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Premium additions
Bakery company Finsbury Food Group says it is finalising new premium cakes ranges for Morrisons, the Co-operative Group and Asda, following premium relaunches with Somerfield, Sainsbury’s and Tesco last year.The company, which announced a half-year sales growth of 5% in its Memory Lane Cakes business compared to the same 2005 ...
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Police investigate arson attack on Brace’s vehicles
Welsh plant baker Brace’s says police are baffled after three of its £50,000 lorries were set on fire on December 27.The lorries were among 10 vehicles parked in its isolated depot in Capel Hendre when the attack occurred at 11.30pm. They were set alight separately, with the arsonists smashing ...
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Arthur Rayner, head of skills training, SAMB
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers’ (SAMB) training department feels very encouraged and positive about the future of bakery training in Scotland, especially for 2007. Although the current round of European Social Fund (ESF) programmes is almost at an end and the future of this funding is very uncertain, Scottish ...
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Tesco fined as Ashby bakery worker suffers burns to feet
Tesco has been fined a total of £24,000 after a bakery worker was badly burned when hot oil from a doughnut machine dripped onto her feet.The company admitted breaching health and safety regulations at its Ashby store, during a hearing before Hinckley magistrates.The court heard that ...
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Quick sale sought for Ferrari’s bakery
Administrators say they are hopeful of a quick sale after Welsh bakery Ferrari’s went into administration on December 18.Administrator Begbies Traynor said it had received an "encouraging number of approaches from interested parties in the baking industry", after advertising the businesses for sale as going concerns. Cleary Foods, Ferrari’s ...
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Briefs
n Northern Foods’ shareholders voted in favour of the disposal of the firm’s speciality bread, chilled pastry, cakes and flour milling businesses to Vision Capital at an Extraordinary General Meeting this week.n A poll on our bakeryinfo.co.uk website has revealed that 55% of bakers believe the biggest challenge to their ...
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Discovery refutes Mission buy
Tortilla supplier Discovery Foods has denied industry rumours that it is about to be sold to Mission Foods, which claims to be the world’s largest tortilla company.Discovery, an independent family business, is looking at various strategic options for securing external investment, admitted MD James Beaton. But reports of an impending ...
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Cooks wins school favour with new healthy canteen
UK bakery chain Cooks The Bakery is following in the footsteps of Jamie Oliver and has opened up a ’healthy’ canteen in a comprehensive school.The school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, has reported that the new school meals have been so successful that servings have increased from 50 to 900 per ...
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Carrs predicts a tough year
Carrs Milling Industries said in an AGM statement this week that a massive increase in wheat prices, combined with high energy costs, will make it a tough year for its food division.Company chairman, Lord Richard Inglewood said: "There remains an inevitable lag in successfully passing on cost increases to customers. ...
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Irwin’s strikes Guinness deal
"Irwin’s bakery of Ireland, in partnership with the beer brand Guinness, has created a new Guiness bread, following two years of pro-duct research and development.Made by Irwin’s at its Portadown bakery, the new wholegrain bread contains 17% Guinness. Michael Murphy, Irwin’s business development controller said that the product had already ...
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Inter Link eyes organic growth
Inter Link said it was set for solid growth in 2007, after admitting it had "bitten off more than it could chew" in 2006.Speaking as it released its interim results for the six months ended November 4, chief executive Chris Thompson told British Baker that the company had made "important ...
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Ingredients watch
The perception that raisins are thought to be a "sticky" sweet fruit, detrimental to oral health, has been rebutted by research conducted by the Illinois College of Dentistry.The research, entitled Phytochemicals in raisins inhibit growth and adherence of plaque bacteria, demonstrates that raisins contain phenolic compounds and other antioxidants that ...
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Kart Grand Prix raises £2,500
The Cookie Crew swept to victory at this year’s Bakers’ Benevolent Society Kart Grand Prix, which raised £2,500 for the charity.Sponsored for the first time by Rank Hovis, the event at Daytona International Raceway saw 15 baking industry teams compete in a three-hour endurance race.The Cookie Crew narrowly beat ADM ...
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Folic acid wins favour
The baking industry is braced for a debate about who picks up the bill, after experts recommended flour be fortified with folic acid this week.The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s (SACN’s) recommended on Tuesday that mandatory fortification of flour could cut the risk of birth defects such as spina bifida.On ...
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International activity
Eastern Europeans are developing a taste for upmarket coffee judging by the results of British-owned coffee chain Coffeeheaven.The AIM-listed coffee bar group, which has 59 sites in central Europe, reported half-year pre-tax profits of £140,000 for the six months to 30 September 2006. This compares with a loss of £366,000 ...
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Warburtons ads to go national
Warburtons is to launch its first ever national TV advertising campaign as part of a £20m marketing investment in 2007.The ad campaign will build the brand in areas where it is already established, as well as attracting more consumers in areas that are new to Warburtons, it said.The new advertising ...
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Flour prices rise again as wheat costs spiral upwards
ADM Milling is to put up its prices on all flours by £21.25 a tonne from January 15.The rise in price is in response to higher wheat costs, ADM Milling’s MD Ian Pinner told British Baker.He commented: "Since August 2006 UK bread wheat prices have gone up by a ...
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Court appearance in stabbing case
Fine Lady Bakeries employee Shahid Rehman has appeared at Oxford Crown Court charged with the murder of colleague Imran Shah.The 29-year-old Urdu speaker will reappear in the New Year to deliver his plea.The two men lived near each other in Banbury and worked the nightshift together at Fine Lady Bakeries.Mr ...
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Ford bids to take Caffè Nero private
Caffè Nero’s chairman and CEO Gerry Ford has made a £225m bid to buy-out the coffee shop chain, which is yet to be agreed by shareholders.Taking the company private will give "management greater flexibility to pursue its expansion strategy to add to its current network of 290 shops", said Ford. ...