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Match funding boost for NPD
Innovative food and drink companies in the West Midlands are to get a helping hand developing their ideas.Funding from the West Mid-lands Food Partnership will help small and medium-sized food companies team up with research and development institutions to come up with new products.Approved applications will be eligible for 50% ...
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n The Costa Coffee chain has doubled its target of having 1,000 stores worldwide by 2010 to 2,000, quadrupling its present count. Costa plans to open 200 stores in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria within three years. Its estate already includes 157 outlets in 13 countries overseas.n International food exhibition Sial ...
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M&S trials Kitchen dining experience
Marks and Spencer is to trial an M&S Kitchen branded outlet later this month - a cross between its Café Revive format and a table service restaurant.The M&S Kitchen will be a standalone unit next to its store in Canterbury, Kent, with 60 seats indoors and 20 outdoors.It will open ...
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Distribution watch
Jiffy Trucks provide a large range of hot and cold snack delivery vehicles. Our customer base contains a selection of local bakery groups situated all across the country.The principle behind the vans is for bakers to sell their produce directly to customers at the work place - low rise office ...
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US distributor targets Mexico
The ambitious US distribution company Nascent Wine has bought a Mexican distributor of bakery supplies as part of a plan to become the largest food distributor by scooping up many of the country’s 25,000 small distributors.Nascent paid MEX$290,000 (£14,000) for JM Distribucion, which supplies bakers in Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada ...
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Dried fruit takeover
Dried fruit manufacturer Whitworths has been sold in a deal worth £86m.Private equity firm European Capital appointed Will Carter as the company’s new boss after it bought Whitworths from another private equity firm, Gresham. Carter was previously MD of the merged KP and McVitie’s businesses in the UK."Whitworths is playing ...
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Machinery sale funds NPD
Healthy snack bar manufacturer Wholebake has taken the unusual step of selling off some of its manufacturing equipment to raise funds for new product development.Wholebake, which is based in Corwen, North Wales, made £50,000 in a sale and leaseback deal with asset finance lender Davenham, which meant it could develop ...
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Vision looks North
Supplier Northern Foods has agreed a £160 million sale of its speciality bread, chilled pastry, cakes and flour milling businesses to private equity firm Vision Capital.The deal includes Fletchers Bakeries (with its La Baguette Doree business), Smiths Flour Mills, Park Cake Bakeries, and chilled pastry businesses including the Pork Farms ...
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FooGo moves into retail with plans for 40 sandwich bars
Sandwich supplier FooGo has revealed plans for a chain of 40 eat-in sandwich bars.The first of the sandwich and café bars was opened in Lincoln in October. The company will target other historic cathedral and market towns as the roll-out gets under way, it said.The new eat-in or takeaway bars ...
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Need some sound career advice? Just ask Dunkan
Dunkan the gingerbread man has been launched to help people looking for careers in food and drink manufacturing get information on jobs and training.The animated character appears on the website of the food and drink sector skills council Improve - [http://www.improveltd.co.uk] - and will answer questions about job opportunities and ...
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Amano café chain to expand with a focus on bakery
The theatre of baking is at the heart of the Amano café concept, which is to be rolled out across London and ultimately nationwide.Amano already has two outlets in London and has £2m of funding to launch a further four cafés in the capital in the next year.Operations director Ed ...
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Reporting in Kirk Hunter, chief executive, Scottish Association of Master Bakers
I feel less than sunny at the news of the launch this week in Scotland of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) ’scores on the doors’ pilots.The FSA’s plan is to give consumers information at the point of purchase about shops’ hygiene standards, based on their last food inspection report. This ...
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Bakers should buy, not rent
Small businesses should ditch the landlord and buy their freehold if they want to save money, according to property website [http://www.publicangel.com].It said that many companies could boost their long-term profitability by buying their commercial property instead of renting it.Recent changes in the commercial mortgage market mean many businesses that currently ...
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Europe’s organic bread basket?
A forum to be held in Warsaw next week will highlight Poland’s potential to be a manufacturing base for UK food firms.The British-Polish Agrifoods Forum will comprise a series of seminars for UK and Polish food producers, processors and marketers on Thursday 23 November.Issues to be discussed include food processing, ...
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Subway to spruce up bread offering
Sandwich chain Subway is planning to add new shapes and styles to its bread range "bringing some innovation to the customer".The chain, which now has 780 outlets in the UK, has a team of people working on its bread strategy, said Bryan Griffiths, MD of the European Independent Purchasing Company ...
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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 ...