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Burger King feels heat in UK
Bakeries and sandwich shops are enticing fast food fans away from Burger King in the UK.The Miami-based company’s recent financial results statement highlighted poor performance in the UK. It blamed this on "perceptions about obesity and food-borne illness; and increased competition from sandwich shops, bakeries and other new restaurants".Burger King’s ...
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Commodities tracker
Information from 64,000 wheat samples and 22,000 barley samples has been received and analysed by HGCA for its final Cereals Quality Survey.It shows the UK has harvested another good quality wheat crop. Compared to recent years, average Hagberg and protein content is higher with specific weight slightly down and moisture ...
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Northen Foods signs skills deal
Northern Foods has signed a multi-union National Learning Agreement.It has teamed up with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, the Transport & General Workers Union and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers to give employees access to a wide range of courses from numeracy and literacy ...
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Ingredients watch
"Provenance and traceability are really important at the moment. Consumers are becoming more interested in the story behind their food and where it actually comes from.As a result, we are seeing increasing references to the origins of key ingredients on food packaging or menus.This is particularly noticeable where premium ...
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viewpoint
Flour prices seem set to rise - again! A formal announcement is due in the next few weeks but British Baker has gained advance knowledge that another price increase is imminent (pg 4).Before you feel like shouting "unjustified", most bakers I have spoken to say the corresponding bread price rises ...
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RHM’s £2m hit on wheat prices
RHM said its bread division had seen good growth as a result of price increases and customer wins, in a trading update for the last six months issued this week.But a delay in recovering higher wheat price rises cost around £2m in the first half of the year.RHM’s cakes division’s ...
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International activity
The Irish Bread Bakers Association (IBBA) warned that poor harvests in various parts of the world had dramatically increased the cost of wheat.World wheat stockpiles are at their lowest level in 25 years. Prices have surged to 10-year highs after a drought in Australia threatened to cut its harvest in ...
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European sugar arm to be sold
Tate & Lyle plans to sell off its Food & Industrial Ingredients, Europe, division following changes in the European sugar regime.The sugar company said ownership of the business was no longer an essential part of its strategy to focus on value-added ingredients.Tate & Lyle said it will continue to develop ...
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Reporting in Rebecca Geraghty, assistant director of market development, HGCA
When it comes to healthy eating most of us know we should be eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting down on fat, salt and sugar. What seems less well known is that we should also be including at least three servings of wholegrain foods every day.Evidence suggests that eating ...
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Caffè Nero unveils autumn menu
Caffè Nero, which has 292 cafés, has launched its latest seasonal menu, including focaccia with salami and two cheese, butternut squash and Brie panini.The autumn range also includes a ham, leek and cheese wrap, ham and Brie panini, soups including butternut squash and garlic, and an apple and rhubarb brunch-pot, ...
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Scottish bakers get behind World Scotch Pie Week
Scottish shops are signing up to help make the first World Scotch Pie Week a highlight in Scotland’s bakery calendar.Twenty-five companies have already pledged to raise money for the Scottish Society for Autism by either selling branded wristbands or donating a percentage of their Scotch pie sales during the week, ...
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International bakery show
The Europain 2008 exhibition is set to bring together more than 600 exhibitors including suppliers of products, equipment and services for industrial and craft bakery, patisserie, ice-cream and takeaway catering.The Intersuc show will run alongside it and will showcase international equipment and products aimed at the confectionery, chocolate and biscuit ...
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Booming Bakkavor
Icelandic firm Bakkavor claimed to be the UK market leader in speciality bread, wraps and pizza as it released results for the first nine months of 2006 last week.The company said it was now market leader in nine of the 17 categories it operates in, and 82% of its business ...
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Bako targets premium sales with launch of Finest range
Wholesaler Bako is cashing in on increased consumer demand for premium products with the launch of a Bako Finest range of foods and ingredients.The company said it was targeting the indulgent, health-aware and quality-conscious market with the range. Individual ingredients can be used to enhance a baker’s own recipes, while ...
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Farmhouse Fare joins soup brand
Puddings supplier Farmhouse Fare said "nothing will change" after it was bought last week by Daniels Chilled Foods, the company behind the New Covent Garden Food Company brand.Founder Helen Colley will remain MD of the company, which was named Bakery Supplier of the Year in British Baker’s 2005 Baking ...
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UK bread map shock
A new bread map from Tesco of consumers’ buying habits around the UK explodes some myths about regional tastes.Although white bread is more popular further north and brown bread is more widely bought in the south, Tesco store data reveals that the area with the highest demand for ’upmarket’ bread ...
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Briefs
n Bakery company Finsbury Food Group is assessing damage after an overnight fire at its United Central Bakeries site near Edinburgh. It said recovery plans were being implemented and alternative production facilities sourced where necessary.n Supplier Eurobake is to relocate to the nearby premises of craft bakery Greenhalgh’s following a ...
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Co-op research into Leeds loaf
Leeds Co-op could be going back to its roots by launching an own-label local bread.The society has started a feasibility study into working with one or two Leeds-based bakers to bake the bread, which would only be sold in its outlets in the area.One of the current members suggested a ...
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Doing things differently
Einstein defined madness as doing the same thing again and again while continuing to expect a different result.This got me thinking about my own business. When trade is poor perhaps we should think that the products we are providing are not what the public want or need. Maybe the service ...
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NA takes a look at the future
The annual National Association of Master Bakers (NA) business seminar on 29 October was attended by around 70 people.The seminar was held at the Landmark Hotel in London. The speakers were Mike Holling of Birds of Derby on seasonal opportunities and Paul Morrow MD of British Bakels on the future ...