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Starbucks’ stock ascending
Starbucks’ international sales rose 30% to $387m while profit increased by 9% to $21m in the second quarter of its financial year.The chain said the increase in revenue was due to product sales and royalty revenues from opening 456 stores in the last 12 months.Starbucks reported a 20% increase in ...
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Baking Industry Awards: last call
Last call for entries into the 2007 Baking Industry Awards! The deadline for entry into all 12 categories is Friday 18 May. But there is still time to download a form from [http://www.bakeryawards.co.uk] and send it back to our events department, post-haste.There is a £500 first prize in each of ...
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Baking Industry Awards: last call
Last call for entries into the 2007 Baking Industry Awards! The deadline for entry into all 12 categories is Friday 18 May. But there is still time to download a form from [http://www.bakeryawards.co.uk] and send it back to our events department, post-haste.There is a £500 first prize in each of ...
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British Bakeries axes more jobs at Plymouth bakery
Sixty British Bakeries workers who thought their jobs were saved last month have been told that their Plymouth factory will stop manufacturing at the end of July.British Bakeries axed 79 jobs in April after a business review, but said it would keep its breadmaking plant open on an interim basis ...
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British Bakeries axes more jobs at Plymouth bakery
Sixty British Bakeries workers who thought their jobs were saved last month have been told that their Plymouth factory will stop manufacturing at the end of July.British Bakeries axed 79 jobs in April after a business review, but said it would keep its breadmaking plant open on an interim basis ...
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Budding bakers pick up prizes
Bakery students submitted some 694 entries, in bread and confectionery categories, including Live Piping, Innovation and Morning Goods, at the student conference in Blackpool last weekend.Winners included Ian Sutherland from Blackburn, who picked up the Horton Trophy and Sarah Hughes from Leicester who won the Gerry Cup.Supplier and conference ...
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Budding bakers pick up prizes
Bakery students submitted some 694 entries, in bread and confectionery categories, including Live Piping, Innovation and Morning Goods, at the student conference in Blackpool last weekend.Winners included Ian Sutherland from Blackburn, who picked up the Horton Trophy and Sarah Hughes from Leicester who won the Gerry Cup.Supplier and conference ...
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Briefs
n Warburtons has appointed Richard Hayes, formerly of Allied Domecq, as marketing director. Category marketing controller Sarah Miskell has been promoted to category director.n The European Commission wants input from the food industry on its draft proposal on the review of the Animal By-products Regulation No 1774/2002. It has launched ...
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n Warburtons has appointed Richard Hayes, formerly of Allied Domecq, as marketing director. Category marketing controller Sarah Miskell has been promoted to category director.n The European Commission wants input from the food industry on its draft proposal on the review of the Animal By-products Regulation No 1774/2002. It has launched ...
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Butt gains Sainsbury’s listing
Butt Foods has won listings for its innovative bread boats and bread bowls at Sainsbury’s, after impressing buyers at a Dragon’s Den-style interrogation.The company was picked to meet the chain as part of the ’Supply Something New’ supplier scout scheme for regional producers, arranged by Food from Britain and Sainsbury’s ...
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Butt gains Sainsbury’s listing
Butt Foods has won listings for its innovative bread boats and bread bowls at Sainsbury’s, after impressing buyers at a Dragon’s Den-style interrogation.The company was picked to meet the chain as part of the ’Supply Something New’ supplier scout scheme for regional producers, arranged by Food from Britain and Sainsbury’s ...
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Commodities tracker
An International Grains Council’s Market Report, released on 27 April, says that world wheat stocks "are expected to remain tight."In view of the substantial rise in production needed to prevent a further decline in stocks, wheat markets responded nervously to potential threats from adverse weather, notably the early April frost ...
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Commodities tracker
An International Grains Council’s Market Report, released on 27 April, says that world wheat stocks "are expected to remain tight."In view of the substantial rise in production needed to prevent a further decline in stocks, wheat markets responded nervously to potential threats from adverse weather, notably the early April frost ...
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Consumer watch
When it comes to shopping, I prefer to support the independent trader where possible.When I was a kid, you really had a choice of bakers. You were greeted with your name or asked what mum or nan had sent you there for - there was a real sense of community.But ...
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Consumer watch
When it comes to shopping, I prefer to support the independent trader where possible.When I was a kid, you really had a choice of bakers. You were greeted with your name or asked what mum or nan had sent you there for - there was a real sense of community.But ...
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Oddies’ raiders face jail
Two "professional burglars" who repeatedly targeted bakery chain Oddies’ shops in East Lancashire could be facing jail terms.Burnley Magistrates heard how Paul Ludlam, 34, of Ardwick Street, Burnley, and Keith Kavanagh, 40, of Fleet Street, Nelson, were partners in crime at five separate raids at the 15-shop chain.Ludlam admitted eight ...
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Oddies’ raiders face jail
Two "professional burglars" who repeatedly targeted bakery chain Oddies’ shops in East Lancashire could be facing jail terms.Burnley Magistrates heard how Paul Ludlam, 34, of Ardwick Street, Burnley, and Keith Kavanagh, 40, of Fleet Street, Nelson, were partners in crime at five separate raids at the 15-shop chain.Ludlam admitted eight ...
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Inter Link sale talks
Dublin-based baker McCambridge is in early-stage acquisition talks with struggling own-label cake manufacturer Inter Link.The privately-owned company, which has a history of acquisitions in Ireland and the UK, recently bought a 9.1% stake in Inter Link and has now made an unsolicited approach for the firm.Inter Link said preliminary discussions ...
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Inter Link sale talks
Dublin-based baker McCambridge is in early-stage acquisition talks with struggling own-label cake manufacturer Inter Link.The privately-owned company, which has a history of acquisitions in Ireland and the UK, recently bought a 9.1% stake in Inter Link and has now made an unsolicited approach for the firm.Inter Link said preliminary discussions ...
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Market research service launched
Bakers in the West Midlands can get a competitive edge by using a new free, online market research service called Food Insights.The Heart of England fine foods business website is hosting the service at [http://www.heff.co.uk/] foodinsights, which offers food and drink companies industry reports, analysis and statistics.Funder, West Midlands ...