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Irish use ’superfood’ campaign
Wholegrain bread is being promo-ted as a ’superfood’ across Ireland by food safety body Safefood.Radio adverts with quirky voiceovers create personalities for a range of goods, including wholemeal bread. The bread character explains that switching from white bread to wholegrain can provide health benefits, as wholegrain breads contain carbohydrates, ...
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Vision Capital realigns Northern Food purchases
Vision Capital has ordered a shake-up of former Northern Foods’ bakery businesses, after its purchase of the assets was approved by shareholders on 15 January.Some 50 jobs are to go at Pork Farm Bowyers in Trowbridge, which makes pork pies, sausage rolls and similar products, as part of changes planned ...
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NA takes tough decision to close training section
The National Association of Master Bakers (NA) board of directors met in London last week and decided to close its training section, possibly affecting five assessors.Gill Brooks Lonican, chief executive of the NA since August said: "We have taken this decision after many years of trying to keep costs to ...
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FoB reveals conference line-up
The Federation of Bakers’ (FoB) seventh annual conference will be held on 16 May, with a variety of high-profile speakers.These include Dame Deidre Hutton, chair of the Food Standards Agency, and Guy Farrant, director of food at Marks & Spencer.Jeya Henry, professor of human nutrition at Oxford Brookes University, ...
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Organic flour crisis
Organic wheat prices have hit an "historic high" as a supply crisis combines with soaring demand.The price of organic wheat has risen from £200 to £300 a tonne over the last three months, ADM Milling marketing manager John Hastwell told British Baker. He said: "The global picture is of reduced ...
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Ingredients watch
A major trend in the industry will be increased satiety, making the consumer feel full for longer. By increasing the amount of soluble and insoluble fibres in bakery goods - with such products having a low glycaemic index - energy is released slowly and steadily, helping to control appetite as ...
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Liquidation for Pat-A-Cake shop
A Pat-A-Cake bakery and sandwich shop in Workington, has been put up for sale after the business went into liquidation last year (British Baker, 1 December, 2006) .Fifty-four people lost their jobs when the company closed its bakery and six shops in November.Liquidator Tenon Recovery said the firm’s trade had ...
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viewpoint
In the past 25 years, the face of retailing across this country has changed completely. In have come the big supermarkets and out have gone the local community shops - bakers often being a typical example. And I see nothing in the preliminary report from the Competition Commission that will ...
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5p expected on branded bread
`City analysts are expecting the price of branded bread to go up by around 5p on an 800g loaf next month, as plant bakers seek to cover rising flour and energy costs.David Lang of Investec said he was expecting prices to move on branded loaves this month after plant bakers ...
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Aga bakery division does well
Equipment supplier Aga Foodservice said its bakery operation continued to perform well, in a trading update this week.The division, which includes Mono Equipment and Williams Refrigeration, was boosted by acquisitions including Eloma in Germany. And new central European markets contributed well, said chief executive William McGrath.Mono general manager Andrew Jones ...
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Wm Reed bakery show gets industry backing
William Reed Events & Exhibitions promised "massive investment" as it unveiled plans for a new Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) this week.Highlights of the new show, which will take place at Birmingham’s NEC every two years, will include a demonstration theatre, artisan master classes, competitions and a working bakery.The exhibition will ...
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The bagel boys grow up
It’s amazing that this all started with a business plan and a warehouse in near Rotherham," says Maple Leaf Bakery’s managing director, Peter Maycock.Eight years on, the speciality breads company has a £90m turnover and 1,000 employees. The roll call of its businesses includes New York Bagels, the French ...
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SAMB: Gangmaster law to hit bakeries
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers (SAMB) has warned bakers to be aware of new "poorly defined" gangmaster licensing laws.The Gangmaster Licensing Act is primarily aimed at employment agencies, but also introduces a formal system of licensing workers on the processing and packaging side of bakery businesses, said SAMB ...
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Christmas puds boost Northern’s bakery division
Northern Foods said its remaining bakery business returned to growth of 1% in the third quarter, in a trading update this week.Its Christmas pudding business had a good seasonal period, it said. But year-to-date revenue was 4.9% lower in its remaining bakery companies than the previous year, for the third ...
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Bargain bread in UK
Supermarket bread on sale in London is cheaper than bread on sale in Cairo, Bangkok, Beijing and even Manchester, latest figures from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveal.The data, supplied exclusively to British Baker, shows a standard kilo of bread cost 61p in a London supermarket.That meant London’s supermarkets ranked ...
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Children’s Trust has merry Xmas, thanks to Biggs
Mark Biggs and his mother Sally, of Bigg’s Bakery in Littlehampton, West Sussex, raised over £4,000 for charity the Children’s Trust between September and Christmas.They held fund-raising events including a jacket potato supper and a raffle, to give eight children living at the Children’s Trust’s Hawthorn House in Tadworth, Surrey, ...
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Briefs
n Quiznos, the US sandwich chain, has appointed Greg Brenneman, the former Burger King chief executive, as its new president and chief executive. Brenneman left Burger King in April and currently manages TurnWorks, a private equity firm, which has acquired an undisclosed stake in Quiznos.n Confectionery specialist Thorntons said like-for-like ...
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Irish pitta chip plant to open
A new flavoured pitta chips business is due to start production in County Donegal, north-west Ireland, in April.Largo Foods, which has its headquarters in Ashbourne, Co Meath, has set up a new subsidiary - Pita Éireann Teo - to make a range of flavoured snack food products from pitta bread.The ...
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Commodities - flour
Flour cost rises of over 25% will result in a 10% increase in bread prices in the Republic of Ireland (approximately 10-17 cents loaf), according to the Irish Bread Bakers Association (IBBA), which represents the major plant bakeries in Ireland.Grain and flour prices have increased by E20-30 per tonne and ...
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Real Good results
The Real Good Food Company this week said that overall trading "exceeded expectations" last year, although Hayden’s performance, part of its bakery division, had fallen short of predicted levels.According to the group’s pre-close statement, released January 16, the bakery division’s sales were up by 6%. The division includes Hayden’s Bakeries ...