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Improve sets out new NVQ agenda
New "pick and mix" vocational qualifications in food manufactu-ring are set to be unveiled to emp-loyers by Improve, the sector’s skills council, in Leeds on 6 July.Under Improve’s plans, the exis- ting bakery qualifications, inclu-ding the NVQ Bakery levels 1-3 and the Bakery Progression Award, will be phased out over ...
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Improve sets out new NVQ agenda
New "pick and mix" vocational qualifications in food manufactu-ring are set to be unveiled to emp-loyers by Improve, the sector’s skills council, in Leeds on 6 July.Under Improve’s plans, the exis- ting bakery qualifications, inclu-ding the NVQ Bakery levels 1-3 and the Bakery Progression Award, will be phased out over ...
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Peter Wilbourn, IT manager, National Association of Master Bakers
Bakery employers often find it extremely difficult to find the time or money to send their workers on essential training courses. So we have been busy thinking of ways in which we can help.Do you need to get your new staff up to speed on basic hygiene? Or need to ...
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Peter Wilbourn, IT manager, National Association of Master Bakers
Bakery employers often find it extremely difficult to find the time or money to send their workers on essential training courses. So we have been busy thinking of ways in which we can help.Do you need to get your new staff up to speed on basic hygiene? Or need to ...
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Bread avoids size deregulation
The European Parliament last week voted to allow bread to be exempt from legislation which will deregulate pack sizes for pre-packed products across Europe.At present, under UK law, bread over 300g must weigh 400g or a multiple of 400g - for example 1,200g. The EU Nominal Quantities Directive had originally ...
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Bread avoids size deregulation
The European Parliament last week voted to allow bread to be exempt from legislation which will deregulate pack sizes for pre-packed products across Europe.At present, under UK law, bread over 300g must weigh 400g or a multiple of 400g - for example 1,200g. The EU Nominal Quantities Directive had originally ...
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Baby cakes
Cupcakes are making a bit of resurgence as a fashionable bakery treat, which is great news for cake-maker Fiona Cairns. Or at least it should be. "They’re not cupcakes, they’re fairy cakes!" huffs Cairns, only half-jokingly of her products. I stand corrected.So is there any real difference between fairy cakes ...
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Wake up, bakery employers!
D ear employers, are you looking for workers who are skilled, physically fit, intelligent, selfless, ambitious and prepared to wait for advancement? Should they be adaptable, loyal, prepared to work long hours for low pay, educate themselves, train themselves and have little or no social life? If so, you need ...
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Bakery skill boost
Passions are clearly running high over the future of training in the baking industry, as bakery tutor Chris North so eloquently discourses in this week’s Friday Essay (pg 13).The relationship between the sector skills council Improve, employers and colleges has not been one without tensions over how to take the ...
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Book preview
Good Bread is Back- a contemporary history of French breadSteven Laurence KaplanAmerican historian Steven Kaplan traces the French bread-baking tradition, from the 18th Century right through industrialisation of the breadmaking process to the craft bakery revival of the 1990s, which was spurred on by government intervention.Kaplan also offers a personal ...
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Book preview
Good Bread is Back- a contemporary history of French breadSteven Laurence KaplanAmerican historian Steven Kaplan traces the French bread-baking tradition, from the 18th Century right through industrialisation of the breadmaking process to the craft bakery revival of the 1990s, which was spurred on by government intervention.Kaplan also offers a personal ...
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FSA considers study funding for reduction of salt in bread
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is deciding whether to fund scientic reasearch into the technicalities of reducing salt in bread.The FSA has already met with stakeholders, including the Fede-ration of Bakers, the UK Association of Manufacturers of Bakers’ Yeast and the Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers, over the last couple ...
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Glovers to hold bread open day
Lancashire’s Glovers Bakery is to showcase its new range of speciality and healthy breads by holding its first open day on Saturday.The firm has linked up with ingredients supplier Zeelandia for the event. It hopes to inspire and educate shoppers about artisan breads, with demonstrations, tastings and ...
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Value rise for bread
Bread sales have gone up in value across the board over the last year, apart from the white in-store bakery sector, TNS Worldpanel data reveals.The data shows that while brown in-store loaf sales rose by 2.1% to £58 million for the year to 25 February, 2007, white in-store bread ...
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FSA considers study funding for reduction of salt in bread
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is deciding whether to fund scientic reasearch into the technicalities of reducing salt in bread.The FSA has already met with stakeholders, including the Fede-ration of Bakers, the UK Association of Manufacturers of Bakers’ Yeast and the Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers, over the last couple ...
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Glovers to hold bread open day
Lancashire’s Glovers Bakery is to showcase its new range of speciality and healthy breads by holding its first open day on Saturday.The firm has linked up with ingredients supplier Zeelandia for the event. It hopes to inspire and educate shoppers about artisan breads, with demonstrations, tastings and ...
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Value rise for bread
Bread sales have gone up in value across the board over the last year, apart from the white in-store bakery sector, TNS Worldpanel data reveals.The data shows that while brown in-store loaf sales rose by 2.1% to £58 million for the year to 25 February, 2007, white in-store bread ...
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Briefs
n Administrators say they are now talking to just one potential buyer for Hull-based bakery chain Skeltons, which has been trading in administration since March. Negotiations are expected to conclude next week, said a spokeswoman for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.n Rich Products, supplier of premium frozen and ambient bakery products to the retail ...
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Briefs
n Administrators say they are now talking to just one potential buyer for Hull-based bakery chain Skeltons, which has been trading in administration since March. Negotiations are expected to conclude next week, said a spokeswoman for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.n Rich Products, supplier of premium frozen and ambient bakery products to the retail ...
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Owner change for Buxton Spa
Buxton Spa Bakery has seen control of the family-owned company pass to a third generation, following a management buyout.Chairman Peter Higgins retired and handed over full control of the £5 million turnover business to his son, the current MD, Mike Higgins, who said he plans to focus on developing the ...