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NewsNew chief executive of the NA
Chairman of the National Association of Master Bakers, Noel Grout, is pleased to announce on behalf of the association and its board that Gill Brooks-Lonicon has been appointed chief executive of the NA from November. Current chief executive David Smith will be retiring on that date.
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Industry lobbies soften FSA salt content targets
The FOOD Standards Agency has bowed to pressure from food industry bodies including the Federation of Bakers with revised targets for salt content in foods including bread.The new voluntary targets, published on Tuesday include 1.1g salt (or 430mg sodium) per 100g on pre-packed bread and rolls by 2010. Targets will ...
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Mowbray pie dispute goes European
Northern Foods is likely to have to wait another 18 months for a verdict, as it takes its fight to prevent Melton Mowbray Pork Pies from gaining Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to the European Court of Justice. It announced last week it is continuing a long-running battle against moves ...
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National Doughnut Week draws near
British Baker is proud to support National Doughnut Week 2006 on May 6-13. All high street craft bakers can register – to do their bit for charity and reap the significant business benefits of getting involved. National Doughnut Week, sponsored by BakeMark UK, raises money for The Children’s Trust, ...
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NewsTesco vows to ride the health wave
Tesco’s bakery sales are now worth £1bn a year and are growing 14% annually, bakery director Tony Reed has revealed.Speaking at the British Society of Baking’s spring conference in Birmingham this week, Mr Reed said bakery turnover has almost doubled from £600m since he took over almost five years ago. ...
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Kingsmill promotion
Kingsmill has started a promotion for its packs of white and wholemeal rolls, called Roll on Summer, designed to capitalise on this summer’s World Cup. Consumers can collect tokens to be exchanged for supporter packs containing face paints, flags, thunder-sticks, banners, whistles and megaphones. The promotion will feature on 11m ...
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Wellbeing tops the agenda at BCCCA event
Wellbeing is the theme of the Biscuit Cake Chocolate and Confectionery Association’s (BCCCA’s) annual Technology Conference, which is being held in Daventry on March 30-31, 2006.This conference will tackle health issues facing food manufacturers and will feature an exhibition of product development initiatives, new technologies and ingredients. Rosemary Hignett, head ...
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NewsLASER AGM
Some 25 LASER members attended its Annual General Meeting on March 6, in Bakers Hall, London. Chris Beaney, a third-generation Master Baker who runs a business in Strood in Kent, started his year’s office as LASER president at the meeting. He aims to encourage membership of the National Association of ...
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FSA scheme gives bread green light on all but salt
Almost all plant bread would get an amber light because of salt content, if latest Food Standards Agency (FSA) “red, amber and green” labelling criteria were applied on loaves.Almost all branded and own-label loaves of bread fall outside the threshold for low salt food – a maximum of 0.3g per ...
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NewsWarburtons extends reach with ‘super bakery’ launch
Warburtons said it is 80% of the way towards national coverage as it launched it £60m "super" bakery in Tuscany Park, Wakefield, this week and revealed it is to install a second bread plant at its Enfield bakery.The new Tuscany Park bakery replaces a landlocked site in the town centre, ...
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Bakery industry welcomes grocery market review
Craft bakers are celebra-ting after the announcement last week that the Competition Commission is to start a review of the grocery market. National Association of Master Bakers (NA) chief executive David Smith said he is on “cloud nine” following the announcement by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). “It’s the ...
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In Brief
- British Bakeries plans to create 200 jobs at the former Harvestime (2005) site in Leicester, which it bought out of administration last month. The site is operating at 25% capacity and one plant is fully operational, producing Hovis bread. The baker has already recruited 45 people and plans to ...
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In Brief
- Ingredients company Macphie has launched a new website – www.macphie.com – showcasing ingredients for bakers, foodservice operators and food manufacturers. To celebrate the launch, it is running an on-line competition to win one of five iPod nanos. Readers can log-on and register their details before April 30 for ...
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IAWS profits from growth in food business
Agri-Food group IAWS has reported a 22.6% increase in pre-tax profits for the six months to the end of January. Group pre-tax profits rose to €49.4 million (£33.9m) on sales up by 13.4% to €715m (£492m).The Delice de France and Cuisine de France owner said growth at its food business ...
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Harvestime finds buyer but wrangle continues
A sale of Harvestime (2005)’s Walsall bakery was being delayed by a wrangle over the lease, as British Baker went to press. A buyer is waiting to take over the site, which is in administration. But the deal, which would secure 320 jobs, is being held up by the site’s ...
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Northern feels the chill
Northern Foods revealed its bakery and pastry divisions had been seriously hit in the early weeks of 2006, as it announced it is starting a strategic review of its business this week.The supplier’s biscuit sales in January and February were 12% lower than the previous year and the market continues ...
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NewsRising energy costs and competition hit Greggs
Retail baker Greggs reported it had been hit by a 60% year-on-year increase in energy costs, as it posted its premiminary results for 2005 last week.The baker came to the end of of a three-year electrity contract last October and, since then has seen “significantly higher increases than most people ...
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NewsLetter
The decision by the Office of Fair Trading to refer the supermarket industry to the Competition Commission is a victory for the Independent Retailers Confederation (IRC) and the All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group of MPs . We believe the report, called High Street Britain 2015 and published last month, was ...
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Obituary
ROBERT Rich, founder and chairman of Rich Products Corporation, has died, aged 92. Robert Rich invented the world’s first non-dairy whipped topping, Rich’s Whip Topping, in 1945. Based on soybean, the topping was developed because of the shortage of milk during the war years. Nevin Montgomery, president and CEO ...
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Rich products trims lines after David Powell buy
Bakery supplier Rich Pro-ducts is rationalising its range in the UK, following its acquisition of craft business David Powell Bakeries in June 2005.The fresh bread to frozen muffins supplier has so far stopped producing around 10% of products, including slow sellers, such as Eccles cakes, UK MD George Thomopoulos told ...