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ONS figures reveal changing face of UK baking industry
New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a 2.3% decline in the number of bakery manufacturers over the last year, while the number of bakery retailers grew slightly.The data shows there were 2,885 bakery retail businesses (eg, Greggs counts as one business) in the UK in ...
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n Cakes company Elisabeth the Chef has been acquired by Senoble, a European manufacturer of fresh dairy desserts. Senoble employs 2,300 people and has five production sites in France, one in Spain and one in Slovakia. Elisabeth the Chef employs 1,200 people at three production sites in the ...
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Top speakers for BSB event
Bakery industry leaders are to address the British Society of Baking’s two-day Autumn Conference, from 8-9 October at Coombe Abbey Park Hotel, Coventry.Speakers at the event include Nigel Doughty, MD of bakery chain Paul UK, Tesco category manager Neil Franklin, Mathiesons Bakeries MD George Stevenson and food writer Tom Bridge, ...
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Country Style buys frozen desserts site
Bakery company Country Style Foods has acquired the former RHM frozen desserts factory, in Wales from Premier Foods in a deal that completed on Saturday.The 50,000sq ft RHM factory, in Flint, North Wales, manufactures branded and retailers’ own-label desserts, employing 200 people.Country Style director Joe Wood told British Baker that ...
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’Centre of excellence is vital’
The baking industry has been urged to support a centre of excellence to plug gaps in UK bakery skills provision.Jack Matthews, chief executive of Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, told British Baker at the launch of the National Qualifications Framework that the absence of a centre of ...
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Commodities Tracker
"Prices for raisins from Turkey are 15% higher than only three to four weeks ago and in the short term show no sign of any weakness," said Mark Setterfield RM Curtis’ trading director, in the company’s new report Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit Market Report: August, September 2007."Provided the ...
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Greencore: tough six months
Food and agriculture group Greencore said its convenience foods division had a difficult second half of the year.Unseasonable weather in the UK and unrecovered raw material price inflation contributed to an expected decline in operating profits of 8% year on year.In a trading statement ahead of financial year end on ...
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Packaging watch
A small bakery in Winscombe, North Somerset, has refused to join in a ’green’ scheme to ban plastic bags in the village, arguing the proposed replacement reusable bags are too expensive.The new scheme has been introduced by environmental group Winscombe Zero Waste. The new bags, introduced two weeks ago, are ...
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Landmark ruling on agency staff
Thousands of agency workers will be entitled to greater employment rights following a tribunal that ruled in favour of a group of Polish workers in the food processing industry, saying they should be considered employees rather than self-employed.The workers, who worked at Welsh Country Foods in Winsford in Cheshire, were ...
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Allied Bakeries is restructuring into eight regional business units - it makes a lot of sense, economically and of course environmentally. Supplying more products locally will save on food miles and allow for regional variations (pg 4).It is the shape of things to come as the environment moves from the ...
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ABF takes share in Jordans
Associated British Foods (ABF) has announced that it is to acquire 20% share capital of Jordans, the breakfast cereal and cereal bar business.The family-run W Jordan & Son, has three manufacturing sites and a head office in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. It had sales of £81m and gross assets of ...
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International activity
Anuga, the 286,000sq m international trade fair for food and beverages, is to take place in Cologne, from 13 to 17 October 2007.It has 10 specialised trade shows under one roof, and will be hosting Anuga Bread & Bakery, Hot Beverages, which attracted 377 exhibitors and 46,851 visitors in 2005. ...
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BSB sets out its agenda
’The Tesco Approach to Baked Products’ and ’Managing Change in a Family Business’ will be among the topics addressed at the British Society of Baking conference in October.Speakers at the event, which takes place on 8 and 9 October, include Nigel Doughty, MD of bakery chain Paul UK, food broadcaster ...
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Waterfield scoops top prize at Baking Industry Awards
John Waterfield, managing director of Lancashire craft bakery chain Waterfields, scooped the prestigious Baker of the Year prize as British Baker held its spectacular 20th annual Baking Industry Awards this week.The James Bond-themed event, hosted by actress Joanna Lumley, took place on Monday, 17 September, at the five-star Grosvenor House ...
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Baked range launch for TV chef
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson has launched a licensed range of baked breadsticks and croutini, now on sale through supermarkets Morrisons, Waitrose and Booths.The new products are manufactured by the croutons, croutini and breadsticks specialist, Bradford-based Trilogy Foods."My food range is all about the best taste from the ...
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Summer sees mixed results for bakers
Craft bakers say they put up their prices due to rising costs for ingredients such as flour and butter, following a mixed summer’s trading.Gary Reeve of Salisbury-based Reeve the Baker said sales were up between 5-8% as the cooler wea-ther meant people went to the high street rather than the ...
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The owner of a bakery infested with flour beetles and covered in mud has been fined £3,700 for breaching food hygiene laws.Maxime Barrowcliffe of the Village Bakery, Magdalen Road, Exeter, was also ordered to pay £1,097 costs by Cullompton Magistrates Court.n Gent’s pie shop and bakery in Standish, Lancashire, ...
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Finsbury looks to further buys as it integrates units
Finsbury Food Group said this week that it is ready to look at possible acquisitions, as it posted record results for 2007.The group had almost finished intergrating latest acquisition, cake company Lightbody, which it bought in February, chief executive Dave Brooks told British Baker. It would be able to consider ...
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Pie firm charged over hygiene
A pie factory in the West Mid-lands, has been fined almost £7,000 this month for poor hygiene conditions.Flaky Pastry of Bilston, was closed for four days last summer following a visit from health inspectors. Wolverhampton magistrates heard how the bakery breached hygiene regulations, due to the poor condition ...