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Last chance to enter Baking Industry Awards
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the Baking Industry Awards 2008, get those forms in before it’s too late! The deadline has been extended until 23 May, so luckily you’ve got another week to enter. The awards recognise the hard work and passion of everyone involved in the ...
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Norwich’s Metfield bakery opens first shop
Norwich-based organic craft baker Metfield is planning to open a small chain of shops.Owner Stuart Oetzmann told British Baker that he had just bought the company’s first retail outlet in Norwich. The shop has a delicatessan, an on-site kitchen with full production facilities and there are plans to install a ...
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Sandwich awards to recognise best in the field
This year’s annual British Sandwich Industry Awards are taking place on 15 May at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. The Sammies feature 12 different awards, including four sub-categories for British Sandwich Designer of the Year. Other awards include Bakery Sandwich Shop, Independent Sandwich Bar and New Sandwich of the ...
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Sandwich awards to recognise best in industry
This year’s annual British Sandwich Industry Awards are taking place on 15 May at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. The Sammies feature 12 different awards, including four sub-categories for British Sandwich Designer of the Year. Other awards include Bakery Sandwich Shop, Independent Sandwich Bar and New Sandwich of the ...
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Hollands Craft Bakery
We wish to make it clear that in the report in our issue of 4th Aprilabout the use by Hollands Craft Bakery of flour from Poland we did notmean to suggest that this flour was in any way inferior in quality tothat produced by UK mills and regret any inference ...
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Grahams Bakery strikes deal with Sainsbury’s
Grahams Home Bakery in Dromore, Co Down, has signed a lucrative deal to supply cake and bun lines to 10 Sainsbury’s stores in Northern Ireland.The deal, estimated to be worth £200,000 a year, will see the family-run bakery supplying its traditional range of cakes, as well as a new line ...
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Good Egg awards revealed
Country Style Foods was one of the winners of a Good Egg 2008 award, announced at a London ceremony on 29 April. The awards recognise companies that make a difference to the welfare of hens by switching to free-range. The awards were split into four sections – food retail, food ...
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Tindale & Stanton goes into administration
Bakery supplier Tindale & Stanton has gone into administration. The County-Durham based baker – which supplies savoury products to the supermarkets and savouries, breads and confectionery to smaller operators – has been badly hit by difficult trading conditions and increasing costs, according to administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers. Almost 300 workers are employed within Tindale & Stanton’s various sites – it has a savoury manufacturing plant at Burnopfield, breadmaking factory at Gateshead and two van distribution sites. The future of those jobs is currently uncertain. A spokeswoman for PWC told British Baker that it is hoping to sell the business as a going concern within the next week.
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Patisserie Valerie: Middle Eastern push
Patisserie Valerie is to franchise its offering to overseas markets following a deal that has established a franchise agent in the Middle East.The first Middle Eastern store will appear next year, followed by “an aggressive roll-out of 15 stores in three years,” said Paul May, MD of Patisserie Holdings, part ...
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60-second sales pitch
So, what are Butter Buds?Butter Buds are natural dairy concentrates that can either replace butter, cream, cheese, olive oil and cocoa butter without loss of flavour, richness or quality.Why are they so special?They’re created from actual butter, cream etc, so they deliver an authentic dairy flavour with either a natural ...
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Allinson revamped as ABF posts positive results
Following strong results from parent company Associated British Foods (ABF), Allied Bakeries is relaunching the Allinson brown bread range with new branding, packaging and products.ABF posted a 5% rise in profits worth £282m in the 24 weeks to March 1, thanks to an improved showing from Allied, as well as ...
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Steering group to lead on Skills Academy project
A steering committee for the formation of a National Skills Academy for bakery has been formed, made up of 12 representatives across bakery, supply and industry associations.Justine Fosh, director of the National Skills Academy of Food & Drink Manufacturing, which is helping to set up the academy, described the response ...
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Sign up now on British Baker’s website - [http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk] - for the latest industry news, delivered to your in-box once a week. As well as a weekly email update, the free service will also send you top news stories as they break. The website has also been revamped and will ...
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Arabian flavour for Coffee Republic
Coffee Republic is moving into the Saudi Arabian market. The company has signed a deal with Al Hadaf International trading company for the granting of franchise rights across the country.In the UK, it has also expanded its franchise with the opening of a café in the Pavillion Retail Park, Strabane, ...
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Premier to sell Avana rumour
Premier Foods has reportedly put its cakes and chilled desserts company Avana Bakeries up for sale.According to an article in The Telegraph, Premier has appointed NM Rothschild to assist with the sale of the Newport-based company, which is a major supplier of own-label products to Marks & Spencer.Premier ...
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Caribbean bakeries face rising flour costs as global wheat prices escalate
Bakery businesses across the Caribbean are braced for further price rises after Barbados and Jamaica became the latest nations to see the cost of flour rise by at least 30%.In Barbados the government had given a (BBD)$501,000 (£125,000) emergency subsidy to ease the impact of increases in world wheat prices ...
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Torquay-based Hallett’s Bakers
says it has made the largest ever scone. The scone weighed 26kg - 700 times bigger than a standard one. Once the scone had cooled, it was topped with 12.5kg of clotted cream and 10kg of strawberry jam, then served to more than 300 people attending a cream tea festival ...
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NewsNorthern Irish bakery sponsors tournament
Irwins bakery is sponsoring Gaelic football tournament St Gall’s May Day Invitational on May 5.The competition will see schoolchildren from Louth joining together with other counties to play in the 10-a-side tournament at St Gall’s GAC, Milltown in Northern Ireland.The event, which is in its 18th year, will involve 350 ...
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Log on to Bakery School to supplement skills gap
An online training service for bakery staff has attracted interest from more than 300 companies and individuals.The Bakery School - which will launch later this month at [http://www.thebakeryschool.com] - is a modular, interactive web-based course for bakery staff with little or no formal training.The course has been set up by ...
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A Birmingham bakery
has bought three new ovens after receiving a £46,000 grant from Advantage West Midlands. With the grant, the 109-year-old Lewis’s Bakery in Garrets Green, Birmingham, has diversified production, added four new jobs to up the workforce to 15 and increased baking capacity by around 25%. Managing director Simon Lewis has ...