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Warburtons worker gets life
A bakery worker at the Warburtons bakery in Bellshill, who stabbed a colleague through the heart in a row over tea breaks, was jailed for life on Monday.Paul Steadward must serve a minimum of 16 years in prison before being considered for parole, said the judge.He had denied murdering ...
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McDonald’s leads way
Skills council Improve hopes the wave of publicity surrounding the new McDonald’s qualification, which is equivalent to an A-level, will encourage more bakery employers to introduce nationally recognised in-house training.Jack Matthews, chief executive of Improve, told British Baker that it was already working with Ginsters and confectionery company Swizzles Matlow ...
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Packaging watch
The global packaging industry will display the latest processing and packaging trends for a range of sectors including confectionery and baked goods when trade fair Interpack runs in Dusseldorf, Germany, from 24 to 30 April.Interpack 2008 is expected to be the largest ever with exhibitors and visitors spread across 19 ...
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viewpoint
I always think the words ’corporate social responsibility’ are rather unwieldy. To some the word ’corporate’ as in ’corporation’ seems to take little account of smaller producers such as craft bakers. But of course the corporate actually stands for ’we’. The care of the planet and its resources is ...
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McDonald’s leads way
Skills council Improve hopes the wave of publicity surrounding the new McDonald’s qualification, which is equivalent to an A-level, will encourage more bakery employers to introduce nationally recognised in-house training. See 1 Feb British Baker
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ABF registers rise in revenues
Associated British Foods, which owns Allied Bakeries and British Sugar, has reported a 13% rise in group revenue over the corresponding period last year, despite a 12% fall in sugar revenues, according to the company’s interim management statement.During the 16 weeks to January 2008, the group said the rise in ...
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Geoff Dossetter, external affairs director, Freight Transport Association
The UK economy is in dire need of the construction of purpose-built, efficient and adequate roads to improve bakery delivery and cut the awful cost of congestion. UK transport needs more than a sticking plaster; it needs a major operation.Following the successful experiment of running traffic on the hard ...
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Salt appraisal
Bakery bread from supermarkets, tested for salt content by the consumer magazine Which?, fell within the ’amber’ range - neither high nor low - under the Food Standards Agency’s traffic-light system for food labelling.The survey, published this month, showed that Asda’s Granary tin had the least salt, with 0.5g of ...
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UK Bakeries saved as Kirtons steps forward
A total of 41 jobs have been saved after Kirtons Bakery stepped in to buy the business and assets of UK Bakeries in Leicester.The deal to rescue the business was sealed earlier this month when Kirtons managing director Minaz Dharamshi, who has been involved in turning around other businesses, decided ...
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Midlands bakers enjoy a merry little Christmas
It was a bumper Christmas for two Midlands-based bakeries, which enjoyed record sales.Mike Holling, retail operations manager, Birds of Derby, told British Baker last week that there was a queue of 45 customers waiting outside the bakery shop at 5.30am on Christmas Eve, with a peak of 60 people by ...
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Village turns out in support of bakery
More than 200 people attended a public meeting in a Suffolk village last week to support their bakery, which is locked in a bitter dispute with the local parish council over access.Palmers Bakery, which has been run by the same family in Haughley since 1869, has been told by the ...
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EU duty ban holds little sway
The European Union’s suspension of import duties on cereals will not have a significant impact on prices, because most of the imported wheat used in flour is of high quality and duty is already set at zero, Alex Waugh, director general of the National Association of British and ...
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Carr’s contest
Carr’s Milling Industries is to sponsor the World Marmalade Festival, held in February. This will mark Paddington Bear’s 50th birthday and is designed to give "the traditional marmalade sandwich a make-over", said Caroline Dale of Carrs Breadmaker.Bakers have been asked to design a new sandwich filling incorporating marmalade. The top ...
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Charity week gets under way
BakeMark UK will be staging National Doughnut Week from 10 to 17 May, giving craft bakers the chance to increase sales and publicity while raising money for charity.For every doughnut sold by participating bakers, funds are donated to the Children’s Trust, a national charity that provides care, ...
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Redundancies expected as Park consolidates
Management at the Park Cake Bakery in Bolton, Lancashire, have begun talks with the workforce over plans to cut 40 jobs.The company announced the job cuts after a review of the bakery’s trading position. A company statement said: "The decision has been prompted by the need to consolidate the business ...
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CSR watch
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is to extend its collaboration with corporate giants. It will help them assess greenhouse gas emissions and create a single standardised approach for climate change information throughout their supply chains.It aims to help customers and suppliers work together to develop strategies to reduce their carbon ...
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Tesco to tailor ISB range in drive for customer focus
Tesco said it would have to make "customer-led decisions" this year, following plans to slim down its product range and launch fewer products than in 2007, in a bid to drive availa- bility and quality.In-store bakery (ISB) buyer Simon Holt told British Baker that Tesco’s ISB contained too many products ...
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Dark days for Sunshine
With fresh fears of floods looming, a family bakery faces a possible 20% hike in insurance premiums, after being submerged in July.As the Environment Agency issued further severe flood warnings last week, Ray Hill, who owns the Sunshine Bakery in Stroud, Gloucestershire, told British Baker he had been forced ...
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Health watch
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched new TV adverts to encourage shoppers to opt for healthy eating by using traffic light labels. They come as an international study names the UK as the number one fast food nation.The TV ads, voiced by comedienne Dawn French, were aired during ...