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Bakkavor reveals UK plans after last year’s takeovers
Icelandic firm Bakkavor, which owns New Primebake, said it had strengthened its position in the UK, as it released its results for 2006 this week.The company reported an operating profit of £113.9m up 71% year on year, and total sales of £1.2bn, with like-for-like sales up 10% year on year.In ...
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Bakkavor reveals UK plans after last year’s takeovers
Icelandic firm Bakkavor, which owns New Primebake, said it had strengthened its position in the UK, as it released its results for 2006 this week.The company reported an operating profit of £113.9m up 71% year on year, and total sales of £1.2bn, with like-for-like sales up 10% year on year.In ...
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Immigration officers arrest workers at Allied factory
FIVE workers at the Allied Bakeries plant in Gateshead have been arrested by immigration officers on charges of working illegally.The officers quizzed 16 staff at the plant and arrested five on suspicion of having fake passports and fake asylum registration cards. The staff had come to the company through a ...
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Immigration officers arrest workers at Allied factory
FIVE workers at the Allied Bakeries plant in Gateshead have been arrested by immigration officers on charges of working illegally.The officers quizzed 16 staff at the plant and arrested five on suspicion of having fake passports and fake asylum registration cards. The staff had come to the company through a ...
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David Fursdon, president, Country Land & Business Association
I’m sure the baking industry would like more consumers to ’Just Ask’ whether the bread, pie or cakes they are buying are made locally or with British ingredients.The ’Just Ask’ campaign, by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), was launched by the Prime Minister and David Miliband, the Secretary ...
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Kirk Hunter, chief executive, Scottish Association of Master Bakers
As we enter 2007 the industry is facing up to major increases in costs. One local baker recently told me that he was experiencing the biggest increases in raw material prices in living memory. His tale is typical.The immediate problem is the announcement by the major flour millers of the ...
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Kirk Hunter, chief executive, Scottish Association of Master Bakers
As we enter 2007 the industry is facing up to major increases in costs. One local baker recently told me that he was experiencing the biggest increases in raw material prices in living memory. His tale is typical.The immediate problem is the announcement by the major flour millers of the ...
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Bakery at heart of Whole Foods
US natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market says the bakery department will be the centrepiece of its first UK megastore, which will open in Kensington, London in June.David Doctorow, vice president, North Atlantic region, said plans for the 75,000sq ft store in Kensington, London, are "progressing fantastically".The store ...
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Bakery at heart of Whole Foods
US natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market says the bakery department will be the centrepiece of its first UK megastore, which will open in Kensington, London in June.David Doctorow, vice president, North Atlantic region, said plans for the 75,000sq ft store in Kensington, London, are "progressing fantastically".The store ...
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Support grows for baking show
Miller Rank Hovis will take an 80sq m stand at the Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) on April 6-9 2008 at Birmingham’s NEC.Bakery Conservation Group, the UK representative for retarder prover company Koma, is also among exhibitors.Paul Morrow, president of student body the NFBSS/IBB Alliance has confirmed that BIE will ...
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Irish baking degree
The National Bakery School in Dublin is setting a precedent in Irish bakery education by starting a new baking degree course in September of this year.The three-year course will lead to a BSc qualification in Baking and Pastry Arts Management. According to Derek O’Brien, head of the school, it is ...
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Support grows for baking show
Miller Rank Hovis will take an 80sq m stand at the Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) on April 6-9 2008 at Birmingham’s NEC.Bakery Conservation Group, the UK representative for retarder prover company Koma, is also among exhibitors.Paul Morrow, president of student body the NFBSS/IBB Alliance has confirmed that BIE will ...
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Irish baking degree
The National Bakery School in Dublin is setting a precedent in Irish bakery education by starting a new baking degree course in September of this year.The three-year course will lead to a BSc qualification in Baking and Pastry Arts Management. According to Derek O’Brien, head of the school, it is ...
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Boycott high-salt bread, urges CASH
Pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) has called for a boycott of breads with high salt levels as part of its Salt Awareness Week campaign, which runs until February 4.It says that while many bakery products now contain significantly less salt than a few years ago, salt ...
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Boycott high-salt bread, urges CASH
Pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) has called for a boycott of breads with high salt levels as part of its Salt Awareness Week campaign, which runs until February 4.It says that while many bakery products now contain significantly less salt than a few years ago, salt ...
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Briefs
n Bakery retail group Lyndale Foods says it saw good trading in the run up to Christmas. The company, which operates the Maison Blanc, Sayers and Hampsons fascia, will complete a strategic review by April, chairman Sandy Birnie told British Baker.n TeaSmith, a new tea shop concept by John Kennedy ...
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Briefs
n Bakery retail group Lyndale Foods says it saw good trading in the run up to Christmas. The company, which operates the Maison Blanc, Sayers and Hampsons fascia, will complete a strategic review by April, chairman Sandy Birnie told British Baker.n TeaSmith, a new tea shop concept by John Kennedy ...
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Finsbury cake deal
Finsbury Food Group’s purchase of Lightbody Celebration Cakes will make it the leading player in the UK premium cakes market, it claimed this week.The premium bakery group announced this week it had agreed to buy Lightbody business, which saw £46m turnover in the year to April 2006, for £37.5m, ...
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Finsbury cake deal
Finsbury Food Group’s purchase of Lightbody Celebration Cakes will make it the leading player in the UK premium cakes market, it claimed this week.The premium bakery group announced this week it had agreed to buy Lightbody business, which saw £46m turnover in the year to April 2006, for £37.5m, ...
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Commodities tracker
"This year will be the year when demand for healthier eating options will push demand for nuts, dried fruit and seeds to all time high levels," said RM Curtis’ trading director Mark Setterfield in its new report - Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit, Dec 2006-Jan 2007.He explained: "Although increased demand ...