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n Consumer confidence in the internet means that 65% of shoppers want to buy their Christmas gifts online this year. A report by Visa reveals that 81% of Britons believe shopping online saves time; 70% think it saves money.n Warburtons’ health and safety officer Derrick Watson is the first person ...
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Good year for Carr’s
The successful integration of two mills and strong sales of speciality flours have helped Cumbria-based miller Carr’s notch up healthy sales and profit increases.For the 52 weeks to 2 September 2006, Carr’s Milling Industries announced that its food division increased its operating profit to £3.3m from the previous year’s total ...
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Thompson named as Inter Link chief
Inter Link has appointed former group finance director Chris Thompson as chief executive.Thompson replaces Paul Griffiths, who left the cake company in October to focus on his charitable quest to restore a monastery in Manchester.Thompson joined Inter Link in 2004 and had been acting chief executive since Griffiths’ departure. The ...
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Commodities tracker
The 2006 International Conference of Dried Grape Producing Countries was held in Monterey, California last month. Representatives from countries, including the USA, Turkey, Greece, Chile, South Africa and Australia, swapped information on harvests, production and marketing at the event.Of particular relevance to bakers is the supply of sultanas and ...
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Health focus at conference
Some 150 participants gained an insight into opportunities to optimise consumer health at an international conference hosted in Copenhagen last month by ingredients supplier Danisco.Among the healthy ingredients discussed were plants used by the holistic Indian healing system ayurveda, beneficial probiotic bacteria and prebiotic ingredients.Four of Danisco’s research scientists presented ...
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Consumer watch
I like convenient food that is simple, plain and easy to eat, without being too messy.For lunch, I make cheese and ham sarnies from soft, white Warburtons buns that are already cut for you or buy Ginsters Simply Chicken sandwiches on malted brown bread from the shop near university. I ...
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Factory expansion at Ginsters
Ginsters has opened a £3.5m extension to its savouries factory in Cornwall with a promise to boost its purchase of local produce.The company, which has annual sales of £225m, said it already spends about £9m a year on local supplies of beef, swedes, potatoes, onions and cheese and that it ...
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Northern profits slump
Northern Foods rejected City suggestions that it would fail to get the £200m it was seeking for the pastry, cakes, speciality bread and flour milling businesses.Remaining disposals were "progressing in line with plans to achieve £200m total proceeds" said Northern, as it unveiled a 38% fall in pre-tax profit on ...
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Dorothy Biscuits
These tasty orange biscuits come from a collection of 215 recipes compiled by a professional baker, Fredrick Vine, in his book Biscuits for Bakers: Easy to Make and Profitable to Sell, which was published in 1896. He recommended selling these biscuits at 1 shilling a pound. In today’s terms that’s ...
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Tate & Lyle sales rise 9%
Supplier Tate & Lyle has posted strong results, thanks to its profitable value-added food and industrial ingredients sectors.Interim results for the six months ended 30 September saw sales at the company rise 9%, to £2,039 m (from £1,868 m), due to a strong first half in Food & Industrial Ingredients, ...
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ABF revenue lower
Associated British Foods said its Allied Bakeries division had seen "a very disappointing year", as it posted preliminary results for the year ended 16 September this week.There were revenue declines in Kingsmill and own label, and profitability declined sharply. The new management team has developed plans for the reinvigoration of ...
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Flour: price up again
The price of flour is set to rise by another £25 a tonne before Christmas, as increased costs continue to hit the milling sector.The major millers Rank Hovis and ADM Milling are preparing to announce a second round of price increases, just four months after they last put their prices ...
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Brown made COO of Bakehouse
Continental pastries and speciality bread producer Bakehouse restructured last month, with former sales director Tony Brown promoted to chief operating officer.Brown will oversee the company’s day-to-day running and implementation of strategy. Meanwhile, Peter Drew has been appointed as innovations director, a post which was created to develop Bakehouse’s position ...
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Reporting in - Gordon Polson, director,Federation of Bakers
It has been a busy 12 months since the industry announced its plans to reduce salt in bread and we are already making significant strides in meeting our targets.The Federation has for many years taken a positive and proactive approach to salt reduction. Salt levels in bread have been reduced ...
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Warburtons to open new bakery in south
Baker Warburtons has revealed it will open another bakery in the south in the next two years, as nationwide expansion continues.Category marketing controller Sarah Miskell told British Baker it will first open a second bread line at its Enfield bakery in early 2007 to support further expansion in the south.Miskell ...
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Three Cooks’ management make rescue bid
Management of retail bakery Three Cooks said they remain locked in rescue talks with administators after the chain collapsed last week.Administrators Tenon Recovery closed 37 loss-making sites after being called in on November 1, with around 250 job losses.The Solihull-based chain, which had 158 shops, said it appointed administrators because ...
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Greggs blames mild and wet weather for poor trading
Greggs blamed unseasonably mild and wet weather for particularly disappointing trading in the four weeks to 7 October.The bakery group announced like-for-like sales in the second half of the year (19 weeks to 28 October) up 0.2% and it added that the Christmas period would be critical to its success ...
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Naan bread likely cause of UCB fire
A fire that destroyed part of United Central Bakeries’ (UCB) West Lothian factory last week is believed to have started in a naan oven.Police forensic teams are still investigating the blaze, which broke out at the Whitehill Industrial Estate during the night-shift. Eye-witnesses said that a clump of bread caught ...
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Briefs
n Sales of New York Bagel Company-branded bagels have increased 30% in the last few weeks following a TV advertising campaign. Owner, Maple Leaf Bakery UK, said sales were flying since the adverts first aired on 6 October.n International food and drink exhibition IFE 07 will showcase 45 confectionery and ...