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n Peter’s Food Service, which makes Peter’s brand pies, pasties and sausage rolls, has been named Business of the Year at the Caerphilly Business Awards. The awards is designed to recognise business achievement in the County Borough of Caerphilly in South East Wales.n Food & Drink Expo 2008, an exhibition ...
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Commodities watch
The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) and Scotland Food & Drink has launched a new campaign called All About Oats, which aims to promote the health benefits of oats and encourage people to eat them."This campaign will help raise awareness and remind health professionals and consumers ’all about oats’. From coarse ...
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Dean’s joins tourist trail
Dean’s of Huntly has opened what is claimed to be Scotland’s first-ever shortbread visitor centre.The development, located just off the main Aberdeen-Inverness road, also includes a café-bistro and shop.Managing director Bill Dean commented: "We are currently producing shortbread 24 hours a day and visitors will get the chance to find ...
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Factory re-opens
British Bakeries’ Bradford bakery operation has been given a reprieve after production had started being wound down in October.Owner Premier Foods had planned to close the bakery operation, leaving the site as a depot.Now, production will continue for the time being at the factory in Thornbury.Premier Foods said the decision ...
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Irish independents to struggle
Independent retailers in the Republic of Ireland are set to feel the squeeze from large international players tempted by the market’s impressive growth rates, according to a new report.Published by Verdict Research, part of Datamonitor, the report said that the Irish Republic’s E24.4bn retail market has grown by 34% ...
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Legislation watch
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has called on the government to lift barriers preventing smaller businesses competing for contracts from public authorities.Its argument has been strengthened by a report on public procurement from the Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee that said smaller firms were hampered by the complex ...
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McDonald’s redesigns restaurants and menu
McDonald’s is revamping many of its restaurants with 200 outlets set to be ’re-imaged’ by the end of next year."We are giving the stores a more modern and contemporary feel," Lorraine Homer, media relations manager of McDonald’s UK, told British Baker. "Furnishings are more tactile and less plastic."The redesign programme, ...
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Carr’s Flour profits crash as 80% wheat price rises hit
Carr’s announced this week that operating profit in its milling business more than halved over the last year, to £1.1m (from £2.5m) on sales up 2.4% to £57m (from £55.7m).The profit decrease reflected the delays of passing on the full impact of the 80% increase in the price of ...
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International activity
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest labour unions in the US, representing 1.4 million people, has announced a plan with Yucaipa Companies and Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU) to purchase Interstate Bakeries, helping to save more than 9,500 jobs at the bankrupt firm.In a statement, the Union ...
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Subway adds power to EIPC
The European Independent Purchasing Company (EIPC), owned by franchisees of sandwich chain Subway, says it is now one of the biggest independent purchasers of food and paper in Europe.The EIPC, which manages purchasing on behalf of some 2,000 Subway shops across the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Benelux, sources ...
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Fletchers’ staff seek union advice
Staff at Sheffield bakery Fletchers have been holding talks with union representatives and legal advisers over proposed changes to their contracts, which they fear could cost them thousands of pounds in pay cuts.Management at the plant in Claywheels Lane, Wadsley Bridge, revealed their plans on a company noticeboard (see ...
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Andrew Pollard, chairman, British Society of Baking
I enjoyed the BSB autumn conference for many reasons but, above all, for the ability to socialise and talk about general bakery issues other than just the prices of raw materials, which seems to have dominated us all in the trade for some time.With unprecedented increases in flour, oils and ...
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Piemen await verdict in Scotch pie contest
Tension is mounting among the 70 entrants to the annual World Scotch Pie championship as they wait for the winner to be crowned on November 29.Entries from bakers and butchers - 69 from Scotland and just one from England - were scrutinised by a panel of judges at Lauder College ...
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UK Bakeries hopes for a sale
UK Bakeries, a family-owned wholesale bakery based in Leicester specialising in baps and rolls, has called in administrators, blaming increased demand for wraps.The business was established in 1939 as G W Kirton & Sons, employing approximately 60 people. It was acquired in December 2002 and changed its name to ...
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Swedish bakery
Scotland’s first Swedish bakery is to open at a multi-million pound development on the site of Edinburgh’s former Royal Infirmary.Award-winning Swedish baker Jan Hedh will be overseeing the opening of the business called Peter’s Yard, which is a joint venture with Swedish businessman Peter Ljungquift and two Edinburgh-based partners. The ...
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McDonald’s enjoys sales boost
Fast food chain McDonald’s has announced that global comparable sales in its restaurants rose by 6.9% in October.In Europe, sales were up 6.4%, while in Asia, the Middle East and Africa comparable sales rose 9.4%"We are leveraging our menu variety and value," said McDonald’s chief executive officer, Jim Skinner, ...
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Sandwich sales are boosted by consumer focus on health
The expansion of sandwich bars and the trend for healthy eating has turned sluggish performance in the sandwich market between 2002 and 2006 into an estimated 9% rise in the last year, says a new report.Research from Mintel estimates the market will be worth more than £4 billion this calendar ...
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Firms fined on safety breaches
Fines totalling £33,500 have been imposed on two firms after a lorry driver was crushed to death at the Allied Bakeries site in Glasgow.Graham Meldrum died after being struck by a faulty tail-lift on his truck while unloading in July 2005. He was trapped for an hour before his ...
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n Three armed robbers wearing balaclavas stole cash from a bakery in Long Melford village, Suffolk, last week. The men threatened staff and customers at The Patisserie with what is believed to be a shotgun and a baseball bat.n Baking expert Dan Lepard has written around 50 new recipes for ...