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Consumer view
I think that bread is under-sold. In a restaurant, for example, it is often used as a distraction before the starter or main course.My wife and I go to a lovely fish restaurant in Ockley, Surrey, called Bryce’s. The bread there is something else. I always try to catch the ...
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Costa sales up driven by new store openings
Whitbread said its Costa business saw substantial sales increase driven by new store openings and a strong like-for-like performance, in a trading update this week.The company, which also owns the budget Premier Inn hotel chain, said it had opened 76 UK Costa stores (or a net of 63 if ...
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Further flour price increases predicted as costs rocket
Millers and bakers are going through "hair tearing" times as wheat and commodity prices soar, says the National Association of British and Irish Millers (Nabim).Now millers are warning that further flour price increases may be required, despite a rise this month. Breadmaking wheat prices are at record levels, doubling over ...
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International activity
Sara Lee Corporation announced last week that its international bakery sales were up 7.8% and its North American retail bakery sales were up 6.8% for the 12-month period ending 30 June, 2007.The company revealed in a statement that North American retail bakery performed well, due to increased prices, procurement and ...
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Martyn Ainsley, MD, Ainsleys of Leeds
I was dismayed to read in recent copies of The Telegraph (7 August) and Yorkshire Post contentious plans from the Communities and Local Government Committee to allow councils to levy a supplementary rate of tax of up to 10%.It is completely unacceptable that government should seek to pass on costs ...
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Bakery supplier bounces back
North-east bakery supplier Tindale & Stanton says it is back to full strength, expanding its new product development facilities and looking at new lines, two years after a fire destroyed its factory.The fire meant that the company lost 25% of its business overnight. "We had to adapt to survive," ...
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Briefs
n Brennans Bakery in Ireland has teamed up with Irish tour operator Sunway for an online promotion. An offer on the wrappings of Brennans’ half-pan packs directs consumers to a website, [http://www.sunway.ie/brennans]. They can book holidays with a E100 discount, and have a chance of winning a four-star holiday.n Earls ...
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Fine Lady fined on pollution charges
Fine Lady Bakeries has been ordered to pay £8,000 after plea-ding guilty to polluting the River Cherwell in Banbury with diesel and waste bakery washings.On 8 August, Bicester Magistrates’ Court fined the plant baker £3,000 and ordered it to pay over £5,000 in costs, in a case brought by ...
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Commission to scrutinise emails
The Competition Commission has sent out legal notices to Asda and Tesco demanding access to e-mails sent to suppliers over the summer, to cast light on their relationships with suppliers.Reports in The Sunday Telegraph said the Comission wanted to see all e-mails over a five-week period around June, to investigate ...
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Cooks takes a different tack
Retail bakery chain Cooks the Bakery has revealed it currently has 100 outlets, down from 121 at the start of the year.The company, formerly Three Cooks, had 158 shops when it went into administration in November 2006. Chairman Geoff Peppiatt bought 121 of the shops from administrators, renaming the business ...
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Improve seeks NVQ and corporate training links
Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, wants to see employers’ own training programmes recognised as part of a new framework governing vocational qualifications across the industry.It is currently negotiating with employers and training provi-ders on ways to update in-house schemes to make them the basis for National Vocational ...
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Dessert firm tackles market problems
Leicester-based desserts company Vittles is planning to double the size of its business in the next three to four years.The £2.5 million turnover business currently employs 50 people and makes between 1,000 and 2,000 dessert cakes a day.Director Julie Zalesny told British Baker that Vittles, which delivers frozen goods to ...
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Maple Leaf empire expands with purchase of La Fornaia
Maple Leaf Bakery UK added to its growing UK empire with the £18.75 million acquisition of premium breads supplier La Fornaia this week, announcing plans to expand the London-based business.Maple Leaf managing director Peter Maycock welcomed the deal: "La Fornaia is a great business that we have admired for some ...
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Weather hits logistics firm
Logistics company Christian Salvesen said its UK logistics business had been hit by wet weather in July, in an update this week.This business, which processes and stores frozen vegetables for customers, suffered wet weather, severely affecting crops that are harvested during the summer, it said. However, overall trade was broadly ...
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Polish first for Scotland
An entrepreneur has built Scotland’s first large-scale Polish bakery to supply East European migrants and his own restaurant outlets.Bar and restaurant owner Jon Clemence set up the Polish Baking Company with Peter Ford, formerly of the Ford’s bakery chain in Edinburgh, and Sebastian Galewski, a former chef.The Leith bakery will ...
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Irish miller warns of hefty increase in its flour prices
Irish miller Odlums has indicated that its flour prices will increase by over E90 (£61) a tonne.Odlums said it would aim to keep prices to a minimum, but added that the cost of raw mate- rials had surged.The company said that, with the global harvest season well under way, it ...
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Health watch
A recent online survey in Germany, commissioned by National Starch, found that consumers were 20% more likely to buy bakery products if they had added health claims. These included "helps to control blood sugar levels", "increases dietary fibre intake", "promotes a healthy digestive system" and "delivers prebiotic properties".A total ...
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the dichotomy of youth Would you let 16-year-olds help to run your company? Because the government is planning just that for the country, with implications for businesses, argues Tony Phillips
T he world really is going mad. Let me put a scenario to you. On day one, you employ five 16- to 17-year-old trainees. These youngsters are not old enough to buy cigarettes or alcohol, but you appoint them either to your board or works committee and say to ...
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Inflation falls to below 2%
The Office for National Statistics said this week that the UK’s rate of inflation fell to 1.9% in July, below the government’s target of 2%.Inflation was at 3.1% in March and 2.4% in June. The unexpected drop to 1.9% is the largest decline since May 2002. Weaker food prices, including ...
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European Bakeries deal investigated
Suppliers and creditors have raised serious concerns about London wholesale bakery European Bakeries, which recently spent a week in administration.European Bakeries, which supplies discounter Aldi and catering giant Compass, through Enterprise Foods, called in administrators Deloitte on June 8. It had debts of over £576,000 at the time, with over ...