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Porter takes expertise to vanilla beans
Porter Foods has launched a new vanilla bean paste range, suitable for professional and home baking.The range can be used in cakes, ice-cream and drinks and was recognised as a Fresh Ideas award winner at this year’s International Food Exhibition. The paste sachets with vanilla seeds provide a longer shelf-life ...
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Belgian firm continues with steady expansion
Belgian bakery and café chain Le Pain Quotidien has opened a store in Parsons Green, west London - its third new outlet in the capital this year.The company is also on track to open another in Covent Garden in September, which will bring its number of shops in the UK ...
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Real Bread campaigns for support
The Real Bread Campaign plans to recruit more craft bakers to its cause by launching a practical guide on how to cut additives in commercially made loaves.Raising support among craft bakers will be a key responsibility for a new National Lottery-funded campaign co-ordinator, due to be appointed shortly, said campaign ...
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Jobs saved as Coombs Hampshires finds buyer
Leicestershire bakery chain Coombs Hampshires has been bought out of administration for an undisclosed sum, saving up to 150 jobs.The business and assets have been purchased by Adam Baxter, who had been running the bakery with his father, Keith, prior to its collapse. However, six of its 26 stores are ...
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Ovens move as Interbake buys IBE
Production of Thomas Collins Vectair Ovens has moved to Lancashire, following Interbake’s acquisition of Independent Bakery Equipment (IBE).Interbake director David Dunne told British Baker that he decided to buy the Bristol-based company, which has a history dating back to the 1890s, because its ovens are energy- efficient and well-suited ...
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It’s a wrap for cakes
Country Choice has launched a new range of thaw-and-sell wrapped cake slices under the Bake & Bite retail brand. The cakes are being targeted for impulse purchases and can be displayed in one of Country Choice’s impulse confectionery units. They are available in six flavours: carrot cake; iced cherry & ...
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Keen interest in troubled Coffee Republic chain
Coffee Republic’s holding company, Coffee Republic plc, has gone into administration follo-wing the closure of 10 out of the 20 Coffee Republic (UK) Ltd-owned stores, which has resulted in 66 redundancies.The failure of the holding company comes after its subsidiaries - Coffee Republic (UK), Coffee Republic Franchising and Goodbean - ...
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Insomnia defies gloom with promotional deals
Irish coffee shop chain Insomnia says recession-busting deals linking coffee and baked goods are driving sales, with over half its business now coming from promotions. It plans to continue the tactic throughout 2009.The Dublin-based 52-shop chain has run a series of successful discounts and ’meal deals’ since the onset of ...
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Reporting in Don’t ignore flavour factor in salt debate
I have been ’Reporting In’ for about five years and, in that time, have seen a gradual evolution of technical issues and opportunities for the British baking sector.The link between food and health has grown from interest to, dare I say, near obsession. Every food product or ingredient now seems ...
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Top-end retailers to get a dose of Just Desserts
Yorkshire-based baker and patissier Just Desserts has launched several new products and hopes to tackle the top-end retail sector, following substantial investment at its Shipley factory.The firm took over a unit that became available next to its factory last year, and spent around £50k doubling the factory’s floor space to ...
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Food in the news
According to Verdict Consulting, the price of a traditional English breakfast has fallen for the first time in a year. For a family of four, it now costs an average of £16.01 compared to £16.06 last month.Research by Mintel’s Global Products Database suggests the economic downturn has not created a ...
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Mixing it up for foodservice
BakeMark has launched a new range of multi-purpose Craigmillar brand mixes for foodservice. The four-strong range available is: plain muffin & cake mix, chocolate muffin & cake mix, pizza & bread mix and scone mix, and is suitable for vegetarians.The mixes contain no hydrogenated fat, colours or flavours ...
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Tameside student wins Hovis scholarship
The Hovis Scholarship Award has been given to Gabrielle Baxter from Tameside College, who will get the chance to obtain first-hand bakery experience working with industry professionals.The scholarship, created by Rank Hovis, is awarded to one student a year for an all-expenses-paid learning experience. Baxter will start work at Southampton ...
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New sponsor joins NCW
Baking cases producer Chevler has joined Puratos as a sponsor of National Cupcake Week (NCW).Sales director Mike Wescomb said that the firm is proud to sponsor NCW and is happy to support all creative bakers taking part to develop new and innovative ideas."As the UK’s leading manufacturer of baking ...
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Research by Costa Coffee revealed that where people live not only affects their dialect but also how they taste food and drink. Taste preferences from 13,000 people in the UK’s major regions have been analysed by food psychologist Greg Tucker, with input from Andy Taylor, professor of flavour technology from ...
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Sell more this summer
How many times have you thought about how to increase your sales? Well here’s how: suggestive selling, up-selling, link selling and promotional selling.As retailers, you have so much power when it comes to the point of purchase with your customers. But you can increase your ’at counter sales’ by over ...
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== Bread ambitions ==Heatherslaw Bakery hopes to be making bread "on a big scale", following the success of its new 1lb Heatherslaw bloomer, made with ingredients sourced within a three-mile radius. Heatherslaw Bakery in Northumberland, which employs up to 40 people, had previously concentrated on producing cakes and ...
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== Reduced sat fat ads ==United Biscuits has launched an advertising campaign to highlight the achievement it has made in reducing saturated fat in its McVitie’s Digestives, Rich Tea and HobNobs brands by 50%. The campaign will run for eight weeks.== Bakery for sale ==East Lothian-based wholesale business Trusty Crust ...
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== Coffee shops need better food focus ==Seventy-seven per cent of executives asked said coffee shops need to enhance their food offering, according to Allegra Strategies UK’s Executive Insight Report, published last month. There are now only 890 food-focused coffee outlets in the UK, compared to 2,900 coffee-focused companies, it ...