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Support charity in kart racing fixture
A limited number of places are left on the grid for this year’s Kart Racing Grand Prix, an annual charity event to benefit the Bakers’ Benevolent Society (BBS).Experienced and novice drivers are equally welcome, either as teams or individuals. British Baker will be sending a group of three, ...
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Distribution watch
The cost of petrol is expected to rocket, due to the price of crude oil reaching record levels, pushing up costs for bakery distributors. The price of oil recently broke through the $80 (£40) a barrel for the first time. These price increases are expected to be passed on to ...
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ABF talks to customers about loaf price increase
Allied Bakeries’ parent Associated British Foods (ABF) said this week that it was negotiating with customers to increase the price of a loaf.In a trading update, ABF blamed "recent sharp increases in the cost of flour" for a decision to seek a price increase. A spokeswoman confirmed that Allied was ...
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Mike Holling, president, National Association of Master Bakers
Now summer’s over, it’s time to gear up for Christmas - and let’s hope there’s no repeat of the extreme weather that made this year’s summer fall flat.Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday this year, which always carries complications. Do you trade on Sunday, and if so, what hours? Or ...
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Fletchers may axe jobs at Sheffield site
Up to 211 jobs may go as Fletchers’ Sheffield bakery is "reshaped", following a strategic review.The review identified a range of loss-making product lines that may be axed, if customers agree.Production for the remaining range would be moved to a five- day week from the current 24/7 shift patterns.A 90-day ...
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Proper Cornish goes back to roots
Bodmin-based pasty supplier Proper Cornish has unveiled a £200,000 rebrand, altering its name from Proper Cornish - Real Pasties, to Proper Cornish Food Company.New branding focuses on the company’s Cornish roots, stressing provenance, premium and quality, featuring on everything from swing signs outside local bakeries to the new company van ...
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Bakbel fills portfolio gap
Bakbel Europe’s new ¤6m fruit fillings and jam factory near Brussels was officially opened by the minister for economy of the Walloon region in Belgium last Friday.The site, a joint venture between the Bakels Group and Didier Ladriere, an expert in fruit-based products, can potentially produce up to 100 ...
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Plant bakeries see wastage as UK harvest fails to deliver
High wastage levels have been reported at some plant bakeries, due to the new UK wheat harvest.The Home Grown Cereals Authority said last week that hagberg falling numbers (starch integrity) and protein content on the new harvest was poor, and now plant bakers have reported problem loaves, particularly with wholemeal ...
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Immigration swoop on bakery sextet
Immigration officers have arrested six people on suspicion of working illegally at the Rathbone Kear bakery in Wigan, Greater Manchester.Two men later appeared before Wigan magistrates charged with using false passports to gain employment at the bakery and were served with deportation papers.The court heard that one of the ...
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Scotch Pie Week to do its bit for charity
Organisers plan to double the £11,000 raised for charity last year, as Scotch Pie Week returns for its second time in November.During the week, which runs from 24 November to 1 December, Scottish bakers and butchers raise cash for the Scottish Society for Autism by selling branded wristbands or donating ...
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n A Czech bread has joined the EU’s list of 800 protected local brands alongside delicacies such as Greek feta cheese. The Czech bread "Karlovarsky suchar" has been awarded status as Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) by the European Commission. The bread is baked using water and salt from thermal ...
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Commodities tracker
The price of dried vine fruits coming from Turkey and Greece is soaring, due to extreme drought and the recent fires.Turkish raisin prices are firming, as the vine fruit crop appears to be shrinking. The strengthening Lira has contributed to a "short-term gloomy view" on prices from Turkey, according to ...
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Flour crisis hits Zimbabwe
Two of the biggest bakeries in Zimbabwe said last week that they were about to run out of flour, adding to bread shortages. Lobels Bread, the country’s biggest bakery and Innscor, which runs Bakers Inn, have used up reserve flour stocks.President Mugabe’s government is only importing small quantities of wheat, ...
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Lewis Pies set to expand
Swansea-based Lewis Pies is to spend £700,000 on extending its facilities so that they are "large enough to take our expansion plans for the next decade", it said.The premises in Forestfach will be extended this autumn to feature a new 7,500sq ft factory bolted onto the existing unit.The work, due ...
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Farmhouse Fare revamp includes TV sponsorship
Premium pudding supplier Farmhouse Fare has unveiled a £2m marketing package, including new packaging and a new TV sponsorship deal.The new packaging designs, which have been developed over the past six months, feature products from mixing bowl to dessert bowl, and give details of the story behind the six-year-old company.Farmhouse ...
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Legislation watch
Employers who count the eight public and bank holidays as part of their workers’ holiday entitlement will have to give them extra time off from 1 October, law firm DWF has warned.According to the new Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, statutory holidays will increase to a minimum of 5.6 weeks, including ...
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viewpoint
At the same time that the national press is filled with horror stories about additives, the baking industry is having to turn to improvers to help prevent loaves collapsing after the new harvest (pg 4).Wastage this year seems particularly bad. Nature has played such strange tricks with the wet weather ...
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International Activity
The International Grains Council has said that, in the EU in particular, the price of wheat has surged to new heights.In Germany, German bakers association president Peter Becker has warned that the price of bread was expected to increase by 5% in the coming weeks, fuelled by the near doubling ...
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Alex Waugh director general of nabim
The UK harvest is now estimated to be 80-85% complete. There is little left to do in the south, although there are still fields to be cut further north and in the west.As in other parts of Europe, yields are reported to be down on last ...