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Community bakery hailed as local hero
An Aberdeen bakery, which provides work for adults with learning disabilities, has been nominated for a national award.Newton Dee bakery in Bieldside has been nominated in the Local Hero 2007 awards. Run by the UKTV Food channel, the awards aim to honour Britain’s best independent shops, farm stalls, artisan producers ...
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Wheat crop in balance
The quality and yield for the rest of the UK wheat harvest now depends on the weather during the next two to three weeks, says the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA).The improved weather since the July downpours has meant that 13% of the UK’s harvest is now complete, although it ...
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Denise Crane, technical director, BCCCA
In May, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) board voted unanimously that the mandatory fortification of baked goods with folic acid should be recommended to UK health ministers, to help prevent birth defects. The options were either to add folic acid to flour or bread. The BCCCA proposes that it should ...
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More suppliers sign up for BIE
Firms are flocking to join the Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE), organised by William Reed Events.The latest firms to come on board are Autobake, Martins Conveyor Belts, Mono Equipment, Tromp Bakeries, Par Pak and Ziegra Ice Machines and Ennis Engineering.They join companies including Orbital Food Machinery, Abacus Aquameter, Pillopak and Oliver ...
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Zimbabwe runs out of bread as wheat supplies falter
Zimbabwe’s Grain Marketing Board ran out of wheat last week, with the impact likely to be felt by bakers this week.Reports from Zimbabwe suggest the Board had not supplied millers with wheat for the whole of last week, the result of which was that millers could not supply bakers with ...
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Clean-label breads launched by Tesco
Tesco has launched its first range of breads made using no artificial additives. The range of eight products goes on sale across Britain this month.The breads are made by two key Tesco suppliers from single sites, said Tesco’s technical manager James Markie. They have removed emulsifiers, flavouring and preservatives.Three ...
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Commodities tracker
With such a big crop (estimated to be at least 603,000 tonnes), almonds are attractively priced compared to other tree nuts, said RM Curtis’ trading director Mark Setterfield in the firm’s new report, Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit, June-July 2007."With this in mind, we would expect demand to increase, so ...
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EC’s foot-and-mouth rules hinder exports
Bakery ingredients suppliers are being hit by export restrictions designed to counter the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.On 6 August, the European Commission imposed a restriction on exports of animals susceptible to foot and mouth, as well as derived meat products, milk and by-products, to EU member states and third countries.Association ...
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Supplier survey rates supermarkets on fairness
A new report sets out to highlight what it calls "bully-boy tactics" used by some of the supermarkets when dealing with suppliers.Published last week, the research carried out by Grant Thornton, financial and business advisers, claims that eight out of 10 UK food suppliers, including bakery suppliers, expect to see ...
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Industry needs a single voice
I am writing to support John Gillespie’s idea, outlined in a recent issue of British Baker, for an industry that speaks with one voice.The National Association of Master Bakers, which is the association for craft bakers in England and Wales, would be delighted to give its backing.There are currently various ...
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Legislation watch
New rules come into force on 30 October that will require bakeries to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill.A business can comply with the Landfill Directive by either reducing the amount of waste it produces or by increasing its recycling rates. All non-hazardous waste liquids will ...
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International activity
A growing community of migrant workers, hungry for a taste of home, is fuelling growth in traditional Polish breads while also stimulating interest in traditional eastern European bakery among ’standard white loaf’ Brits.Although still only a footnote in UK bread sales reports, consumption of rye and other loaves indigenous ...
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The Co-op sets out its Christmas stall
The Co-operative Group unveiled its selection of seasonal offerings last week and introduced Fair-trade Christmas bakery products in response to customers’ ethi- cal concerns.The range includes Fairtrade Christmas puddings and mince pies, chocolates and truffles. The mince pies selection also compri-ses Truly Irresistible mini mince pies, deep-fill buttercrust mince pies ...
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ABIM says industry cannot absorb further cost rises
The Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers (ABIM) has said it is not possible for its members to absorb further unprecedented price increases on raw materials.ABIM, with members including Cereform, Dawn Foods, Puratos and Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients, said grain prices had gone up more than 50%, flour 15-20%, starches ...
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O’Briens takes first trip across Atlantic
Irish sandwich and coffee chain O’Briens has revealed it will make its first foray across the Atlantic with the roll-out of a franchise operation in Canada.Retail and operations director Andrew Moyes said that the firm, which has an international presence in Singapore, Australia and China among other countries, is also ...
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International activity
Food From Britain (FFB) is advising British bakery retailers to look to Russia as a source of "tremendous opportunity".As Moscow is due to host this year’s national World Bread Day in October 16, FFB is organising a Russian Trade Development Visit to introduce British food and drink producers to the ...
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Bakels builds on added-value range of ’healthy’ goods
Ingredients supplier Bakels is launching a range of healthy products, including an Omega 3 patent-pending paste, which it says is unique on the market.Following the success of its Low GI bread mix, currently selling the equivalent of one million 800g loaves a month, MD Paul Morrow said the company was ...
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Allied toasts autumn sub-brand
Allied Bakeries has launched a six-week sampling campaign for its new Kingsmill Love to Toast sub-brand in Tesco stores.The range includes two fruit loaves, the Toastie Thick 800g white loaf, and packs of four muffins, six crumpets and six pancakes.Jackie Harold, group brand manager at Allied Bakeries, said: "We wanted ...