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Greencore looks to step up food-to-go operation
Greencore said last week that it plans to grow its food-to-go and sandwich businesses by organic growth or through acquisition.Speaking after the convenience food group reported a 38% hike in pre-tax profits to E35.4m (£24m) for the for the half year to 30 March, chief financial officer Patrick Coveney said ...
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Tesco service levels signal recovery at Inter Link
Inter Link revealed that it achieved 99.9% service level for key customer Tesco last week as a recovery gets underway.The cake supplier, which has £60m in debts, also saw above budget sales in May, chairman Jeremy Hamer told British Baker.He added that information had now been passed to potential bidder ...
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Meals on wheels
A £500,000 TV advert shows the making of a full-sized Skoda Fabia car made out of cake. The two companies involved in ingredients sourcing and baking of the main sponge blocks, are Flour Power City Bakery and the Cake Bake Company. Renshaw supplied sugar paste. See British Baker 8 June
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Real Good Food reports encouraging start to 2007
The Real Good Food Company announced at its annual general meeting last week, that it has had an "encouraging start to the year".However, for the first four months of 2007, year-on-year sales for its bakery ingredients division, Renshaw, were down. This was "principally due to the discontinued nut sales made ...
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ABF adds grocery clout with purchase of Patak’s
Kingsmill-parent Associated British Foods has bought the Patak’s business from the founding Pathak family.The deal, set to complete in August, comprises the Patak’s brand and assets in all countries except India - including its Scottish ethnic breads bakery business.ABF said the Patak’s brand would give its grocery division ...
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International activity
The International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) will be held in Orlando, Florida on 7-10 October.An anticipated 800 exhibiting companies - including manufacturers, ingredient and equipment suppliers, distributors and packaging systems - will showcase exhibits to 20,000 attendees from all segments of the industry, from wholesale plant bakeries to artisan bakers.According ...
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Jim Winship, director, British Sandwich Association
The recent closure of a sandwich business, due to listeria, highlights for us all the added risks chilled food operations all have to contend with these days, over and above the complexities of running any business.Like other bacteria, listeria is not something you can see or touch, yet the potential ...
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Defra sees rise in at-home bread consumption
The average person ate 0.8% more bread at home in 2005-06 than the previous year, according to Defra’s Family Food 2005-06 survey, released last week.The annual report on food and drink purchases in the UK says that the average person bought 701g of bread per week to eat at ...
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Zeelandia backs bakery open day
Ingredients supplier Zeelandia and Glovers Bakery held two open days, on 18 and 19 May at the Glovers shop in Leyland, to promote speciality breads.Zeelandia provided technical support, promotional material and ingredients. The focus was on its Prokorn, Fiesta Corn, Exakt Ciabatta and O’mega products. The Exakt Ciabatta was made ...
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Briefs
n Latest companies to sign up as exhibitors at next year’s Baking Industry Exhibition include Pentagram, HMP Lindholme andStable Micro Systems. BIE08 takes place at Birmingham’s NEC on 6-9 April 2008.n Administrators report that talks with a buyer for the Hull-based Skeltons bakery chain are continuing. Meanwhile, Martin’s Cakes & ...
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Starbucks tops poll of UK coffee shops
The UK’s branded coffee chain market continues to expand rapidly, exceeding 3,000 outlets for the first time in May 2007 and an estimated £1.3 billion in turnover, according to new research from Allegra Strategies.Its report, UK Coffee Craze Continues, forecasts the coffee shop market will nearly double over the next ...
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Deregulation to happen
Legislation covering wrapped bread weights is set to be scrapped in the UK next year, after an about-turn by the European Parliament.An amended version of the EU Nominal Quantities directive, voted on last month and just published, will deregulate weights and sizes for all pre-packed products, except for wines ...
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SAMB discusses industry pressures
At the Scottish Association of Master Bakers conference, which took place over the May Bank Holiday weekend, Stanley Smith, convenor of the SAMB technical committee, told delegates that pressures in the industry had changed in 2007 from being legislation-based to being supermarket- and industry-led.Smith cited nine different methods of ...
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Vandemoortele investment
Belgian food group Vandemoortele said last month that it is to invest more than E70 million throughout this year, "in an aim to drive forward continued capacity growth and efficiency improvements".The group is planning to fill up to 113 new vacancies. "We are making significant investments in staff, brands and ...
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Your letters
In spite of Andrew Whitley’s claim, in his letter (11 May), that he is not attacking "the whole milling and baking industry", he persists in suggesting our industry is not only dishonest about materials and techniques, but is also guilty of mendacity and a cynical manipulation with selective additions of ...
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Doughnut Week targets £40k as bakers rally to the cause
More than 700 bakers and businesses took part in the recent National Doughnut Week, sponsored by BakeMark UK. Money is still being collected, but it is hoped to raise up to £40,000 in total.Campbell’s bakery of Crieff, in the Scottish Highlands, was one of the bakeries which joined in the ...
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Questions remain over folic acid
The detail of how folic acid will be added to baked goods remains unclear despite the Food Standards Agency (FSA) board’s decision last week to recommend mandatory fortification to health ministers.The FSA hopes to decide at its next board meeting in June whether folic acid should be added at the ...
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Restructure at Allied
Allied Bakeries is restructuring its UK mainland business into eight regional business units to improve service levels and efficiency.A budget of several million pounds has been allocated to put in place the new devolved structure over the coming months, MD Mark Fairweather told British Baker.Eight local bakeries will serve the ...
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Hutton stresses open approach
Food Standards Agency (FSA) chair Dame Deidre Hutton told last week’s Federation of Bakers conference that the agency wants to be "porous" and "as open as possible to external views" on key issues.She urged some 140 delegates at the event in London to keep working with the FSA on ...