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Seaweed oatcake a hit
A newly launched seaweed and black pepper oatcake is going down well in the Highlands - and beyond.The oatcake is the brainchild of Lewis MacLean, a former Scotch Pie world champion, who runs MacLean’s Highland Bakery in Forres, which supplies a range of oatcakes to Harvey Nichols, House of ...
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Organic trial
A new ’Better Organic Bread’ project has been launched to boost the country’s organic bread market.The project, organised by the Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association Group (CCFRA), along with Defra and the Home Grown Cereals Association (HGCA), features milling and baking trials with different wheat varieties in a bid ...
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Reporting in
Matthew Goodman, policy representative, Forum of Private Business (FPB)High street bakers, already concerned that their trade is being hit by high taxes and the might of large supermarkets, are among the small firms that believe the government is not listening to them.The Forum of Private Business (FPB), which represents small ...
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The authoritative research commissioned by Rich Products, using TNS Worldpanel (pg 4), will do little to allay the government’s fears on obesity. It shows a 14% rise in indulgence products over last year! And growth in indulgence has overtaken health for the first time. But it’s good news for ...
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Union fights to save 40 jobs
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union resumed talks with management at the Park Cakes bakery in Bolton this week in a bid to stave off 40 job losses.As British Baker went to press, the union was set to hear the company’s response to its proposals for saving the ...
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International activity
The German and Italian baking federations have welcomed new co-operation between their countries’ respective trade fairs - IBA World Market for Baking and ABtech Expo.Both federations and the engineering consortium Sipan have agreed to co-ordinate their trade fair policies "in the interests of all market partners", they said in a ...
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Kerry cuts jobs after buying sandwich firm
All 250 workers at Bernard Matthews’ sandwich business have been made redundant, after it was acquired by Irish company Kerry Foods.Around 150 jobs have been axed with the closure of the company’s Dunstable factory, with the remaining redundancies coming from the van sales business.Frank Hayes, director of corporate affairs at ...
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Award reward
A bakery manager at Asda has been promoted after his team won the In-store Bakery of the Year category at the 2007 Baking Industry Awards (BIA).Chris Spoors from Asda in Boldon, South Tyneside, is now the fresh food team leader responsible for bakery, produce, meat, fish and dairy. These ...
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Bakery companies sign up to water reduction scheme
Some of the baking industry’s leading players have joined a scheme to cut water use by a fifth.Premier Foods, Warburtons and United Biscuits are among 21 food and drink companies that have agreed to use less water in manufacturing.The 21 businesses, which between them are worth some £15bn, have ...
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Good year for Skoda bakery
A Kent bakery which produced props for a recent Skoda Fabia advert is celebrating a bumper year after doubling its turnover to £2m, moving to new 15,000sq ft premises and winning contracts with retailers including Asda and Morrisons.The Cake Bake Company in Swanscombe, which makes a wide range of traditional ...
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Jacob Fruitfield to close Dublin biscuit factory
The Jacob Fruitfield Food Group has set out plans to restructure its manufacturing operations, which will lead to the closure of its biscuit factory near Dublin with the loss of 220 jobs.Company chairman Michael Carey regretted the redundancies but said they were unavoidable because the factory at Tallaght had ...
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Briefs
n Fosters Bakery in Mapplewell, Barnsley, has reduced the food miles and carbon footprint of sandwiches sold in Boots by using wheat grown and then milled locally in its new range of bread. Owner John Foster made a long-term commitment last year to local farmers to use their wheat and ...
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Growth for chocolate supplier
Barry Callebaut, a major supplier of chocolate to the baking and confectionery industry, announced last week that sales volumes rose 10.6% for the three months ending November 30, 2007.Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO of Barry Callebaut, said the company had passed on the costs of higher raw materials to ...
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FSA targets definitive food labelling scheme
The government’s hopes of creating a single food labelling system have been dented after Tesco said it would not agree to the Foods Standards Agency’s (FSA) "unproven" traffic light system.The FSA has commissioned a £500,000 independent evaluation of consumer opinion about the three main types of front-of-pack labelling: the traffic ...
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Export demand for UK wheat
The quality of UK wheat has been praised by millers from Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Tunisia at a recent Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) bread baking workshop but there are concerns over levels of supply.Emma Finn, HGCA arable business supply chain manager, said there were specific worries over the ...
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LASER event
The London and South East Region (LASER) of the National Association of Master Bakers is hosting an Edwardian Breakfast to honour John Renshaw, this year’s Master of the Worshipful Company of Bakers.Renshaw and his wife Jill will be guests of honour at the breakfast on 20 April. Proceeds from the ...
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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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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 ...