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NewsVillage Bakery announces 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, after clinching a deal with the supermarket. The lines on offer include white and brown bread, barm cakes, fruit scones and tea cakes, and the firm has said it hopes to expand on the nine-strong range in the future.
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Craft Bakers’ Week claims national success
The inaugural National Craft Bakers’ Week caught the country’s imagination last week, with strong radio, TV and newspaper coverage and a surge in footfall at high street bakery shops. Sir Terry Wogan was one of the most vocal supporters of the event on his morning radio show, helped by a daily delivery of fresh bread, savouries and cakes from craft baker Chris Freeman of Dunn’s of Crouch End.
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Bakers take craft skills into schools
Schoolchildren up and down the country had the opportunity to become bakers for the day, as National Craft Bakers’ Week took bakery into the classroom. Cheshire-based Chatwins visited several schools and scout groups over the week, where it helped children decorate their own gingerbread men, explained chairman Edward Chatwin. ...
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Sweet bakery goods enjoy buoyant exports
UK exports of cakes and sweet biscuits increased significantly in 2008, according to the latest report by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), as the low value of the pound made UK products more competitive overseas. The data, supplied by Leatherhead Food International, showed exports of UK biscuits shot up ...
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Defra ’best-before’ plan could fall foul of EU law
The government’s controversial idea to phase out ’best-before’ dates to reduce food wastage could be scuppered by EU regulations, which specify that such labelling is mandatory. Defra minister Hilary Benn floated a plan earlier this month to simplify the range of date labels on food, such as ’use-by’, ’sell-by’, ’display-until’ ...
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Organic bread wins in green stakes, finds study
A new study has claimed that the environmental impact of the production, packaging and distri- bution of organic bread is far less than that of conventional bread, with organic bread emitting as much as a quarter less CO2 into the atmosphere.The research, conducted by the Öko-Institut in Freiburg, Germany, was ...
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Tesco deal turns to profit for Brogans
Irish bakery Brogans is set to break through the profit barrier for the first time in three years, following a deal to supply additional muffin lines to Tesco stores in the UK.
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Shift to pole-and-line fish could cause difficulties
Pret A Manger and M&S’ commitment to using sustainably caught tuna in sandwiches is likely to lead to supply problems, as fishermen struggle to meet the sudden switch in demand.Earlier this month, both retailers announced that net-caught tuna would be replaced in their sandwiches by more sustainable pole-and-line caught ...
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Charity to hold family open day
The Bakers’ Benevolent Society (BBS) is holding a family open day, following the success of its 150th anniversary open day last year.The event will be held on Sunday 5 July at Bakers’ Villas in Epping, Essex. BBS president Moira Rank will attend, as will members of the Worshipful Company ...
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Frozen desserts experience healthy growth
Sales of frozen desserts are growing at the expense of chilled alternatives, according to the latest research from Mintel. Sales increased by 4% in 2008 and are set to increase by a further 5% over the next year, said the market analyst. This could potentially mean the market would ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: The link between coconuts and crude oil pricing is incredibly close. Crude oil pricing strengthened in early April and coconut pricing also rose. With pricing correcting downwards in the second half of April, coconuts tracked the same trend.Raisins: Raisins remain tricky to read over the rest of the current ...
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Oats a find for Ireks
Ireks is marketing a new product, Avena Oat Bread, inspired by the historical importance of oats. The new bread mix contains more than 60% oats, an ingredient that Ireks says is being rediscovered more and more by consumers.Oats are rich in protein, contribute to the provision of essential amino acids, ...
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Unifine takes on new fond
Unifine has launched a lime and ricotta cheese fond as part of its Sucrea range. The fond comes in powder form, which then needs to be blended with 1kg of whipped cream and water to produce a Bavarois-style mix for desserts, gateaux and patisserie.The golden cream-coloured mix can also be ...
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Marketing insight Healthy food on the go
Picture this: You’ve left home without eating breakfast and, on the way to your second or third meeting, you realise that if you don’t grab something now, you won’t eat until dinner. Does this sound familiar? Or, more importantly, is this what your customers experience throughout the week? Fortunately for ...
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Fudges singles out foodservice
Family-run biscuit company Fudges has launched new single-serve sweet and savoury biscuits for the foodservice sector. The individual packs are being targeted at cafés, hotels, offices, canteens and airline catering. Fudges saw its products take off for the first time on a BA flight in March this year.The range includes: ...
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Fresh! offers tarts to go
Fresh! Naturally Organic launched a new range of tarts for the food-to-go and chilled ready-to-eat categories in Sainsbury’s earlier this month. The range, available in over 190 stores, features two 135g single-serve tarts and a 400g tart. Broccoli and Stilton and Goat’s Cheese and Onion Marmalade come in the 135g ...
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Morrisons gets the jump on salt targets
Morrisons is using new bakery improvers in its in-store bread to meet the Food Standards Agency’s 2012 salt targets ahead of schedule.Bakery trading manager Andy Clegg said it had been a long project, but the new improvers meant all its ISB bread now met the 2012 targets of 1g of ...
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Reporting in Industry-wide promotions
The promotion of the craft bakery sector through industry-wide initiatives is not new, but seems to be gaining momentum and this is a very welcome development.For many years now, the industry has supported National Doughnut Week and has raised significant sums of money for the nominated charity while ...
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Warburtons uses LOAF
Staff at Warburtons’ Enfield Bakery are to benefit from a new learning centre called LOAF. The Learning Opens Avenues Forever centre is designed to encourage staff to take up further education courses online. It was officially opened by MP for Enfield North Joan Ryan, accompanied by executive director Brett Warburton.The ...
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Spiral style for Pantheon
Pantheon has launched a new range of heavy-duty, dual-speed spiral mixers, targeted at bakeries and pizza restaurants. They are capable of kneading all types of dough and are suitable for bread products, cakes and pizzas.The stainless steel stirring hook and bowl both rotate clockwise and anti-clockwise and a rigid, rodded ...