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Radio appeal boosts bakery
A family-run bakery in Gloucestershire has enjoyed a resurgence of customer support following a radio appeal by its owner for people in Cirencester to show loyalty to local businesses.Jennifer Whiddett, who runs two shops and a bakery with her husband, Robert, appeared on a local radio station to talk about ...
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Hospital seeks local bakers
Bakers are among businesses in Chesterfield being urged to take part in an initiative to get locally sourced, high-quality food served at a hospital in the Derbyshire town.The Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is teaming up with the Food and Drink Forum - a not-for-profit organisation based in the ...
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Premier’s bakery brands
HovisHovis GranaryMcDougallsMother’s PrideMr KiplingNimbleOrmoElephant AttaFassalCadbury’s mini rolls and cake bars
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Noise ban hangs over bakery
Memory Lane Cakes in Cardiff failed to get a council noise abatement order lifted last week when a High Court judge refused a judicial review.The firm, which has operated at Maes y Coed Road since the 1940s, was handed the order after residents on a local housing estate complained they ...
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Premier negotiates a breathing space
The market reacted positively to Premier Foods’ announcement on 4 March of its financial results for 2007. Investors and analysts breathed a collective sigh of relief when the doomsayers’ predictions of a rights issue, possible sell-offs and breached banking covenants were not realised.The overall feeling of investors, analysts ...
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Briefs
n The Wiltshire town of Melksham has lost its last independent bakers with the closure of Webbs Bakery. Owner Mick Eglin looked back on "32 brilliant years" and said that the bakery had outlasted most of the other independents in the county.He added that trading conditions had been "extremely difficult" ...
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Swiss style comes to Manchester
A Lancashire pastry chef who learnt the trade from a Swiss master baker in Lytham St Anne’s has returned from 20 years working abroad to open The Deliciously Swiss Artisan Bakery & Patisserie in Didsbury, Manchester.Mark Cooper opened the doors of his new shop on Valentine’s Day and has met ...
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Confectionery products
and biscuits are more easily recognised on the supermarket shelf and are more likely to be purchased if they are in cartons. A study by market research company TNS Dimarso, showed consumers three different product categories, each of them packed in a carton as well as another format. Cartons were ...
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Cost cuts stimulate Grainfarmers’ profits
Grainfarmers Group, which recently struck a deal with Sainsbury’s to supply its in-store bakeries with fully traceable milling wheat, has reached profitability after paring down staff and transport costs.Chairman Andrew Christie-Miller told British Baker that creating a leaner, more efficient operation and seeking further agreements with "other major end users" ...
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Greggs reveals record profits as ingredients costs keep on rising
Greggs unveiled full-year pre-tax profits last week of £49m - up 12% on 2006. This is despite substantial rises in the cost of energy and key ingredients including flour and vegetable oils, which pushed up selling prices by 5% over the year.MD Sir Michael Darrington gave an upbeat assessment of ...
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Warburtons plans to open Yorkshire depot
Warburtons plans to build a distribution site at Howden in east Yorkshire because it has outgrown its existing depot in the region at Gilberdyke.The 15,000sq ft depot, which will be based on the Ozone Business Park close to the M62 motorway, is being developed to the company’s specification by Horncastle ...
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Functional foods
The baking industry could do its bit to combat cancer by including extracts from mangos in a range of products. Mangos are rich in antioxidants and dietary fibre, according to new scientific research.The Journal of Cereal Science reported that, during the research, mango peel powder had been used to make ...
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Rogue trader fuels price rises
A rogue trader at the commodity broker MF Global played a large part in pushing up global wheat prices at the end of February, taking huge personal bets on the direction of wheat prices and losing $141.5m (£71m).The company fired trader Evan Dooley at its Memphis office for an "awful" ...
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Health watch
Consumers are increasingly opting to avoid products with gluten and wheat because they want less of them in their diet and not because they may have a food sensitivity, according to a report commissioned by Mrs Crimble’s ’free-from’ cake and biscuit brand.The report found that consumers were being swayed towards ...
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Irwin’s opts for new software
Irwin’s, the Irish plant bakery, has installed the latest version of QuickStep Food and Beverage from Lawson Software, along with Lawson Business Intelligence, to improve communication across its UK-wide supply chain."It’s a demand-driven system," says executive chairman Brian Irwin, "which means that products will be made and delivered more efficiently, ...
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Medway pastry plant saved by management
A Welsh pastry business and 40 jobs have been saved, after senior management took control of the firm in a £1m deal.Sales directors Emma Crowther and Philip Stanton, finance director Ceri Smith and operations director Mark Jones all worked for frozen food manufacturer Medway Foods, which operated three factories at ...
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Reporting in
The last few months have seen extraordinary gyrations in grain prices. The quality wheat market has been especially affected as Canadian prices doubled between November and February before falling back in the first week of March.Looking forward, most expectations are for continuing volatility associated with uncertainties about the forthcoming harvest, ...
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Cost cuts stimulate Grainfarmers’ profits
Grainfarmers Group, which recently struck a deal with Sainsbury’s to supply its in-store bakeries with fully traceable milling wheat, has reached profitability after paring down staff and transport costs. See 21 March British Baker
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Warburtons plans to open Yorkshire depot
Warburtons plans to build a distribution site at Howden in east Yorkshire because it has outgrown its existing depot in the region at Gilberdyke. See 21 March British Baker