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Honeytop sales soar by 29%
Ethnic bread manufacturer Honeytop Speciality Foods, announced last week that turnover is up by 29%, from £20.5m to £26m on the previous year.Charles Eid, joint-MD of Honeytop, said the results are the culmination of an "exciting year", which has seen new products including organic naan, keema naan and filled ...
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Warburtons workers mull strike action
Staff at Warburtons may be heading for strike action after they rejected a below-inflation wage offer and changes to their working terms and conditions.The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) will ballot its 1,000 members between 10 and 24 October over possible industrial action at Warburtons’ 24 UK bakeries ...
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Bread prices set to rise again as flour costs climb higher
The UK’s two major millers have announced an unprecedented second round of steep price rises on flour as the global wheat price continues to soar.Rank Hovis is putting prices up by £85 a tonne for its bread-making flour from 15 October, with ADM Milling adding £84.38 a tonne on non-organic ...
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Tate & Lyle profit warning leads to share price fall
Tate & Lyle’s shares fell by over a quarter to 398.75p last week, wiping around £670m from its market capitalisation, after it announced that profits in its sugars division were "sharply lower" than in the comparative period last year.In its third profit warning this year, it said profit margins had ...
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Kirk Hunter chief executive of Scottish Association of Master
Political events in Scotland have become extremely interesting. A minority SNP administration is moving cautiously forward trying to avoid contentious issues where the other parties can combine and defeat the Government.The publication of the Government’s Lifelong Skills Strategy was an issue where the administration would have felt on firm ground. ...
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n Farmers, producers, suppliers and retailers of all sizes are being encouraged to take part in the ninth annual Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign. Organised by the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), the campaign highlights the high-quality regional breakfast foods available throughout the country. Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2008 takes place from ...
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Finsbury buys Weight Watchers cake company
Bakery group Finsbury Food Group has acquired Weight Watchers low-fat cake manufacturer Anthony Alan Foods as a rapid expansion programme continues.Anthony Alan is a sales and marketing agency, which has the rights to distribute ambient cakes using the Weight Watchers brand in the UK and Ireland. Manufacture is outsourced to ...
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Morrisons buys Kear’s share in Rathbones
Supermarket Morrisons has acquired the whole of the Rathbone Kear plant bakery business, buying out bakery entrepreneur Harry Kear’s 20% stake.Harry Kear told British Baker: "My job is complete. I have finished what I set out to do which was to get the bakeries in good order and working well. ...
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Scottish engineering firm buys Double D
Equipment supplier Double D Food Engineering has been acquired by the Bonspiel Group, a Scotland-based specialist engineering group."The old owners did a great job of establishing Double D in the UK bakery market," new MD Bob Petrie, formerly of NCR, told British Baker. "But we’re really looking to expand ...
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Register for free training conference
Anyone interested in bakery training and how it affects their company, workforce or college is invited to attend a free one-day conference on Tuesday, October 30, at Bakers Hall, Harp Lane, off Lower Thames Street, London EC3 from 10am-12.30 pm.The event will cover future changes to training, education and funding, ...
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Crusts make for heavy load
A British Bakeries survey has found that more than 10.5 million crusts, weighing 209 tonnes, are thrown away each day in the UK.The findings show that a typical family household throws away the crusts from two slices of bread every day, with one in five (22%) throwing away the crusts ...
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Health watch
Bakery companies have swung into action after an investigation into the effects of additives on children’s behaviour.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently announced that eating or drinking certain mixes of colourings, including Sunset yellow (E110), Quinoline yellow (E104), Carmoisine (E122), Allura red (E129), Tartrazine (E102) and Ponceau 4R (E124), together ...
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Holgran teams up with Millbo
Bakery ingredients supplier Holgran is to work with an Italian-based ingredients specialist.Millbo is a suppliers of speciality ingredients including enzymes, sourdough, fermented flours and improvers. Customers include flour millers, bread improver and premix manufacturers, large plant bakeries and artisan craft bakers. Products are currently sold in over 30 countries throughout ...
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RGFC reports 8% leap in bakery turnover
Bakery and ingredients group Real Good Food Company (RGFC) said last week that sales in its bakery division were up 8% year on year, but sales at its Renshaw ingredients division had been slower than expected.Interim results for the year to 30 June 2007 showed that Renshaw’s sales were worth ...
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IAWS turnover swelled by Spunkmeyer acquisition
IAWS Group announced this week that group revenue is up 22.5% to €1.9bn (£1.3bn) and operating profit increased 31% to €146.4m (£1bn).Sales at the Irish company, which owns brands including Delice de France and Cuisine de France, were boosted in October last year by the purchase of US-based Otis ...
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Warburtons increases presence across UK
New figures suggest that Warburtons has grown its share of the bakery market in all parts of Britain, taking sales from its rivals’ flagship brands Hovis and Kingsmill.The AC Nielsen figures (52 weeks to 14 July), which are quoted in Warburtons’ 2007 Bakery Review, also suggest that Kingsmill has seen ...
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Morrisons adds Polish, Greek and Jewish breads
Retailer Morrisons is launching a range of ethnic breads made from scratch in-store, including Jewish and Greek loaves and a Polish bloomer."Polish bakers working in our stores provided inspiration for the bloomer," said Martin Clayton, bakery specialist at Morrisons. "Our in-store bakers are always keen to try their hand at ...
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Time running out for Queen’s Awards
Bakery businesses have just over a month to apply for the 2008 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.The awards recognise achievements in international trade, innovation and sustainable development. "It costs nothing to enter and every application is judged on its individual merits," said Steve Brice, secretary of The Queen’s Awards Office. "I ...
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Chris North, bakery tutor at Castle College, part of Sheffield College
Ours is a proud craft industry, that is resisting attempts to completely de-skill it in order to save money. The baker or pastry chef in Europe is a respected member of the community. In the UK, our image is poor and careers teachers at school give us 1 out of ...