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"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 ...
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CSM to off-load French factory
Netherlands-based food company CSM, which owns BakeMark UK, is to sell off part of its French subsidiary, Delices de la Tour, to French baker Panavi for approximately E15m.CSM will sell the Delices de la Tour factory in Le Mans, which specialises in ’beignets’ and frozen pastries. All 140 factory employees ...
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CSM to off-load French factory
Netherlands-based food company CSM, which owns BakeMark UK, is to sell off part of its French subsidiary, Delices de la Tour, to French baker Panavi for approximately E15m.CSM will sell the Delices de la Tour factory in Le Mans, which specialises in ’beignets’ and frozen pastries. All 140 factory employees ...
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Ginsters gets subs rolling
Ginsters has added ’submarine’ rolls as it develops its sandwich range, with fillings including chargrilled chicken and bacon, double cheese and onion and ham, egg and tomato."We recognise the importance of being able to offer variety, especially to customers who regularly shop in the same store for their lunch," said ...
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Ginsters gets subs rolling
Ginsters has added ’submarine’ rolls as it develops its sandwich range, with fillings including chargrilled chicken and bacon, double cheese and onion and ham, egg and tomato."We recognise the importance of being able to offer variety, especially to customers who regularly shop in the same store for their lunch," said ...
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Your Letters
As one of the 800 members who do not use training from the National Association of Master Bakers, I too am a little fed up with the near hysteria over the Board’s decision to look for better quality and more cost-effective training for our members. As CEO Gill Brooks Lonican’s ...
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Packaging watch
As part of Marks & Spencer’s recently announced £200m, eco-friendly Plan A, it is pledging to reduce the use of packaging by 25%. In addition, packaging will be made from sustainable materials or recycled sources, such as cardboard, glass and plastic.The plan sets out to restrict the range of packaging ...
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Packaging watch
As part of Marks & Spencer’s recently announced £200m, eco-friendly Plan A, it is pledging to reduce the use of packaging by 25%. In addition, packaging will be made from sustainable materials or recycled sources, such as cardboard, glass and plastic.The plan sets out to restrict the range of packaging ...
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January - March Highlights in the coming months include the Hospitality 2007 exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham and the annual competitions of the Sheffield and Rotheram Craft Bakers
JANUARY20 - 21 Bread Matters Fundamental Location: Bread Matters, CumbriaContact, tel: 01768 881899email: andrew@breadmatters.com22 - 23 Essential Skills For Working With ChocolateLocation: The Slattery School of Excellence, ManchesterContact, tel: 0161 7679303email: school@slattery.co.uk22 - 24 Hospitality 2007Location: NEC, BirminghamContact, tel: 01672 564099email: hospitality@freshrm.co.uk24 Chocolate Wedding and Celebration CakesLocation: The Slattery ...
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Consumer watch
The last time I went to a craft bakery, I bought two turkey rolls on my way to work. I bought them for convenience because there are always people waiting to be served in the supermarket.I also find the rolls are better quality and fresher than pre-packed sandwiches. They also ...
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International activity
Organisers of Interbake China 2007 - one of Asia’s largest international bakery exhibitions - say that Western expertise is very much in demand in the country, whether for machines, production, product design or packaging.With a population of 1.3 billion people and annual economic growth of 10% over the past nine ...
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Interest hovers around Ferrari’s
Administrators say "a number of serious, interested parties" have come forward as potential buyers of Welsh bakery chain Ferrari’s, which called in administrators on 18 December.Cleary Foods, Ferrari’s parent company, blamed "lower sales and higher costs" as it put the 60-shop chain and its Swansea-based wholesale sister business, Celtic Savouries, ...
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MPs back bill for local communities
A Sustainable Communities Bill, which sets out to protect high street retailers, was backed by 175 votes to 17 at its second reading at the House of Commons last week.The Bill, sponsored by Conservative MP Nick Hurd, aims to give local communities powers to tackle social, economic and environmental ...
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Gordon Polson, director, Federation of Bakers
The move in Brussels to abolish national legislation on prescribed quantities for pre-packed products, such as bread, was a hot topic for bakers in 2006, and will continue to be so this year.Prescribed quantities for bread have a long history in the UK, stretching back well beyond current legislation. ...
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NA throws its weight behind Baking Industry Exhibition
The National Association of Master Bakers (NA) has given its support to the Baking Industry Exhibition, which takes place from 6-9 April, 2008, at the Birmingham NEC.Chief executive of the NA Gill Brooks Lonican said: "The NA, British Baker and Birmingham all go back a long way. Birmingham NEC is ...
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Regional bread winner selected
Suffolk baker Mark Felgate was named as "The Nation’s Tastiest Baker" of regional bread as part of the eighth Farmhouse Breakfast Week celebrations this week.Felgate, of The Cake Shop of Woodbridge, Suffolk (owned by Peter Wright), picked up the prize for his loaves including the Suffolk Trencher, an Anglo Saxon ...
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Tesco breads grow
Tesco’s bakery sales are ahead of budget and up year-on-year, category manager Andy Brocklehurst told British Baker this week.Speaking after the supermarket reported record sales, as it delivered its Christmas trading statement last week, Brocklehurst said there had been good growth across the bakery category. Sales growth was driven by ...
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Briefs
nSTOP PRESS: Women can halve their risk of breast cancer by eating a diet rich in wholemeal bread and wholegrain cereal, according to new research. The Leeds University study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology this week, tracked the eating habits of more than 35,000 women over seven years.n ...