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I used to go to Greggs every other day when I lived in Headingley, Leeds. There was a shop on my street so it was very convenient to buy bread, sandwiches or pasties. Occasionally I’d buy doughnuts there too. I also used to go to Ainsleys of Leeds a lot ...
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La Fornaia tie up delivers for Co-op
British Bakeries began delivering baked goods from speciality supplier La Fornaia to the Co-op group this week in a move that the retailer said would open the door to other regional suppliers.The plant baker, which supplies the Co-op’s standard bread range, has agreed to collect from La Fornaia, based in ...
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Show time for Cuisine to Go
IAWS has launched the Cuisine to Go brand, which includes hot food lines and modular display equipment, as it targets the ’food-to-go’ market.The new range is aimed at convenience retailers and also bakers who wish to incorporate a wider range, marketing director David Girdler told British Baker.Launched at last week’s ...
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Doughnut week
Craft bakers including Prudens of Hertfordshire, Campbell’s of Crieff in Perthshire and JW Rose of Sheffield have signed up to take part in this year’s National Doughnut Week.Warings of Tilehurst, Berkshire, Birmingham College of Food and Technology and the Hot Bread Shop of St Anne’s, Alderney, will also be taking ...
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Yummy roll-out gathers pace
Turkey specialist Bernard Matthews says it has received a high level of interest from high street and takeaway retailers as it prepares to roll out its new Yummy food-to-go brand.The range, including sandwiches, salads, smoothies and snacks, was launched in 70 Superdrug stores last November and rolled out to 297 ...
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Good start for IAWS
International food company IAWS Group this week announced that it has had a good start to 2007 with a "very satisfactory" performance achieved across the business.The Delice de France and Cuisine de France owner’s interim results for the half year ended 31 January 2007, stated that Group revenue was 17.3% ...
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I have just returned from the Délifrance Sandwich World Cup Final (pg 4 and future issue) in France. It was sheer delight to hear French craft baker and chairman of judges Jean-Luc Pouvaran speak in passionate terms about mother doughs, the art of kneading and slow fermentation to produce ...
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I am sorry to hear about the troubles afflicting Skeltons of Hull (pg 4). The family company has 43 shops and 670 employees. It is continuing to trade in administration and blames price increases and supermarket competition.Whatever the reasons, this has been a long time coming - six years in ...
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Gerard NelsonBaker PerkinsGerard Nelson has been appointed global sales manager for Baker Perkins’ range of equipment for the biscuit and cracker industries. He joins the company from an Italian capital equipment manufacturer, where he was responsible for managing a network of distributors and agents in South America, Europe, India and ...
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International activity
Bakery suppliers including RHM Bread Bakeries, Bagel Nash, Mr Bagels, Walkers Shortbread, Fuerst Day Lawson and GR Wright & Sons will be exhibiting at international trade fair, Anuga, held in Cologne from 13-17 October.The show is to incorporate Anuga Organic for the first time, a show for organic goods.The amount ...
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Kirk Hunter, chief executive of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers
Politicians are putting the finishing touches to the various parties’ manifestos for the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May.The experts predict that the election result will be too close to call. We are told that the priority battleground will be on who has the right strategy to develop the Scottish economy. ...
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Sheffield competition attracts healthy turnout
Nearly 50 craft bakers and students from South Yorkshire, took part in the annual Sheffield Bakery competition on 28 February.The annual competition was open to students attending Sheffield College, Doncaster College and Rother Valley College, as well as local craft bakers, including Staniforths (Rotherham), H Hofmann and Sons (Wakefield) and, ...
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Catex woos bakers
Dairyland Cuisine is to distribute Pat the Baker breads to foodservice outlets throughout Ireland. The company introduced the breads to its customers at the Catex tradeshow in Dublin last month."We want to be a one-stop-shop, so bread is a great addition to our range," Dave Kiernan told British Baker. "We’ve ...
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Co-op revamps bakery offer
The Co-operative Group is overhauling its bakery department, as part of a new strategy to make its 3,000 shops "more exciting".The group launched a "truly irresistible" premium brand this week, including speciality bakery products, benchmarked on quality against Marks & Spencer. Co-op category development manager, produce and bakery, Jill McCann ...
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Potential buyers rumoured to be eyeing up Benjys’ sites
Sandwich chain Benjys’ 47-shop estate is being broken up, after it went into administration on 6 February for the second time in a year.Private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, which bought Benjys in July, appointed KPMG administrators after building up rent arrears. However, the leases of 41 sites had not yet ...
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Boost for UK bread
The bread and bakery products market saw its best year of sales growth in four years in 2006, according to the new Key Note 2007 report, of which British Baker has gained an exclusive preview.The report says that the bread and bakery products market was worth £3.27bn at retail selling ...
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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 ...