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NewsJacobs’ workers agree to revised conditions
Some 300 workers at the Jacobs Biscuits plant in Dublin have voted in favour of a survival plan that will mean significant changes in work practices after an ultimatum from management, writes Hugh Oram.The three unions at the plant – Siptu, the ATGWU and the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers ...
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Bakery firms first to join Improve scheme
Bakery companies have become the first employers to sign up to a new Young Apprenticeship Scheme, set up by food and drink skills council Improve.Nantwich-based New Prime-bake, Nottingham-based Smiths Flour Mills, and three craft bakeries in Suffolk will launch the scheme in September. The Suffolk bakeries involved are Crown Bakery, ...
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Spar gives boost to Kindness sales
Scottish wholesale and retail bakery Kindness Bakers says sales are up since it rebranded its two shops under the Spar fascia. The family bakery’s shops in New Deer and Maud Aberdeenshire, previously traded under the Mace fascia for 15 years, but have just officially launches as Spar. Sales have increased ...
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NewsThe Bread Factory comes under one roof
Wholesale bakery The Bread Factory has opened its new 18,000sq ft bakery, after a year of planning and six months of building. The company, which won British Baker’s Speciality Bread Award in 2005 (sponsored by Tesco), has moved its three bakeries from Stanmore and Park Royal in London to one ...
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Cake Break Day to raise multiple sclerosis funding
On April 28, thousands of people around the country will host an MS Cake Break party to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.The society wants bakers and ingredients companies to get involved by promoting the event to customers, encouraging them to buy cakes to host coffee mornings or afternoon ...
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In Brief
- Jenny Hudson, a former pastry chef with Claridges, will be making a cake for the first wedding anniversary of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. It will be a chocolate cake decorated with berries and chocolate swirls. Ms Hudson runs her Warwickshire based company, Sweet As, ...
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Tesco’s Tony Reed speaks up at BSB
Tesco bakery director Tony Reed will speak about Tesco bakery and new opportunities at the British Society of Baking’s (BSB) Spring Conference later this month.This will be his last public function in his role as bakery director, after his recent promotion (British Baker, March 3, pg 4). He will be ...
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Welsh firm regains contract
Welsh wholesale bakery Popty Cae Groes, based in Bethesda, Snowdonia, has regained the contract to supply supermarket Morrisons with its speciality bara brith and Welsh cakes. These had previously been delisted after Morrisons bought Safeway.The bakery’s cause was helped by customer pressure in north and mid-Wales after aficionados of bara ...
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NewsLightbody Czechs out into overseas market
Scottish cake company Lightbody of Hamilton is to build a £2m factory in the Czech Republic and launch joint ventures in Asia and America, in a global expansion.Managing director Martin Lightbody told British Baker Lightbody has supplied overseas markets including France, Italy and Spain over the last couple of years ...
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Deal for diabetic
A bakery assistant has reached a settlement with a bakery in Gloucestershire after she was dismissed because she was a diabetic.The Disability Rights Commision (DRC) took up the case of Elizabeth Morrison, 51, dismissed from the Emma’s Country Cakes plant in Coleford. Management at the firm told Morrison that there ...
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Ethnic food firms told to export
Manufacturers of ethnic foods should consider selling in mainland Europe, due to saturation in some market sectors in the UK, says market development consultancy Food from Britain (FFB). It claims the market in Spain is growing by 30% a year, for example, and Belgium is also strong.Buoyant sectors in ethnic ...
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New start for Harry’s Russian plant
Russian pre-packed bakery specialist Harry’s has reopened a production plant in Russia which burned down in 2004.Based at Solnechnogorsk, near Moscow, the bakery has been restored at a cost in excess of €30 million. The plant has seven lines producing Swiss rolls, cakes, wafers and brioche.Harry’s has a second plant ...
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Mathiesons moves home
After basing itself for more than seven decades in Falkirk town centre, Mathiesons, with 25 retail outlets and nine restaurants and cafés, has completed a move to an extensive new bakery at nearby Central Business Park, writes Ian Martin. At the same time, the company has changed its official title ...
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ABF issues warning on Allied’s volumes
Associated British Foods has warned that Allied Bakeries has achieved lower volumes than expected, as it prepares to release its interim results.Volumes across Allied’s range of products were affected over the last six months, said a spokesman. Full details of the results will be announced on April 19, when ABF ...
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NewsACS calls for help in fight for independents
The Association of Conven-ience Stores (ACS) is urging retail bakers and other independent retailers to join a high street “fight for survival”.The ACS, which has a membership of 32,500 convenience retailers, wants support in its long-running legal campaign for the Competition Commission to revise competition rules on the grocery market. ...
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NewsAllied Mills gets back to business in British market
Allied Mills is returning to the commercial market in Great Britain after a three-year gap, which followed the sale of six of its nine milling sites to ADM Milling.Allied divested the milling sites in February 2003. Since then, it has concentrated on milling for parent firm Associated British Foods’ (ABF) ...
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NewsMr Kipling stems decline in tough ambient market
Manor Bakeries has stemmed the decline in sales of its Mr Kipling brand, but sales of its other main cake brands continue to fall, latest TNS data suggests.The data highlights the increasing strength of supermarket own-label alternatives, with all the supermarkets growing market share on own-label cakes over the year. ...
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Image change for Anglo
Bakery brokerage Anglo Brokers is to be relaunched as BakeSense on April 2, to reflect its focus on the bakery market.The company was taken over by business partners Glenn Bancroft and Philip Scholes in 2004. Mr Bancroft, formerly of Asda, told British Baker: “Anglo Foods was originally a confectionery broke-rage, ...
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NewsTesco’s Tony Reed climbs from bakery
Tesco’s high-profile bakery director Tony Reed has been promoted to operations director for 240 northern superstores, with a successor yet to be named.Mr Reed, who has been bakery director since August 2001, starts his new job on March 13. He will cover stores between 20,000sq ft and 60,000 sq ft ...
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Bakery scholarship launched
Rank Hovis has launched a scholarship, open to all students working towards a baking qualification or taking bakery as part of a full-time course.The successful applicants will be given an all-expenses-paid personalised course to suit their interests, ambition and aspirations in the baking industry. The course will run over one ...