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Mono stages display day
Swansea-based machinery firm Mono Equipment hosted an open day at Miller’s Vanguard’s Training facility in Bury earlier this month, to display the latest machinery, designed to increase efficiency, productivity and profit. Among the exhibitors were Mono Equipment, Bakon Food Equipment and Rondo Doge. Mono was promoting its ...
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Mecaplastic seals deal
Mecaplastic offers a range of sandwich filling and sealing machines, enabling businesses to select the right capacity for their requirements. Size adjustments can also be made on Mecaplastic cardboard sandwich-pack filling machines simply and quickly. The Mecapack 470 and 700 models enable automatic simultaneous adjustment in just 30 seconds. ...
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Dibas decks out its offer
Dibas is promoting its deck oven for establishments that bake-off snacks and pastries, but which also want to serve pizzas as part of their offering. The EBO Deck Oven, manufactured by Dibas, is distributed in the UK by CBES Food Systems. It allows up to three baking chambers to be ...
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Sollich keeps an even temper
Sollich is promoting the Minitemper 100 FD to add real chocolate to your product, for bakers aiming to enhance sales appeal and profitability. Sollich said it was important to use real chocolate, despite the fact the cocoa butter present makes it more challenging to handle compared to compound chocolate. "Real ...
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Morrisons to extend local flour scheme
Morrisons plans to extend a regional scheme, selling bread made from flour milled in the local area. Bakery trading manager Andy Clegg said the concept had worked well in East Anglia, Yorkshire and Wessex, and that stores in other parts of the country would launch locally milled bread later this ...
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McCambridge site faces an uncertain future
The future of McCambridge’s Bradford bakery is in doubt as bosses consider a proposal to close the cake manufacturing site at Thornton Road. The McCambridge Group has met with the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and has entered a period of formal consultation, expected to last a minimum ...
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Finsbury sees investments hit profit line
Finsbury Foods’ profit has taken a severe hit, with adjusted pre-tax profit down 45% to £1.8m for the six months to 31 December 2008. Pre-tax profit stood at £0.2m compared to £1.6m in 2008, despite increasing sales in its bread and free-from divisions. The cakes, breads and morning goods manufacturer ...
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Jus-Rol takes new shapes
Jus-Rol is expanding its frozen pastry shapes range with the launch of a new shortcrust oval. The company is promoting the new shape as a convenient way to top pies, but it can also be used as an individual pie base. The new shapes are available in 14cm x 11cm ...
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Seeds pricing
Pine nuts: Prices have remained firm since our last report and are now trading some 15% higher than in December. Apart from the volatile currency, availability from China this season seems very sporadic, with a reduced supply to China from Russia and Siberia. Pumpkin seeds: These have also stayed firm ...
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Imports of macadamia nuts are experiencing year-on-year growth, according to the latest figures published, with the baking industry also seeing increased use of the nut. In 2008, macadamia nut imports rose by 45%, from 500 to 737 tonnes. However, consumption of these nuts is thought to be much higher, as ...
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Yazoo shake-up
Milkshake brand Yazoo has unveiled a new £3.5m television and outdoor advertising campaign, which forms part of the brand’s ongoing mission to drive growth in the UK flavoured milk category. Manufactured by FrieslandCampina, the Yazoo brand has been repositioned to appeal more to adults, alongside its core audience of mums ...
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In Short
== Cupcakes sponsor == British Baker is proud to announce that ingredients supplier Puratos is to be a sponsor of National Cupcake Week. The week-long celebration runs from 14-19 September 2009, and is designed to boost bakers’ profits through the sale of cupcakes, as well as celebrating the ...
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Ireland holds off on folic acid fortification
Ireland’s food safety body has advised against the mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid.The implementation group on folic acid fortification said there would be no benefit to public health, because food manufacturers were now adding it to dairy spreads, fruit juices, milk, yoghurts, soups and cereal bars.England’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) now has the results of two studies looking at the effect of folic acid on cancer and heart disease, and is likely to make its recommendation following a committee meeting in June. It had previously agreed flour should be fortified, before being encouraged by the chief medical officer to consider more studies.
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Finsbury’s profit is hit hard
Finsbury Foods’ profit has taken a severe hit, with adjusted pre-tax profit down 45% to £1.8m for the six months to 31 December 2008. Pre-tax profit stood at £0.2m compared to £1.6m in 2008, despite increasing sales in its bread and free-from divisions.
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Canada Bread drops inquiry
Canada Bread Company, the parent company of the UK’s biggest bagel supplier Maple Leaf Bakery, will take no further action following an internal investigation into allegations that an employee at its UK bakery operations may have sought to influence the pricing of a competitor. Lynda Kuhn, senior vice president, communications and consumer affairs, told British Baker that initial allegations made in a tabloid newspaper in December 2008 involving The Bagel Group - a company Maple Leaf had previously been in talks with to acquire - were unfounded and that no evidence had been supplied to substantiate the claims, despite requests.
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Elisabeth the Chef cuts cartoon cake licence deal
Cake and dessert supplier Elisabeth the Chef has added a number of new cartoon character licences to its portfolio. Batman – in a new bright cartoon format - joins the line-up in a bid to capitalise on a new light-hearted animated series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which hits TV screens at the end of March.
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Proper Cornish turns up the heat
A pastie-maker is to become the first UK food firm to heat water using its food waste. Proper Cornish Food Company has spent £90,000 on a BioNova biodigestion plant – a cutting-edge system that transforms waste into a fuel – which will eventually power the hot water system in its ...
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Uncertain future for McCambridge’s Bradford site
The future of McCambridge’s Bradford bakery is in doubt as bosses consider a proposal to close the cake manufacturing site at Thornton Road. The McCambridge Group has met with the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and has entered a period of formal consultation, which is expected to last ...
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Register for National Doughnut Week on new website
A new website has been launched for this year’s National Doughnut Week, which offers bakers the chance to increase profits and raise money for charity from the sale of doughnuts. Running from 9-16 May, the week, sponsored by BakeMark, raises money for the charity The Children’s Trust, which provides specific care and therapy for children with multiple disabilities.