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n Ingredients supplier Mayfair Foods has acquired Hall Farm Merchants, a dried fruit business, with immediate effect. "We feel the acquisition of Hall Farm Merchants’ business fits the dynamics of Mayfair Foods," said a spokesperson for the company, who added that it was looking to make further acquisitions.n ...
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BSB takes conference to NEC
This spring’s British Society of Baking (BSB) Conference is at the Baking Industry Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham. There is a gourmet dinner from 6.30pm on Monday, 7 April. Rooms can be booked at the Holiday Inn by the BSB.Tuesday registration is at 8.30am. Talks start at 9.20am, with the ...
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TV ’cake-off’
Lightbody Cakes, part of the Finsbury Food Group, is playing host to a BBC children’s show called Beat the Boss.In the show, a group of three children pitched their talent against three business professionals to come up with a new birthday cake for the children’s market. The two teams worked ...
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Competition Commission report gets mixed reception
After spending almost two years investigating the grocery sector, the Competition Commission published its latest report on February 15. This is an interim report, ahead of its final report which is due before May. Supermarkets and other interested parties will be lobbying hard between now and then.The Commission had earlier ...
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Dunkin’ Donuts ups its toasties
Bakery chain Dunkin’ Donuts is to launch a new Oven-Toasted menu in the US, in a bid to claim a share of the toasted sandwich market.The flatbread sandwiches, toasted throughout the day, will come in three flavours. Personal Pizzas, meaning that consumers can choose their own toppings, will also appear ...
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Firkins raises funds for youth
Midlands bakery firm Firkins has adopted youth homelessness charity St Basils as a focus for 2008. St Basils has 23 residential projects in the Birmingham area for 16- to 25-year-olds.St Basils’ fundraising officer Georgia Blackwood said that collection boxes have gone into all of Firkins’ 56 shops, with the aim ...
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A free glide
Philip Gittens, a wholesale baker in Hull, who runs the Crusty Cob, has recently launched his latest invention after receiving a £25,000 European grant.The castors, called Gliderz, were invented after his wife had trouble moving heavy tables. "The only way my wife could clean was to take everything off the ...
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Green Watch
New research from business analyst Mintel claims that 84% of British adults look at packaging to see its recycling credentials.This figure suggests that recycling credentials are more important to a consumer than fat, salt and calorie content. According to Mintel, in the UK, 80% of adults look at salt ...
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Greencore weathers tough trading period
Greencore Group, the Irish maker of sandwiches and malt, has had a tough year due to unseasonal summer weather, consumer slowdown, strong raw material inflation and a weak exchange rate, said chairman Ned Sullivan.The convenience foods division, including sandwiches, quiche, cakes and desserts, performed well in the first ...
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Sayers updates its image and offering
North-west bakery chain Sayers unveiled its new look on Wed-nesday after revamping its image and menu.Trading hours will also be extended to Sundays in some of the shops and new breads, such as a multi-seed bloomer and a milk loaf, will be introduced."Over the coming weeks, customers will see ...
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Legislation watch
Bakery businesses are being urged to sign an online petition against the new family business tax.The e-petition is now among the top 50 most-signed petitions on the Number 10 website, with over 6,000 signatures, claims Professional Contractors Group (PCG), which represents the UK’s freelancers.In 2007, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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Reporting in
Bakers are facing high raw material, ingredients and energy costs, and could do without the government’s plans to increase fuel duty by a further 2p per litre from 1 April.Representatives of the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on ...
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Sandwich show
The Great Yorkshire Sandwich, Snack and Mobile Show will take place on 21 and 22 May at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley. Aimed specifically at the ’grab and go’ sector, the show has over 40 stands.Exhibitors include savoury suppliers, sandwich filling producers, business insurance specialists, catering equipment and delivery vehicle manufacturers, ...
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viewpoint
Would you welcome an ombudsman to police the relationship between supermarkets and suppliers (pgs 5 and 14-15)?Do you think the same as Dave Brooks of Finsbury Foods who says, "Suppliers need to take responsibility for themselves"? Or do you side more with another bakery manufacturer, who has to remain anonymous, ...
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Apr–May 1933: Mottos of the week
* Things that are not of value singly are useful collectively * How often things happen by chance, which you would not dare to hope for * He cracks the nut, but who wishes to have the kernel out of the nut? * What is there of beauty in the ...
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International activity
Danish ingredients firm Danisco has signed an agreement for the acquisition of shares in UK-based emulsifiers producer Abitec. The acquisition is conditional upon the approval of the appropriate competition authorities. A spokesman for Abitec said this could take anywhere from eight weeks to several months.Abitec, which is based in Northampton, ...
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Aulds disputes press reports
Alan Marr, MD of Aulds (Food) of Greenock, Scotland, was scathing about press reports that profits at the company were down when he spoke to British Baker.Scotland’s largest independent baker and frozen foods company, Aulds Holdings, filed returns to Companies House for the year ending March 2007 showing turnover was ...
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US bakers march over failing wheat supplies
The American Bakers Association (ABA) is calling on all US bakers to descend on Washington in protest against critically low wheat reserves."Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures," said ABA president and CEO Robb MacKie.With "critically" low reserves and severe conditions in the wheat markets, ABA is demanding that the United ...
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Lightbody to expand Chinese operation with new bakery
Lightbody, the celebration cake manufacturer, is planning to build a bakery in China."We’re looking for a site at the moment," Lightbody’s MD Martin Lightbody told British Baker. "It seemed like a natural progression for us and it’s where all the growth is going to be."At the moment, the company subcontracts ...
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Rich hosts BCA
Fareham-based Rich Products recently hosted a visit from members of the British Confectioners’ Association (BCA).Forty-six members, who attended the two-day trip, were taken on a tour around the bakery site and were offered tastings and technical presentations."It’s a lot to organise for so many people to come to visit ...