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n Chatwins has invested £40,000 in setting up a new venture called Chatwins Direct. The bakery will deliver lunch to workers in the Crewe and Nantwich area, including sandwiches, drinks, homemade soups, pies and pasties. Chatwins aims to create a fleet of eight vehicles over the next year.n Krispy ...
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Pret A Manger plans business expansion
Sandwich chain Pret A Manger plans to open at least 25 new sites around the UK by the end of the year and overhaul 85 of its 155 existing sites.Commercial director Simon Hargraves told British Baker that the company plans to open in locations including Southampton and Cheshire Oaks. Around ...
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Renshaw plays host to Richemont Club members
Members of the Richemont Club (Great Britain) descended on Renshaw in Liverpool last week for a tour around the factory and to see live demonstrations at its test bakery. About 40 members and guests of the Richemont Club attended the event on 28 February.The first demonstration was given by ...
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Commodities watch
Bakers and millers expecting to see a continued drop in energy costs may be disappointed, NABIM director general Alex Waugh has warned. Tensions with Iran, over the detention of 15 British navy personnel in the Gulf, have pushed up oil prices, which have been rising to their highest levels this ...
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Costa turns in positive sales
Costa Coffee’s sales were up by 22.1% and 6.7% like-for-like in the 50 weeks to 15 February 2007, parent Whitbread said last week.In a trading update, Alan Parker, chief executive said a rapid expansion was continuing at Costa and sister company Premier Travel Inn. He said: "The food offer has ...
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Finsbury looks to organic expansion
Finsbury Food Group said it planned to expand its organic bread business, as it posted interim results for the six months to 31 December on 30 March.The company, which acquired celebration cakes company Lightbody of Hamilton in February, said it saw continued sales growth across its business, with sales ...
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Paul tests out takeaway format
fPaul UK, the French bakery chain, is trialling a "takeaway" store, near Fenchurch Street in London, while continuing to expand its sit-down café format.Paul’s 16 other sites in London are 1,800sq ft to 2,000sq ft with seating internally and externally. The new 500sq ft format has no internal seating. All ...
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Health watch
Burton’s Foods, baker of Jammie Dodgers and Maryland Cookies, has become the latest supplier to remove hydrogenated vegetable oil from all of its products.The company has pledged that its portfolio of over 100 products will be free from artificial trans fats from now on.Retailers Asda, Boots, Co-op, Marks & ...
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Plimsoll seeks out ’hidden jewels’
According to business analyst Plimsoll Publishing, new technology can predict the success or failure of almost any proposed acquisition in the UK and Nor- thern Ireland.The technology, Valuations, Industry analysis, Business acquisitions (VIBE) draws on a database of information from the age of a firm’s directors to details about ...
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Soreen sale rumour refuted
Inter Link Foods has dismissed press reports that it is to sell its malt loaf business Soreen.Reports last week had suggested that Soreen was being marketed for sale by the cake company, in a move to to reduce its debt. But chairman Jeremy Hamer told British Baker that they ...
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ABF’s bakery profits drop
Associated British Foods (ABF) said profits in its bakery sector were lower than last year, due to a poor performance by Allied Bakeries.Prior to entering the close period for its interim results to 3 March 2007, ABF announced last week in its Pre-Close Period Trading Update that the competitive UK ...
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Order flour with a click of the mouse on ADM website
Flour-buyers can order online in a new ADM Milling initiative which it claims is an industry first.The UK’s largest independent flour miller has set up [http://www.4flour.co.uk] which lets customers order and manage their flour and bakery ingredients online.Retail craft bakers and bakery food manufacturers can now access their business account ...
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Cake deal agreed
Finsbury Food Group’s £37.5m takeover of celebration cake company the Lightbody Group has been agreed by the Finsbury board and shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting.As reported in British Baker (see 2 February, pg 4), Finsbury claims the deal will make it the leading player in the UK’s celebration ...
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Plimsoll: all change for top bakery jobs
A wave of new appointments at senior management level among bakery companies in the UK is set to prompt a radical change in their behaviour, says Plimsoll.A new report from the industry analyst says there have been 722 new appointments at director level among the top 980 companies in the ...
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Apprenticeship consultation
Improve, the sector skills council for food and drink, has started consultation with employers on plans for a new framework for apprenticeship programmes."This will be a crucial reform," said Jack Matthews, Improve’s chief executive, who added that completed apprenticeships in food and drink manufacturing subjects at Level 2 have more ...
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Steven Birrell, executive secretary, the Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers
Members of the Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers (ABIM) devote considerable resources to developing product specification documents for customers to help them comply with legislation, certification schemes and codes of practice, as well as answering any questions they might have.Communicating product specification data to customers, using different formats, is a ...
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UK bagel sales help boost Maple Leaf’s performance
Canadian company Maple Leaf Foods said last week that its UK bakery acquisitions contributed to a 7% rise in sales in its bakery group in the fourth quarter of 2006.The UK bakery business, best known for the New York Bagel Co brand, saw excellent performance, it said, benefiting from ...
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n Nearly 80% of 17,000 mothers who took part in an FSA online survey supported the Traffic Light Labelling scheme over the rival Guideline Daily Amount labelling scheme preferred by some retailers and manufacturers.n Denver Cottage Bakery of Ilkeston in Derbyshire has been fined more than £1,800 after mouse droppings ...
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Health to the fore at BSB Conference
Health is set to be a hot topic at the British Society of Baking’s Spring Conference. Two of the keynote speeches at the event will be ’Reducing salt in cakes and biscuits’ and ’Health and well-being’, delivered, respectively, by Dinnie Jordan and Laetitia Rocha.Jordan runs Kudos Blends, which formulates raising ...