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Storming wheat prices
A price rise of up to £55 on breadmaking flour in the next two months is now tipped as "more likely than not", after wheat prices rose nearly 10% in the last week.The breadmaking wheat price for November was £142 a tonne (delivered to the north-west) last week, with industry ...
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As the saying goes ’it never rains, but it pours’. Or if June is anything to go by, it rains, pours, storms and floods, non-stop and without an end in sight.For a depressingly autumnal mid-summer month the elements have taken their toll, with forward wheat prices rising steeply this week ...
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ABF to build biofuel plant with partners
Associated British Foods has announced that it is to build a £200m biofuel plant in the UK with BP and DuPont, a move which will make ABF the major producer of biofuel in the UK.ABF and BP will each hold 45% of the joint venture and science company DuPont will ...
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International activity
Food from Britain (FFB) France recently held an annual two-day event in Paris for UK food producers, including bakers.One of the most significant points to come out of the seminar, according to Martine Foulloy at the FFB French office, was that French consumers were increasingly interested in buying "very ...
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Scots manufacturer adopts traffic lights
Baker Paterson Arran has announced that it is the first Scottish food manufacturer to adopt the FSA’s front-of-pack traffic light signposting scheme.This comes with the launch of Bronte Organic, a range of orangutan-friendly cookies, which were first unveiled at the opening of Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London, earlier this ...
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Floods cause chaos around the country
This week’s extreme weather and severe flooding has caused chaos for bakers, millers and distributors around England and Wales.Production at Maple Leaf UK’s Rotherham bakery ground to a halt on Tuesday, as the electricity went down on its industrial estate.Guy Hall, deputy managing director, told British Baker the building was ...
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BIE board meets to discuss plans for next year’s show
The Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) board of patrons has held its inaugural meeting.Andrew Reed, chairman of the board, told patrons representing both exhibitor and visitor sectors about plans for the show, which will take place on 6-9 April 2008.Reed, representing organisers William Reed, said more than 63% of space had ...
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Briefs
n The Flour Advisory Bureau is working with HGCA on an updated education website and programme - The Grain Chain - which will be launched in September. It will feature interactive information in line with the curriculum for key stages two and three, with topics including healthy eating, growing food ...
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Rate hikes a ’wake-up call’
Rising interest rates are a blessing in disguise for bakery businesses, according to Plimsoll’s latest research into the UK bakery market.With more than a quarter of bakery companies in more debt than ever, rising rates could act as a useful "wake-up call", said David Pattison, senior analyst at Plimsoll.Many bakeries ...
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College gets creative with cars
In the latest bid to attract bakery students, Sheffield-based Castle College has undergone an exercise in creative publicity.Picking up on the media attention surrounding a TV advert, in which a Skoda Fabia is created out of cake, bakery students went in their whites to the launch of the real Fabia ...
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Julian Hunt, communications director, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
Thanks to EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou for providing the inspiration for this column. That’s because when he launched the European Commission’s new strategy for tackling the health issues related to poor diet and low levels of physical activity, Kyprianou laid down an interesting challenge to our industry."What consumers eat ...
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Longmynd snaps up Smiths Flour Mills in low-key deal
Smiths Flour Mills has been acquired by the investment vehicle behind ingredients supplier Edme.Longmynd Industrials bought Smiths from Vision Capital earlier this month in a low-key deal. Longmynd is run by entrepreneurs David Thompson and Edward Whitley, and also owns Anglia Maltings Group, the parent company of Edme, with different ...
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Flour price hike looms
A significant price rise on flour is being tipped as "inevitable" as rising wheat prices on the world market hit the baking industry.The rise could be £40 per tonne on breadmaking wheat, industry sources suggest, which could lead to bread price increases of up to 10p per 800g loaf.National Association ...
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Fortification: will it hit trade?
The industry is divided over whether mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid will hit international trade.The Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Association (BCCCA) said it feared that mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid would have a negative impact. The BCCCA said it was concerned that consumers may choose ...
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Struggling Inter Link hopes to ’wrap up a sale soon’
Troubled cake company Inter Link Foods is showing potential buyers around its premises, including Irish food company McCambridge, "at least one other trade buyer" and financial buyers, chairman Jeremy Hamer said this week.McCambridge, which already owns Queen of Hearts, Hussey’s Bakery and West of England Bakeries, was furthest advanced in ...
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Packaging watch
Leading names in the baking industry are the latest to sign up to the government-backed Courtauld Commitment, which is an action plan designed to reduce the amount of wasted packaging.WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has announced that the new signatories include Duchy Originals and Premier Foods.They have pledged to ...
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Wheat prices are very volatile at the moment and the impact on this industry should not be underestimated (pg 4). A few months ago bread prices going over the £1 mark made headlines in many of the national newspapers. Last week I wrote about a range of Sainsbury’s in-store speciality ...
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Andrew Pollard, chairman, British Society of Baking
Half way though the year and Federation of Bakers production figures show decreases of up to 6% year-on-year. This is despite Allied Bakeries’ major re-launch and TV advertising activity from Warburtons and British Bakeries.Consumers appear to have reduced their purchases of bread at Christmas as normal, but sales have not ...
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On the hunt for Xmas card artists
California Raisins has teamed up with the Bakers’ Benevolent Society to search for a budding artist in the baking industry to create the society’s charity Christmas card.It is looking for two of the best designs, which stand to win a first prize of £1,000 and second prize of £500. The ...
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Bakers in price war crossfire
Plant bakers have been hit as supermarkets Asda, Tesco and Morrisons lock into a new price war.Asda announced last week that it was lowering 10,000 prices worth £250m in a staggered programme. And Tesco followed by saying it was to slash £270m off prices this week. Then Morrisons this week ...