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Improve calls on industry to draft diploma
Food and drink manufacturers are being urged to help draft a new industry diploma, as well as share their experiences of training older workers.Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, wants input from employers on a new vocational qualification for 14- to 19-year-olds that will be an alternative to ...
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Family firm to close doors as Inter Link consolidates
Inter LINK Foods is to close the recently-acquired Hoppers Farmhouse Bakery in a bid to consolidate operations. The 16,000sq ft factory in Herne Bay, Kent, will shut its doors early next year, with the loss of 130 jobs, when production will transfer to Inter Link’s highly automated 70,000sq ft Blackburn ...
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Honeytop gains naan licence
Honeytop Speciality Foods is celebrating big sales increases resulting from its new ‘champagne’ naan breads.The speciality flatbread manufacturer came up with what it believes are the most authentic naans on the market, after upgrading production methods. The breads have a soft open texture and irregular bubbling as well as the ...
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Letter
The situation in the UK’s bakery colleges is a cause for concern to the whole of the industry.If the present trends continue, then the majority of employees in the craft baking industry will have no access to a bakery college. It is precisely because of this situation, which has been ...
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Sayers workers in protest march
FamilieS of workers threa-tened with redundancy at Liver-pool bakery Sayers marched through the streets in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs.Protesters called on owner, Lyndale Foods, to invest in the site to help improve efficiency rather than shed more than 180 jobs and transfer much of the production to ...
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Maple Leaf invests £12m in New York Bagel line
Maple LEAF BAKERY has unveiled a new £12m bagel line for the New York Bagel Company at its Rotherham site.The automated line has been installed in a new building and, according to deputy managing director Guy Hall, is believed to be the largest in the world producing bagels by the ...
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NewsFunding for adult training courses heading for crisis
BAKERY colleges nationwide are struggling to obtain funding and senior tutors are being put under threat of redundancy and early retirement. Jane Hatton, co-ordinator for bakery and sugar courses at Brooklands, who is widely known throughout the industry and acts as a national examiner for external students, has been given ...
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Good weather alone will not dictate wheat prices
The current good weather in wheat growing areas of the UK does not necessarily bode well for this year’s harvest, warns Ian Pinner, managing director of ADM Milling.He told British Baker: “There is much speculation about the crops at the moment but the perception that this year’s crop looks ...
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NewsUnion strikes back at attacks on pensions
Last week’s annual Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) conference gave its full backing to the union’s efforts to counter the erosion of final pension schemes that is prevalent across many industry sectors. It also opposed government moves to raise the retirement age.Bakers are being treated no differently to ...
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NewsBiofuel demand hits rapeseed oil prices
Bakeries are counting the cost of rising rapeseed oil prices as the oil is increasingly used as a biodiesel fuel. Prices have risen 25% over the last 12 months from, typically, £400 per tonne to £500 per tonne. And the increases are set to continue. Rapeseed oil is used, primarily, ...
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Production boost from icing sugar switch
TALGARTH BAKERY has switched from block fondant to British Sugar’s Celebration Icing Sugar for fondant icing. The change, says Talgarth general manager Mike Morgan, has increased production and process efficiency at the Glamorgan plant, which doubled in size in December. Block fondant took 20-25 minutes to prepare, but Celebration ...
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In Brief
A noise study carried out on the shop floor of Brace’s two bakeries confirmed that workers should wear ear defenders, which have been distributed to all operatives. Visitors will be given disposable earplugs when entering the shop floor areas.Tortilla manufacturer Discovery Foods has achieved Investors in People status. Formed in ...
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Middle East to tuck into British favourite
Bollin Dale Engineering is supplying a complete line for production of Jaffa Cake style biscuits to a customer in Iran.The 1.2-metre wide line, valued at £1.3m, is on its way to the factory and will be installed and commissioned by Macclesfield-based Bollin Dale. It will have an output of 750kg ...
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NewsWorld Cup window display wins over fans
CHESHIRE-BASED craft chain Arthur Chatwin is capitalising on the football World Cup tournament with dedicated window displays and sales of specially decorated bakery products across its stores.“We’re supplying fondant fancies, fairy buns and small frangipanes with England’s white and red cross on top, and gingerbread men sporting an England football ...
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UK eggs rule the roost in Europe, says survey
Egg production in the UK has been confirmed as among the safest in the world, according to an EU survey. The survey tested the environment (not the hens or eggs) of egg-laying flock holdings between October 2004 and September 2005. Nearly 90% of UK holdings were found to be completely ...
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US wheat industry sees lower plantings
The wheat industry in the US is said to be in crisis as many farmers are no longer planting the crop because it is unprofitable, according to Reuters European Business Wire.Both domestic use and exports of US wheat have been suffering from technology that has increased the shelf life of ...
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Sainsbury’s unveils top 10 list of plant bread loaves
Sainsbury’s has revealed that its top-selling loaf is Kingsmill Square White Medium 800g, followed by Hovis Square Cut White 800g.A top 10 list supplied by the supermarket also shows a wholemeal loaf in the line-up, as well as two breads “with bits” – Hovis Best of Both and Kingsmill Wholegrain ...
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McDonald’s backs toasties
Fast FOOD chain McDonald’s said it has no intention of ditching its recently-introduced Toasted Deli Sandwiches, despite disappointing sales and a planned replacement of some of the range this summer.“There are no plans to cut back or drop the range,” said McDonald’s, after its UK chief operating officer declared himself ...
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Tesco’s Omega basket roll-out nears completion
Supermarket Tesco has revealed it will have completed a roll-out of standard-sized bread baskets to all its plant bread fixtures by the end of its financial year.The new “one-size-fits-all” 10-loaf “Omega” baskets are now being used to display bread in 400 of its supermarkets, in the Midlands and the south. ...
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NewsGreencore follows cost-cutting path and boosts profitability
Irish group Greencore is now down to 4,300 suppliers from 6,000 18 months ago, with the likelihood of a further reduction under its Total Lowest Cost cost-cutting programme.The group said the programme was contributing to a 2% per year cut in operating costs in its convenience foods division, whose bakery ...