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Tesco’s part-baked bread sales soar
Tesco’s sales of part-baked bread have soared by 47% in the past year.And the supermarket giant has hinted that it may in future offer part-baked versions of all its bakery products.Tesco said sales had been so strong that it has doubled its range to 14 part-baked products “with more to ...
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BSB conference programme revealed
The British Society of Baking is to hold its autumn conference on the 6 and 7 October at the Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, Coventry.The event will include the AGM, dinner and entertainment on the Monday evening and a conference the following day.Conference speakers include David Smart from Greenhalgh’s, who will ...
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Tate & Lyle opens €4m innovation centre
Ingredients giant Tate & Lyle (T&L) has opened an innovation centre in Lille, France. The €4m centre, opened on 19 September, will focus on developing health and nutrition products, with laboratories and testing faciities open to T&L’s customers. Bakery and food manufacturers are among those who will be able to use T&L’s pilot laboratory, allowing them to test out systems, products and processes on a small scale before upscaling to a plant operation. T&L’s research and development team will develop new ingredients in the field of "wellness and nutrition", as well as exploring novel applications for its current range of functional food ingredients. Vice-president of sales and marketing EMEA, James Blunt, said the centre "will not only provide a huge boost to the development of our own value-added ingredient product range, but will also be extremely valuable to our customers as they refine and perfect their own products. "Our research shows that consumers in Europe are becoming more conscious of having a healthy, balanced diet. We are confident that this facility will be one of the principle hubs in the industry for the development of health and wellness ingredients across a range of applications." On the same day, T&L revealed it will also open a new Polydextrose production line at its Koog plant in the Netherlands. The facility will be the first of its kind in Europe, with the capacity to manufacture a range of different soluble fibres, with applications in a range of food and drinks. T&L’s range includes texturants, sweeteners and dietary fibre brands.
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Business building workshop at Café+
Visitors to Café+, the café, sandwich and coffee shop show organised by British Baker’s publisher William Reed Business Media (WRBM), will benefit from top business-building advice in an exclusive seminar. Shopper research retail consultancy him! will run a workshop which will help show attendees exploit all the opportunities available to them.
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Piero Scacco scoops the ultimate accolade at BIA
At Monday night’s Baking Industry Awards, Piero Scacco won the coveted Baker of the Year title.Sponsored by Vandemoortele, the accolade was presented to Scacco in front of a packed room of more than 800 members of the baking industry, assembled at London’s Grosvenor House hotel for the biggest annual ...
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Industry awaits verdict on wheat after wet season
After a particularly wet August and September, the milling and baking industries are waiting to see how the weather has affected the quality of UK wheat.Alex Waugh, director general of UK flour milling trade body nabim, said yield was lower than expectations, but the main concern is the quality ...
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Police investigate, after De Gustibus bakery is destroyed by blaze
De Gustibus’ Oxfordshire bakery has been destroyed in a fire.The blaze ripped through the artisan baker’s Abingdon plant on the night of 10 September, damaging most of the building before firefighters arrived. Owner Dan Schickentanz said: "Only the walls are left standing - the place is completely ...
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Campden & Chorleywood joins forces with brewing research firm
Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA) and Brewing Research Inter-national (BRI) have merged to form Campden BRI, a combined resource for the food and drink industry.The merger brings together 380 staff, and offers a wide range of research and development, technical services, analysis and training activities to the ...
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BB captures NA deal for Review pages
British Baker is pleased to announce that, from January 2009, it will publish the Bakers’ Review, the official journal of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA), in a special section within the magazine.Gill Brooks-Lonican, chief executive of the NA, said she was "delighted to have secured this agreement with ...
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Garlic bread line expanded
La Pizza Company is offering its frozen part-baked Tear & Share Garlic Bread in new flavours. They are now available in cajun garlic, parmesan & black pepper and roasted red onion varieties, and are made using real garlic butter."We sprinkle it with Italian herbs and coat it with an additional ...
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Dawn brings in Energy Muffin
A new Breakfast Energy Muffin has been launched by Dawn Foods, aimed at the café sector. The American-style bakery product is made with carrots, raisins, pumpkin seeds, dates, apricots and cranberries, to provide breakfast on-the-go or a coffee accompaniment."Out-of-home eating continues to increase, with breakfast on-the-go showing tremendous growth, and ...
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Report reveals growth potential for indie cafés
The independent coffee shop market is far from saturated, with plenty of potential for future growth, according to the latest research from Allegra Strategies.In a survey of more than 200 owners and operators of independent coffee shops in the UK, Allegra found evidence of a growing café culture, with ...
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Costa enjoys positive sales results
Costa Coffee’s sales have continued to rise over the past six months - up 23.6% in the half-year to 14 August. In its interim statement, parent company Whitbread said the brand had demonstrated "good growth", with like-for-likes up 3.7%.Half-year results will be published on 14 October. Whitbread - which also ...
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Price of croissants nearly doubled, finds survey
The retail price of packaged croissants has almost doubled in the last six months, according to the latest price data from Verdict Research.The survey found that, of all retail products, the price of four-packs of croissants rose the most steeply - by 47.4% from January to August this ...
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Kellogg in snacks deal
US-based Kellogg Company, in Michigan, is expanding its capacity, after acquiring the assets of IndyBake Products LLC and Brownie Products, a privately- held contract manufacturing business.IndyBake and Brownie Products produce cracker, cookie and frozen dough items at two manufacturing sites, located in Seelyville, Indiana and Gardner, Illinois. These ...
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Planglow is just the ticket for delis
Planglow has launched its new Deli Tickets, suitable for salad bars, deli counters and shelf edges. They are pre-laminated and no cutting is required; they can also be used repeatedly.The tickets are sold in boxes of 100 and can be overprinted using Planglow’s LabelLogic software and a standard inkjet or ...
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Fairings well in France
Furniss of Cornwall is now selling its Cornish Fairings biscuits in France. The biscuits will be hitting the shelves of Le Comptoir Irlandais stores across the country in its three varieties - orange and lemon, apple and cinnamon and stem ginger and honey - alongside its Cornish Gingerbread."Cornwall is being ...
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Premier in fiendish form
Premier Foods is launching limited-edition Mr Kipling Fiendish Fancies for Halloween. A variation on its popular French Fancy, the new cakes will have orange and black icing and Halloween-themed packaging."This variant of the popular French Fancy will help retailers maximise their seasonal sales," said Dan Ince, head of ...
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Oz pudding firm looks to UK growth
Australian dessert maker, Pudding Lane, has high hopes for expansion in the UK, after winning a one-star gold award for its Macadamia and Brandy Pudding at the Great Taste Awards.The company, which only sent out its first shipment to the UK for Christmas 2007, plans to send six to eight ...
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International Richemont gathering
The British Richemont Club will host a three-day meeting of international members from 27 to 29 September.British president Dawn van Rensburg of Gerrards Confec-tioners of North Wales, together with John Slattery of Manchester-based Slattery Patissier & Chocolatier and Liz Davidson of Classic Celebration Cake of Stockport have spent two ...