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Cereal innovation to be encouraged
Cereals-based food lacks innovation, according to research for the Cereals Industry Forum project run by the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA).The work marks the launch of the Innovation Index - a research programme intended to measure the level of innovation in the sector on a six-monthly basis. It is funded by ...
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Commodities tracker
RM Curtis’s Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit Market Report, August to September 2006, highlights that raisin production will be significantly less this season than last year. According to Mark Setterfield, trading director at RM Curtis, any increases in Californian domestic winery demand will also stretch supply to the limit."With ...
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UK firms flock to IBA
Exhibitors including GB Plange, Bakels, Baker Perkins and Cereform unveiled details of recent corporate developments at Europe’s biggest bakery fair, IBA, last week.A total of 23 bakery companies from the UK travelled to Germany for the show, joining the 965 exhibitors from around the world.The exhibition gave international ingredients supplier ...
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Qualifications for safe food manufacturing
Food safety qualifications specifically for food and drink manufacturing have been launched by the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (RSPH).The new qualifications are based on the new Food Safety Occupational Standards, developed by skills sector council Improve.Derek Williams, development director of Improve, said: "Existing food safety qualifications were ...
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Starch prices raised 8-10%
National Starch Food Innovation has announced a price increase in Europe on its full range of products. The price of food, pharmaceutical, encapsulation, beverage and texturising starches will increase by 8-10%, effective from 15 November 2006.Dry growing conditions in Europe and subsequent limited availability have dramatically impacted the cost of ...
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International activity
Three German/Austrian bakery companies are expected to be combined to form the third-largest company in the markets, run by the well-known German baker and entrepreneur Heiner Kamps (pictured).The three German/Austrian bakers, Mueller, Anker and Lowenbrot, are expected to be bought by a specially-formed company, IFR Capital.IFR is scheduled to ...
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Bakers Oven’s winning ways
Greggs’ Bakers Oven division has announced the results of its annual in-house bakery competition.First prize overall went to Richard Haydon, relief baker for Bakers Oven Midlands, who was assessed on 10 products that he baked on a day-to-day basis. Second place went to Paul Norman, a bakery manager at the ...
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Health claims call to bakers
Manufacturers are invited to submit health claims about their products so they can be considered for inclusion in new European laws.The European list of permitted health claims aims to increase consumer protection on health claims made on food.To be eligible, claims must be based on generally accepted science and relate ...
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Bakers Ross Dea and Michael
Costello recently enjoyed a course at the House of Bread in Asten, Austria, after winning the Piero Scacco award (arranged by the Worshipful Company of Bakers).They baked products including yoghurt bread, Nordic fruit bread, pretzels and Danish pastries during the week. Here Dea (centre) and Costello (right) discuss handling ciabatta ...
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Newcastle bakery under review
RHM-owned British Bakeries is nearing the end of a two-week review of production at its Newcastle bakery, which produces Hovis and Mother’s Pride bread.The Westerhope bakery’s 250 staff have been told the company is looking at shifting production to its other bakeries in the south, to reduce supply chain costs. ...
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Home baking gets second wind as shoppers buy premium mixes
Nostalgic consumers are driving a revival in the home baking sector, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.Sales of home baking products, including flour, dried fruit, cake decorations and dough, have risen by 25% over the last five years to £429m this year, and are expected to ...
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Brown flour boost on Carrs’ birthday
Carrs Flour Mills is celebrating 175 years in the business by opening a £500,000 brown flour blending plant.MD Duncan Monroe told British Baker that increased sales of wholemeal and brown bread had prompted the investment. "It gives us better quality wholemeal and brown flours, and also enables us to add ...
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Regional focus for Breakfast Week
This year’s Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign from the Home Grown Cereals Authority features a competition to find the ’nation’s tastiest baker of regional breads’.Entry forms can be downloaded from [http://www.hgca.com/breakfast]. The closing date for entries is 10 November 2006.The week will run from 21 to 27 January 2007 with the ...
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Briefs
n Shopping centre café operator BB’s Coffee and Muffins has launched a Christmas menu including Cranberry & White Chocolate Muffins, and Christmas Crumble, which is a muffin mixed with mincemeat. There is also a Ginger Reindeer Biscuit and a Cranberry Flapjack. Christmas baguette fillings include: turkey breast, salad & cranberry; ...
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Smooth growth from bump-in-the-night
Halloween has become a short but often lucrative sales opportunity in the UK, bakers have reported.The annual festival has become well established with bakers reporting significant sales spurts that can last several weeks.Jason Jobling of WT Warren & Son, based in Penzance, Cornwall, said Halloween gave a welcome boost to ...
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Candy shop opens in Cirencester
Bakery entrepreneur and British Baker columnist Tony Phillips has branched out into confectionery with a chocolate shop in his home town of Cirencester.Chocolate and Candy was opened just over three months ago and is based on an American-style candy shop. Phillips said: "If it is successful, and we won’t know ...
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Consolidation is inevitable as costs rise, says Cooks chief
There will soon be significant consolidation in the bakery sector, the chairman of the UK’s third largest retail bakery chain has predicted.Cooks’ chairman Geoff Peppiatt said that bakers’ rising costs and falling profit margins meant that consolidation in the sector could not be avoided."It is something that needs to be ...
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Distribution watch
An example of how bakers can benefit from quality logistics services can be seen in the way that Christian Salvesen handles the UK distribution for Belgian bakery firm Vandemoortele.Christian Salvesen is one of Europe’s largest providers of logistics services, operating at over 200 sites in the UK, France, Benelux and ...
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Macphie profits up
Scottish food group Macphie of Glenbervie has reported a 14% rise in profits despite seeing significant price deflation.The company posted a pre-tax profit of £3.39m in the year to 31 March, up from £2.96m in the previous 12 months. Turnover climbed from £37.2m in 2005 to £38.7m.Describing the figures as ...
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viewpoint
The biennial conference of the Irish Association of Master Bakers, which despite its name covers both the plant and craft sectors, highlighted the warmth of Irish hospitality extended to English and Scottish guests, but also widespread concern about the image of bread.No-one at the conference could have predicted the latest ...