transferred from Goswell’s Can-ning Town bakery to Nicholas & Harris in Salisbury, Wiltshire, with 71 staff at ...
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Bosch bagger’s versatile style
Bosch packaging technology has launched a new SVI vertical bagger series, suitable for food and non-food applications. The machine’s low height and the numerous retrofitting options makes it capable of performing multiple standard bag styles for an unlimited range of products, such as bakery and confectionery items, powders and tea ...
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Reusable lunch bags
Planglow has launched reusable jute lunch bags, which can be sold to customers in bakery retailers as an alternative to plastic bags. The bags are designed to hold lunchtime items such as a sandwich, drink and snack, and feature the words ’Small bag - Big difference’. Jute is a natural ...
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Baguette Express plans UK franchise empire
Sandwich chain Baguette Express plans to rival Subway and Greggs on UK high streets by building an empire of more than 300 franchised stores over the next five years via a network of regional master franchisees. The East Lothian-based company, which currently has 55 outlets in Scotland and England, has ...
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Saffron cost rises put a stop to baker’s cakes
A fourfold rise in the price of top-grade saffron has forced an award-winning Cornish bakery to cease production of its saffron cakes and buns. Rob Ead, who runs the Chough Bakery in Padstow with his wife Elaine, said the price rise from £97/kg to £410/kg means ...
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National bakery skills training is a step closer
Major steps have been taken towards a pan-industry qualification in underpinning bakery skills, with four leading firms signing up to a pilot scheme that launches in September. The pilot has been developed by an industry-wide employer-led bakery steering group that represents craft, plant and supermarket bakers, alongside the National ...
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Village Bakery clinches North Wales Tesco deal
The Village Bakery, based in Minera, near Wrexham, is to see nine of its lines stocked in 11 Tesco stores in North Wales, following a deal with the retailer. The lines on offer include white and brown bread, barm cakes, fruit scones and tea cakes, and the firm has said ...
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O’Briens seeks to sell leases as economy bites
The UK arm of Irish sandwich chain O’Briens, comprising 109 franchised outlets, has been put into administration in an effort to renegotiate rents and restructure the business.
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British grates
Artisan Biscuits has launched a range of cheese biscuits under the name Grate Britain. The all-British range consists of Cheddar Biscuits, made with Wookey Hole Cave-Aged Cheddar; Stilton Biscuits, made with Long Clawson Blue Stilton; and Smoked Cheese Biscuits, made with Dorset Red. The cheese is freshly grated for every ...
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Little Venice invites DIY celebration
London-based Little Venice Cake Company has signed a deal to supply 204 Sainsbury’s stores across the country with celebration cakes that can be finished by consumers at home. Available in two sizes (5in at £9.99 and 8in at £14.99), the fruit cakes are hand-decorated with almond marzipan, simple white icing ...
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Constant shows sensitivity
A new metal detector has been launched by Constant Instruments, offering sensitivity up to 30% higher than earlier models. The THS/MS21 metal detector, suitable for use in bakeries, can detect contaminant particles at high speed, even for difficult highly conductive products, such as those containing high levels of salt or ...
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Gerald takes quality control
Applied Principles has launched a new paperless quality management system called Gerald, designed with bakeries and small manufacturers in mind. It eliminates huge amounts of paperwork, while giving real-time reporting, collation of trendable data, traceability, audit compliance and time- and cost-savings. The system features a personal digital assistant, with a ...
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Enter your cupcake now!
Time is running out to find the UK’s best cupcake (deadline 8 July), so enter our Cupcake Week competition, sponsored by Puratos, now! A panel of independent judges awaits your entries: l Baking guru Dan Lepard is The Guardian’s bakery writer, blogger and author of several well-respected books on ...
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Get to grips with granules
Ishida Europe has launched a new Cut-gate Weigher, designed for the weighing of granular products, such as sugar and salt or granules for hot and cold drinks. According to Ishida, the weigher is typically three times more accurate than conventional filling or dosing systems. Its gentle handling preserves the particle ...
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Roll sales suffer, but hot weather may help
The trend for making sandwiches at home to save on lunch bills, which has seen sales of sliced loaves soar, has not extended to bread rolls, which saw sales drop in the 12 weeks to 17 May. Figures from TNS Worldpanel show that sales of packaged plant rolls fell in ...
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Irwin’s takes Softee touch
Northern Irish-bakery Irwin’s has launched a new sliced white pan - Irwin’s Softee - in order to capitalise on the renewed growth in sliced white bread. It is packaged in a traditional wax wrapper and contains double the standard amount of Canadian wheat flour, which creates the softness, says the ...
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Small style from Melitta
Melitta has launched The Bar-Cube, a new bean-to-cup machine to fit onto the smallest of counter spaces. Measuring 430mm wide x 500mm deep x 465mm high, it can produce 150 espressos per hour and has 18 different menu settings. Two bean hoppers enable users to provide a choice of coffees ...