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Simple Simon says stock up for Christmas
Simple Simon’s Perfect Pies has announced its pie range for the Christmas season.Festive fillings include: strips of Gressingham duck breast with black cherry & port wine sauce; turkey fillets with sage & white wine sauce with fresh cranberries; honeyed venison collops, and organic Aberdeen Angus beef with wild mushrooms ...
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Real Good Food Co sees sales dip
The Real Good Food Company’s interim results saw total group sales dip 8% to £104m in the six months to 30 June. Overall, the group made a pre-tax loss of £1.59m in a period of "difficult trading conditions".Sales at its baking ingredients division Renshaw grew 13% to £14.3m, but operating ...
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Coca-Cola hooks up to the joy of text
Coca-Cola Great Britain has launched a media portal - the Diet Coke Silver Room, in a bid to appeal to a new generation of diet coke drinkers.Developed by mobile specialist agency Marvellous, it will enable people to text SILVER to 82233 in order to receive celebrity gossip, plus the best ...
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Festive fare from Delice
Foodservice solutions provider, Delice de France, is offering a new range of Christmas bakery goods for the approaching festive season. The range consists of 12 new products, including five varieties of mince pie; a spiced fruit & mini cherry bite; cranberry & orange mini loaf cake; winter spiced muffin; ...
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Eco-friendly Quangoff
Quangoff Spring Water Systems will be highlighting its green initiatives at the show, and demonstrating how to serve chilled still and sparkling natural spring water, with minimal environmental impact.Its natural spring water is delivered from four UK spring sources in 20-litre recyclable bags inside boxes, eliminating a need for plastic ...
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Roll up for the fun of the Fair
Bakers’ Fair North, sponsored by Norbake, will be held at the spectacular Sheffield Don Valley Stadium on 19 October. It’s free to get in and everyone who visits is guaranteed a great Sunday out.Last year’s event, which took place in Bolton, pulled in 400 bakery and food-to-go retailers from across ...
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FFI unveils two new varieties, to be Fair
Coffee company FFI is launching Fair Ground, a range of specially- selected coffees available in two varieties - Fairtrade gold roast & ground coffee, and Fairtrade espresso coffee beans.The launch comes after the success of its Fair Instant range, which has seen over £170,000 raised over the past ...
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Reporting in
== Jim Winship ==director, British Sandwich AssociationWhile the uncertainties of the past few weeks may be causing doom and gloom in the city, the bakers and sandwich industry should be able to derive some positives, not least with the city slickers having to forego corporate lunches in favour of ...
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Tipped for the top
It was an evening to celebrate! Over 800 of the top bakers and confectioners, together with ingredients and equipment suppliers gathered to enjoy an evening of fun.It all began with a champagne reception, sponsored by Warbur-tons, then everyone was called to dinner in the glittering Great Room. After the welcome ...
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Warburtons launches TV ad campaign
Warburtons’ latest TV ad campaign will air for the first time this Saturday (4 October) on satellite and terrestrial TV.The 60-second ad will describe Warburtons as "Britain’s favourite family baker", depicting a businessman visiting Britain for the first time. Shorter, 10-second clips will support the minute-long ad, while press ads ...
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Former Sayers bakery burns down
The former Sayers Bakery in Norris Green, Liverpool was severely damaged by fire on Sunday 28 September in a suspected arson attack. Firefighters arrived at the bakery just after 8pm and it took thirteen fire crews to control the flames. Police were forced to seal off the road and neighbouring ...
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NAMB plans action group for craft sector
The National Associations of Master Bakers (NAMB) is hoping to create an ‘action group’ with the hope of redressing certain perceptions of the craft baking industry. A statement from the NAMB said: “In recent years the craft bakery sector has come under pressure from many fronts. This has led to many companies struggling and a poor perception of the industry to customers, government and potential employees.”
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BSB autumn conference
The British Society of Baking’s Autumn conference is to be held on 6 and 7 October at Coombe Abbey Hotel in Binley, Coventry. The programme of events includes the Annual General Meeting on Monday 6 at 5pm. This will be followed by a drinks reception at 7.30pm and dinner at ...
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Café+ show to boost your business
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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Finsbury prelims reveal strong growth
All-round bakery manufacturer Finsbury Foods’ has experienced a group revenue increase of 53.9% to £169 million. The preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2008 show the company has achieved strong growth in each of its subsidiaries with like for like sales up 13%. Adjusted pre-tax profit stood at £7.7 million compared to £4.6 million last year.
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Tesco to sell non-standard loaves
Tesco is introducing three loaves in non-standard sizes ahead of anticipated changes to EU laws.The supermarket giant will sell a 300g loaf aimed at single households, a family-sized "weekender" loaf of 1,000g and a 600g loaf for small families.Current laws stipulate bread sold in the UK above 300g must be ...
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Low-cost range for Tesco
Tesco is hoping for a slice of the action in the discount store market with a new low-cost range, to include bakery products. The supermarket undertook research earlier this summer, quizzing 20,000 people and found that UK consumers’ top concern is price. In response to this Tesco is aim to ...
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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.