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    Burton’s eyes premium market after takeover

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Duke Street Capital, private equity owners of confectionery manufacturer Burton’s Foods, has acquired Gateshead-based Northumbrian Fine Foods for an undisclosed sum.After the deal was completed on January 10, Northumbrian Fine Foods chairman David Jones said: "This is an exciting time for our business. By joining with Burton’s Foods we will ...

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    Burton’s eyes premium market after takeover

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Duke Street Capital, private equity owners of confectionery manufacturer Burton’s Foods, has acquired Gateshead-based Northumbrian Fine Foods for an undisclosed sum.After the deal was completed on January 10, Northumbrian Fine Foods chairman David Jones said: "This is an exciting time for our business. By joining with Burton’s Foods we will ...

  • News

    Burton’s eyes premium market after takeover

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Duke Street Capital, private equity owners of confectionery manufacturer Burton’s Foods, has acquired Gateshead-based Northumbrian Fine Foods for an undisclosed sum.After the deal was completed on January 10, Northumbrian Fine Foods chairman David Jones said: "This is an exciting time for our business. By joining with Burton’s Foods we will ...

  • News

    Burton’s eyes premium market after takeover

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Duke Street Capital, private equity owners of confectionery manufacturer Burton’s Foods, has acquired Gateshead-based Northumbrian Fine Foods for an undisclosed sum.After the deal was completed on January 10, Northumbrian Fine Foods chairman David Jones said: "This is an exciting time for our business. By joining with Burton’s Foods we will ...

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    Gundula Azeez, policy manager for the Soil Association

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    We breathed a sigh of relief at the Chief Medical Officer’s recent intervention to stall the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) proposal to fortify bread with folic acid.The move was triggered by a review in the British Journal of Nutrition. This found it was wrong of the FSA to assume folic ...

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    Gundula Azeez, policy manager for the Soil Association

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    We breathed a sigh of relief at the Chief Medical Officer’s recent intervention to stall the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) proposal to fortify bread with folic acid.The move was triggered by a review in the British Journal of Nutrition. This found it was wrong of the FSA to assume folic ...

  • News

    Gundula Azeez, policy manager for the Soil Association

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    We breathed a sigh of relief at the Chief Medical Officer’s recent intervention to stall the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) proposal to fortify bread with folic acid.The move was triggered by a review in the British Journal of Nutrition. This found it was wrong of the FSA to assume folic ...

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    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

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    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

  • News

    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

  • News

    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

  • News

    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

  • News

    Strike at Warburtons averted

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Warburtons and the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) have reached a pay agreement following the threat of strike action.The union, which called off planned strike action before Christmas over what it saw as a low pay offer, confirmed on 11 January that an agreement had been reached.No pay ...

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    Bread battle

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The food exhibition SIGEP will take place at Rimini Fiera in Italy from 26-30 January 2008.Last year it attracted over 90,000 visitors, from 121 countries. Just over 40% of these were ice-cream makers, a third were confectioners and 10% were bakers.This year SIGEP will showcase a range of competitions, pitting ...

  • News

    Bread battle

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The food exhibition SIGEP will take place at Rimini Fiera in Italy from 26-30 January 2008.Last year it attracted over 90,000 visitors, from 121 countries. Just over 40% of these were ice-cream makers, a third were confectioners and 10% were bakers.This year SIGEP will showcase a range of competitions, pitting ...

  • News

    Bread battle

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The food exhibition SIGEP will take place at Rimini Fiera in Italy from 26-30 January 2008.Last year it attracted over 90,000 visitors, from 121 countries. Just over 40% of these were ice-cream makers, a third were confectioners and 10% were bakers.This year SIGEP will showcase a range of competitions, pitting ...

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    Cakes and bread drive sales at Premier Foods

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Premier Foods said it expected to hit its 2008 profit targets despite a decline in branded sales in the second half of 2007.Christmas trading was satisfactory across the group and was led by the cakes and customer partnerships businesses, said the company.The main cost pressure over the year came from ...

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    World bread prices: soaring costs push UK loaf up table

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Spiralling flour and fuel costs have helped propel the UK up the global ranking for bread prices, but the country remains one of the cheapest places to buy bread in the world.Figures from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU’s) Worldwide Cost of Living Survey show the average price of a kilo ...

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    World bread prices: soaring costs push UK loaf up table

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Spiralling flour and fuel costs have helped propel the UK up the global ranking for bread prices, but the country remains one of the cheapest places to buy bread in the world.Figures from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU’s) Worldwide Cost of Living Survey show the average price of a kilo ...

  • News

    Cakes and bread drive sales at Premier Foods

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Premier Foods said it expected to hit its 2008 profit targets despite a decline in branded sales in the second half of 2007.Christmas trading was satisfactory across the group and was led by the cakes and customer partnerships businesses, said the company.The main cost pressure over the year came from ...