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Costa moves to sustainable sourcing
Costa Coffee is to source its entire coffee supply from sustainable farms. From September 2008, at least 30% of the coffee used in Costa’s Mocha Italia blend – which forms the base of its coffee drinks – will come from Rainforest Alliance certified sources. It will then gradually work towards a 100% sustainable sourcing policy.
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Finsbury Foods ’Gluten-Free’ Acquisition
The Finsbury Food Group has strengthened its operations in the ‘free- from’ gluten market with the £8.9 million acquisition of Yorkshire Farm Bakery (YFB) and A&P Foods.YFB is a major manufacturer of gluten-free breads as well as rolls and cakes and is located on a freehold site in ...
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Finsbury buys Yorkshire Farm Bakery
The Finsbury Food Group has strengthened its operations in the ‘free-from’ gluten market with the £8.9 million acquisition of Yorkshire Farm Bakery (YFB) and A&P Foods.YFB is a major manufacturer of gluten-free breads as well as rolls and cakes and is located on a freehold site in Hull. A&P shares ...
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Greggs names new chief exec
Greggs has appointed Ken McMeikan – currently retail director at Sainsbury’s – to be chief executive of the group. He will join the board of the bakery giant on June 1.Sir Michael Darrington will retire at the end of July after 24 years as managing director of Greggs but will ...
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Greggs names new chief exec
Greggs has appointed Ken McMeikan – currently retail director at Sainsbury’s – to be chief executive of the group. He will join the board of the bakery giant on June 1.Sir Michael Darrington will retire at the end of July after 24 years as managing director of Greggs but will ...
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Greggs names new chief exec
Greggs has appointed Ken McMeikan – currently retail director at Sainsbury’s – to be chief executive of the group. He will join the board of the bakery giant on June 1.Sir Michael Darrington will retire at the end of July after 24 years as managing director of Greggs but will ...
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RHM flour price increase
Rank Hovis, the miller, has announced price rises in flour effectivefrom April 7 of £34.38 per tonne (55p per 16k bag). Sales and Marketingdirector Jon Tanner said that the last increase was in early Octoberand that this latest increase is necessary because of “unrelentingrises in the price of domestic and ...
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RHM flour increase
Rank Hovis, the miller, has announced price rises in flour effectivefrom April 7 of £34.38 per tonne (55p per 16k bag). Sales and Marketingdirector Jon Tanner said that the last increase was in early Octoberand that this latest increase is necessary because of “unrelentingrises in the price of domestic and ...
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O’Briens to establish 15 more units
Sandwich bar and coffee chain O’Briens plans to open a further 15 franchise units by the end of this year, with a focus on north- east England and the Midlands.Franchise director Paul Stanton said that major cities such as Newcastle still had "massive potential" for further expansion. The move ...
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Greggs plans £20m spend in the north west
Greggs has unveiled plans to spend £20 million in the north west, with a new bakery and shops. Some of the shops will be located at out-of-town retail parks and one will be built at Manchester Airport to tap into changing customer demands.The new £15m bakery at Openshaw, east Manchester, ...
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Lucozade spends £8m on latest sports sector drive
Lucozade Sport will be supported with an £8 million TV and press campaign this year.The push - by brand owner GlaxoSmithKline - will highlight the soft drink’s links with sport. It will kick off with TV advertisements on sports channels including Sky Sports. Press, radio, outdoor and digital ads ...
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Mixer adds a delicate touch
Robot Coupe has introduced an R-Mix function as standard on a number of the machines in its vertical cutter mixer range. R-Mix - meaning reverse-mixing - makes it possible to add delicate foodstuffs such as chopped dried fruit or chocolate pieces to a processed mix such as dough, while keeping ...
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Creditors await FBBM outcome
Creditors of the Fabulous Bakin’ Boys Manufacturing (FBBM) are still in limbo, waiting to see if they will get any of the money owed from the collapsed firm.Fabulous Bakin’ Boys Manu-facturing went into administration last December with debts of £3.4 million. Administrators BDO Stoy Hayward (BDO) then sold the business ...
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Call us today for your Awards entry forms
With the deadline now extended to 16 May, there is still time to get your entries in for this year’s Baking Industry Awards.Entry forms are available from Stephanie Smallwood, tel: 01293 610433 or e-mail: stephanie.smallwood@william-reed.co.uk.There are 11 categories, championing the achievements of all aspects of the industry, with awards for ...
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Select Bag detection
Select Bag Sealers (SBS), which manufactures and supplies tape bag sealers, has launched the high-speed Flexi-Sealer. The sealer can cater for different product widths and incorporates a no-seal detector which, when coupled with the standard tape run-out detector, ensures that any potentially unsealed products, due to bagger misfeeds, are caught.RRP: ...
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Gaza bakers suffer under Israeli restrictions
Bakers in Gaza went on strike last week after the ruling Hamas organisation refused to let them put up bread prices to cope with a shortage of goods, resulting from restrictions imposed by Israel. A 3kg bag of pitta bread sells for $2.30 and bakeries want to increase it to ...
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Greenhalgh’s Craft Bakery
has launched a fruit flapjack into shops across north-west England to raise money for its 2008 Local Hero campaign. For each flapjack sold, Greenhalgh’s will give 5p to a fund that will help several charities in the region. The first of these charities, The Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team, helped ...
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Bakery to benefit from huge Tameside spend
The £90 million rebuilding of Tameside College will herald an exciting period of growth for the bakery department, with more students, even better equipment and closer links with schools and employers, said head of food and hospitality studies Chris Massey.He told British Baker that the bakery facilities had only recently ...
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Warburtons graduate plans future in baking
Susina Maiden, 17, is already mapping out her career path to launch her own bakery business in Solihull, after graduating from Warburtons Young Bakers Aca-demy. After completing a three- month course at the academy at the University College of Bir-mingham, she has now embarked on an NVQ Level One ...