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Tryton Foods to cut workforce
Tryton Foods, best-known for Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings, is cutting 30 jobs in Hull.The jobs will go as production of some goods is transferred from a subsidiary unit to the main Tryton plant in the city.A spokesman commented that the company was continuing to grow, but needed to make ...
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Your Letters
The National Federation of Bakery Student Societies/IBB Alliance is an organisation that has served the student body of the Baking Industry for the last 81 years. Lately, in light of the changing dynamic of education and the industry, the organisation has conducted a strategic review. As a result ...
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Message for Macadamia nutters
The Australian Macadamia Society is offering artisan food manufacturers £1,000 for the UK’s Best New Recipe using Macadamia Nuts.The competition has six recipe categories including Cake, Biscuit, Pastry or Dessert; Snack or Confectionery; Cereal, Bread or Cracker.Competition entries will be judged on quality and best use of ingredients, and the ...
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Packaging Watch
"There’s no doubt about it. People’s views of packaging are changing," says Mark Barthel (left), special advisor on retail innovation for the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which aims to reduce packaging and food waste, and encourage recycling."As retailers, bakers and their customers become increasingly aware of their environmental ...
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Bakesense buys Oakdale sites from administration
Bakery supplier and marketing company Bakesense has bought Oakdale Bakeries’ sites in Doncaster and Wigan from administration. The deal completed on 9 March, saving 247 jobs.Glenn Bancroft, co-owner, said Bakesense had received requests from supermarket customers to develop an own-label pies and tart business, and the acquisition would allow it ...
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Asian spice scoops Sandwich World Cup title
The Délifrance Sandwich World Cup, held in Paris on 7 March, was won by Singapore’s Philip Koh with his Asian Spiced Chicken Sandwich. He beat six finalists from around the world, including Britain’s Adrian Brown who won the British heat in October 2006.The seven finalists used Delifrance breads as carriers. ...
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Greggs begins trials
Bakery retailer Greggs said this week that there was "growing excitement" in its 1,336-shop business as it experimented with innovative formats and ranges.MD Sir Michael Darrington told British Baker that Greggs was in a "learning phase" as it trialled ideas such as extended opening hours, range changes and new branding.The ...
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Briefs
n A night-shift worker has died after an incident at a Warburtons’ bakery in Bellshill, Lanarkshire. Police found Stephen McArdle lying outside the unit at 4.40am last week. The 26-year-old victim, of Coatbridge, was rushed to Monklands General Hospital in Airdrie. A spokeswoman for Warburtons said: "We are deeply saddened ...
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FSA to consider folate findings
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week completed a consultation on options for increasing young women’s intake of folate.During the 13-week consultation, four options were considered, including encouraging the food industry to fortify more foods with folic acid on a voluntary basis and recommending the mandatory fortification of bread or ...
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Agreement on bakery show
Bakery Exhibitors Ltd (BEL) the board of Food & Bake exhibition, has decided to align itself with William Reed’s Baking Industry Exhibition. The result will be the first-ever joint event for the baking industry, which will take place at the NEC from 6-9 April, 2008.David Marsh, chairman of BEL said: ...
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Ambitious target set for National Doughnut Week
The Children’s Trust said last week that it hoped craft bakers could raise more than £50,000 through National Doughnut Week, making it the most successful to date.The charity aims to raise over £5 million in the coming year, through events such as National Doughnut Week, sponsored by BakeMark. The money ...
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Tate & Lyle offloads Redpath
Tate & Lyle, the cereal sweete-ners and starches company, has announced the sale of its Canadian sugar refining business, Redpath, to American Sugar Refining, for a net consideration of £132 million.Redpath operates a cane sugar refinery in Toronto and a packing operation in Niagara Falls in Canada. The sale ...
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Traditional Polish Bakery hits Irish expansion trail
The Traditional Polish Bakery, set up in Dublin 12 months ago, is now expanding its nationwide distribution of traditional Polish bread lines.It is targeting an estimated 120,000 Polish people living in Ireland, with 100,000 of them in the greater Dublin area as well as Irish consumers.The man behind the bakery, ...
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Takeaway: hot beverages
February’s round-up of new products, from Productscan, throws up some novel ideas in the international coffee and beverages market. Productscan is an international on-line market intelligence service, published by New York-based Datamonitor.The round-up highlights Starbucks’ new venture into providing hot vending coffee, manufactured by PepsiCo. The coffee comes ...
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Briefs
n Biscuit company Burton’s Foods says its has removed hydrogenated fats from its entire portfolio of over 100 products, including Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels, baked from the end of January 2007.n A new website has been launched to link shoppers and retailers with local sources of organic food. OrganicAssistant.com ...
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Inter Link loss but brighter outlook
Cake company Inter Link Foods has announced it will not now meet market forecasts for the financial year ending 5 May, 2007.The supplier said it will make a loss after exceptional costs, but before goodwill amortisation.However, with internal restructuring complete and the new central distribution arrangements operating effectively, Inter ...
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Carr’s sees hit to profits
Food and agriculture group Carr’s said last week that resistance in the UK market to a flour price increase will hit group profits this half year.The company said that, since January 2007, the UK market has resisted a flour price increase based on a massive increase in wheat prices, combined ...
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Fletchers not set for closure
In the 16 February issue of British Baker we carried a report that Vision Capital planned to close the Fletchers Bakery at Sheffield.This was incorrect and no such closure is planned. We apologise to Vision Capital and Fletchers Bakeries for this error and regret the distress and confusion that ...
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Greencore growth
Irish food and sugar producer Greencore expects its convenience foods division will drive further growth in 2007, despite recent raw material cost increases and an electrical fire at its largest sandwich facility, Manton Wood.The fire happened in December 2006, when a switchboard failed and blew out all the power, ...