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Coffee shop growth to stall, says analyst
Predictions of continued rapid growth in the branded coffee shop sector (see pgs 18-19) is at odds with falling disposable income levels, which will cause the market’s growth to stall, according to one analyst.Speaking at Caffè Culture, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ coffee shop sector specialist Stephen Broome said the growth of about 10%, ...
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Irwin’s nabs Scottish deal with Asda
Portadown-based Howell House, the cakes and biscuits division of Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has secured a £250,000 deal to export its Howell’s Handmade Jammy Joeys cakes to 47 Asda stores in Scotland.The deal is the first time that Howell House has exported its products and is expected to boost total ...
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BakeMark shares love of doughnuts
BakeMark UK is soon to launch a new doughnut product for the foodservice and retail markets. Its Do’Dotz is a single doughnut made up of four connected bite-sized iced sections. They can be marketed as sharing products, and are available in a thaw-and-serve case of 48 doughnuts."We have developed this ...
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BSB to tackle topical bakery issues at conference
The British Society of Baking’s (BSB) conference will take place on Tuesday 16 June at the Ardencote Manor Hotel, Claverdon, Warwick.Speakers include Chris Beaney, president of the National Association of Master Bakers; Joanna Bruce, ADM; Matthew May, Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees; and Bob Whitehurst, Cereform. Topics ...
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Giles Foods to expand sweet bakery plant
Giles Foods plans to strengthen its position in the sweet bakery market by increasing space at its Warminster factory by a third.A new 6,550sq ft unit will be added to the bakery, which produces Danish pastries, croissants, tarts and buns for supermarket ISBs and foodservice distributors, following a £1.5m equipment ...
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Tesco bakery boss looks to put customers first
Scott Clarke, Tesco category director of bakery, stressed the retailer’s strategy to put the customer first, at the FoB conference. Coming from a background of bakery at RHM, he said his first five months at Tesco had "felt like a lifetime". He commented: "It is an industry ...
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Continental bakery firm plans rapid development
Continental bakery retail concept Belgique is planning a three-year period of growth, which will take it from eight to 25 outlets by 2012.The Essex-based chain secured the backing of major Belgian flour and frozen bakery supplier La Lorraine Bakery Group, which acquired a 50% stake in the business. Belgique plans ...
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Consumer watch Food-to-go boundaries blur
The blurring between foodservice and traditional retail continues unabated. Forty-nine per cent of consumers who buy food- or drink-to-go now choose a convenience store, the latest IGD research reveals. Most of these purchases are chilled or ambient, rather than hot/warm, but it shows you how far the convenience industry ...
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New brand brings taste of Switzerland to the UK
Products from newly launched brand Swiss Bakery could hit the shelves before the summer is out, following presentations and a successful stand at Caffè Culture, said marketing and sales director Gerry O’Reilly.Parent company Private & Brand, based in Belfast, supplies retail and foodservice markets in the UK and Ireland. Realising ...
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McCambridge sells off ’non-core’ businesses
McCambridge has sold off five bakeries in its ’niche’ division to D&G Food Group - a company newly created by former Roberts Bakery chairman Graham March.The five bakeries, which were acquired when Irish bakery group McCambridge bought cake firm Inter Link from administration in 2007, make breads, cakes, pies ...
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Marshfield focuses on impulse buys
Wiltshire-based Marshfield Bakery launched its new mini display box at the recent Caffè Culture show.Containing 50 individually wrapped mini bars, the box contains a mix of 12 different varieties, including Caramel Shortbread and Traditional Flapjack through to Honeycomb Tiffin and Strawberry Shortbread."Cafés and shops could see the benefit of placing ...
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Caffè Culture snapshot
== Artisan style ==Artisan Biscuits trialled its new cookie concept at Caffè Culture. Under The Fine Cookie Co brand the American-style chewy cookies will be available in Rainbow Nation, Blueberry Hill, Butterscotch On the Rocks, Big Apple and Chocolate Box Brownie varieties. The firm hopes they will fill the cookie ...
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Organic cake for kids
Organic bakery Honeyrose launched two new ranges at Caffè Culture last week - Honeyrose Kids and Honeyrose Minis. MD Lisa Rose said the bakery saw a gap in the market for the ranges. "It is the first organic cake range developed specifically for kids, that we are aware of in ...
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Chandley’s green move
Oven manufacturer Thomas Chandley has introduced a more environmentally focused rack oven. The model has been enhanced to make it run more efficiently, saving energy usage.Engineers have reduced the connected load of the conventional rack oven from 39kW to 33kW. The ovens have also been modified to incorporate more ...
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Hollands chooses local cheese for pies
Hollands Pies has launched its new cheese and onion pie recipe, using mature cheese from the award-winning Dew Lay Creamery in Garstang. The new recipe has been developed using Holland’s ’Pie Panel’ of amateur pie tasters. The manufacturer says the pie reflects consumers’ growing desire for local provenance, with the ...
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Grain D’Or targets coffee shops with new ranges
London-based Grain D’Or has launched two coffee shop brands for pastries and muffins, which it hopes will cross over to supermarket shelves.Part of the bakery group that includes Fletchers, Kara Foodservice and specialist bread company LBD, Grain D’Or unveiled the North West 10 Bakery pastry brand and New England ...
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National Cupcake Week competition launched
British Baker is delighted to announce the launch of a cupcake cake-off competition in the run up to National Cupcake Week, which takes place from 14-19 September.
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Reporting in Thought-provoking conference
Last week saw the Federation of Bakers’ annual conference and, once again, it proved to be poignant and thought-provoking (see pg 8). John Cridland from the CBI set the scene with an open and honest report on the recession, predicting that recovery will not start until the spring of 2010, ...
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Panel debates salt and obesity
A panel discussion at the FoB conference, chaired by Julian Hunt of the Food and Drink Federation, touched on the issue of salt.Paul Molyneux, quality director of Hovis, said that salt had been reduced by 30% since 2000. But Dr Susan Jebb disputed the figure and said there was ...
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Lavazza delivers the ’perfect’ espresso
Lavazza Coffee has launched a capsule system called Lavazza Blue. Guaranteed by the company to deliver "the perfect Italian espresso every time with no compromise on flavour or body", Lavazza Blue claims to turn every user into a real "cappuccinatore".The system comprises a Lavazza Blue machine and ...