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Shops reopen after tragedy at bakehouse
Andrew Jones Pies’ two shops have reopened and a new factory has been sourced following a tragic explosion at its factory on Good Friday, which left one man dead.The explosion happened at Andrew Jones Pies bakehouse in Old Leeds Road, Huddersfield, only minutes after the 5am shift had started, ...
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Sticker attack on plant bread planned
The Real Bread Campaign is planning to distribute stickers to consumers for placing on packs of plant bread, warning them against unlabelled processing aids used to make loaves. The labels will first be distributed at the Real Food Festival, at London’s Earl’s Court from 8-10 May, and will then be ...
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New category joins Awards
British Baker is pleased to announce another new category for the Baking Industry Awards 2009. The Artisanal Bread Award will be sponsored by Morrisons and is open to all kinds of businesses, from small artisan bakeries to larger more automated producers that manage to incorporate artisanal methods.
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Baker takes top title in pie championship
The first ever British Pie Awards took place at St Mary’s Church, Melton Mowbray, Leicester this week.There were 277 hot pies and 234 cold entered - a grand total of 511 pies across 12 categories. These included Steak and Kidney, Cornish Pasty, Football Pie, Vegetarian, plus the famous Melton ...
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Popular demand spurs on Hambleton Bakery
A traditional bakery opened only last September by the owner of the renowned Hambleton Hall country hotel, in Rutland, is proving so successful that a third shop has opened this month to cope with public demand for its specialist breads.Hotelier Tim Hart initially opened his bakery in the village of ...
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Baking industry in limbo as salt goals stay unclear
The Food Standard Agency’s (FSA’s) long delay in publishing revised 2010 salt targets has left the baking industry in limbo, with companies unsure how much to invest in product reformulation as time runs out before the deadline.
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BB’s takes to forecourts in first move from malls
BB’s Coffee & Muffins plans to open up to 25 outlets in petrol station forecourts in the UK by the end of next year, after launching the first at a branch of Shell in Middlesbrough last month.The move is the first time the coffee and bakery chain has opened outlets ...
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BSA develops food hygiene and safety courses
The British Sandwich Association (BSA) has consulted some of the largest sandwich producers and retailers to develop online training courses for improving food safety and hygiene.Greggs, Subway, Tesco and Marks & Spencer have all had input into the new courses, which cover sandwich production in both the manufacturing and retail ...
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Reporting in Is ’clean label’ clean?
As the Soil Association prepares for its processing standards review, two aspects of the relationship between food producers and consumers seem paramount: trust and transparency. The former requires the latter. Food scares in the past 20 years damaged trust in conventional producers and encouraged people to seek organic alternatives, based ...
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Coffee outlets miss a trick on food-to-go sales
Coffee shops are missing out on sales because they are failing to emphasise the freshness and quality of their sandwiches, accor-ding to a new IGD report on consu- mer attitudes on food-to-go.While coffee shops generally have a good reputation for their hot drinks, many people prefer to buy their ...
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McCambridge saves costs in management shake-up
A shake-up in personnel at McCambridge, the Irish bread company that acquired Inter Link Foods in 2007, has seen CEO Gavin Cox leave the company with Andrew Coppel combining the role with his position as executive chairman.
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Edible nut pricing
Almonds: The Californian almond bloom was good, but there were widespread reports of a late frost that affected a number of countries to differing degrees. This will have impacted on the final crop figure come the harvest in August/September.Walnuts: To date, the volumes of new season walnuts imported from both ...
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Sugar - EU reform thoughts from Renshawnapier
The second phase of the main EU sugar reform finishes in October. As an independent, non-refining distributor of sugar in the UK, we welcome the reform. It will improve access to new African sugars, which could bring some new types of raw cane sugar to the UK from ...
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Fat under fire
It wasn’t long ago that the baking industry was at war with trans fats, spending vast amounts of time and money on new ingredients, reformulating recipes and changing production processes. The campaign was successful, with the so-called ’killer fat’ more or less vanquished from bakery products. But just when ...
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Rowe’s finds reggae rhythm
Cornish bakery Rowe’s has revealed that its new Reggae Reggae Chicken Pasty is now outselling its Traditional Steak variety - a first in its history.The Reggae Reggae Chicken Pasty was launched at the start of the year in over 300 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide. It has been developed using Reggae Reggae ...
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Which? finds ’shocking’ results for sandwiches
Consumer lobby group Which? has slammed sandwiches from Asda, Marks & Spencer and Subway as containing "shocking" amounts of salt, sugar or saturated fat and is calling for nutritional information to be available at point of sale for all sandwiches.Research published in Which? magazine found that Subway’s six-inch Meatball ...
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Wholesale success for fine food firm
Fine food retailer Lewis & Cooper’s move into wholesale looks to be paying off after its fruit cakes and biscuits were listed at 11 National Trust shops and retailer Lakeland ordered 11,000 of its plum puddings.The Northallerton-based shop, famous for its plum puddings and fruit cakes, launched its wholesale business ...
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Parkam snaps up Freshway Foods
Meat product manufacturer Parkam Food Group has acquired sandwich and chilled filling manufacturer Freshway Foods after the West Midlands-based company went into administration.Parkam has announced that Freshway Foods will now trade as Freshway Chilled Foods and combined group turnover will stand at around £140m.Family business Freshway, run by Alan and ...
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== Illegal workers found ==Nine men and one woman were identified as working illegally at the Anglo-Austrian Patisserie in Wimbledon on 15 April, in an operation by The UK Borders Agency. The bakery’s owner has been served a notice of potential liability for employing someone without the right to work, ...
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== Cooplands’ donation ==Cooplands of Doncaster has been inspired to raise money for The Children’s Hospital in Sheffield by five-year-old Grace Sellers, granddaughter of Cooplands’ sales administrator Helen Hulme. Grace is being treated for kidney cancer at the hospital. Cooplands has already raised over £3,000 and the money will be ...