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A WARBURTONS bakery lorry caught fire while it was parked in Bolton. An electrical fault in the driver’s cab sparked the blaze, which spread to the bread in the trailer. Nobody was hurt in the incident.Teenagers broke into the Daily Bake factory in East Grinstead, breaking machinery and stealing up ...
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NewsMini cake maker gears up for rapid growth
The end of August should see new production capacity coming on stream at miniature cake producer Greetings for Eating, as part of a £500,000 expansion funded partly by new investors.The firm is expanding output from 3m cakes a year in response to what the chairman Stephen Smith said was a ...
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Start-up crumpet maker targets premium niche
Four baking professionals previously employed by Rathbones Bakery and Harvestime have begun making ‘premium’ crumpets at a factory in Carlisle, Cumbria. Initial production by Lakeland Bake is being frozen off-site for distribution mainly to expatriates in places such as Cyprus, Spain and Malta, said one of the company’s founders, Nigel ...
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Failed Furniss to be snapped up ‘within days’
Biscuit company Furniss of Cornwall could have a new owner within days, predicted the administrator Ian Walker, who last month took charge of the business when it went into administration.Walker, of Begbies Traynor, said that Furniss “just ran out of cash”, but added: “I’m fairly confident that it is going ...
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NewsFocused future for HGCA, but detail unclear
THE planned restructuring of the five agricultural and horticultural levy boards, including the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), promises a more focused, efficient and cross-sector approach to industry issues, said Jonathan Cowens, HGCA chief executive.Yet details of the changes just announced by the government, after a review by former PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
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Hovis leads the way on RHM’s road to recovery
The RHM group trumpeted “a significantly improved trading performance” in the second half of the year to 29 April. The full year pre-tax profit fell to £7.4m from £63.7m the year before.Although group sales grew 2.1% last year to £1.6bn, growth picked up in the second half and reached 3.7%, ...
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Search for raisin innovation
You have just over a week left to enter the California Raisin Administrative Committee’s (CRAC) competition to find innovative uses of its raisins. The best innovation will win an all-expenses paid study trip for four people to California, plus an unspecified amount of support for advertising and public relations for ...
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NewsObituary
The widely known Sadie Chandley, who founded the Manchester-based oven manufacturer Tom Chandley with her husband Tom, has died aged 97.She took an active interest in the business until very recently and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1994. Sadie and Tom set up the business in April 1944 with a ...
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Romanian baker seeks UK ally
An Anglo-Romanian company plans to lead a full-scale assault on the Eastern European country’s bakery market. Bucharest-based Snack Attack will open a 50,000sq ft state-of-the-art sandwich factory there by the end of 2007, which is set to increase production from 10,000 to 100,000 sandwiches a day in the next three ...
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CPRE study backs case for small shops
A new study confirms that local shops flourish once superstore plans are turned down.The Real Choice report, by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Plunkett Foundation, found the number of local and regional food suppliers in and around Saxmundham, East Suffolk, had increased from 300 to 370 ...
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Burger bun bakers faced with redundancy
Workers at the Hemel Hempstead plant of East Balt Guenther Bakeries are facing redundancy, six months after the Buncefield blast badly damaged the premises and made it inoperable.The factory had been making burger buns for McDonald’s for over 20 years. It was formerly known as Golden West and owned by ...
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NewsGrieves challenges bakers to safeguard their future
Former bakery tutor and past chairman of the British Society of Baking Jean Grieves has called on the industry to re-evaluate its thinking on training, with a view to retaining traditional skills and bringing another generation of bakers to the fore.Speaking at the Bakers Benevolent Society ball at the Mandarin ...
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NewsStore’s best bakery named
Improved availability, product quality and good customer service have all led to a huge sales increase at Sainsbury’s in-store bakery in Lincoln.Turnover is up from £5,000 a week – when bakery manager Nick Markiewicz took over seven years ago – to £13,000, which wowed the judges at Sainsbury’s National Retail ...
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United Biscuits up for sale
Biscuit maker United Biscuits has formally put itself up for sale by sending financial packs to potential buyers.Premier Foods and RHM are both expected to have asked for the information and first-round bids are thought to be due by the end of this month. However, United Biscuits’s future will be ...
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NewsEditor tackles Blair on small shops
British Baker’s editor Sylvia Macdonald was among a small group of journalists invited to interview Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week. In light of the All Party Small Shops Group parliamentary reports, Sylvia asked the Prime Minister if the amount of red tape, restricted access for deliveries, limited parking ...
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Bakels’ Low Gi bread mix helped the firm take the titles of Oxfordshire Business of the Year and Innovation of the Year. The Bicester-based company launched a successful marketing campaign behind the product, which included leafleting 1.3 million consumers through 1,300 independent bakers. Bakels now has plans for a new ...
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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 ...