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- Artist Sharon Baker, 45, made a life-size model of her own body entirely out of bread for an exhibition in London’s Docklands last weekend. The 5ft 3in model weighed 36 kilos before it was baked at Brooklands College, Weybridge.- Edwards Bakery in Wigan sold blue and white pies ahead ...
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DESSERTS company Vittles Desserts is planning to expand its bakery in Leicester from 10,000sq ft to 14,000sq ft in the next 18 months. The £2.5m turnover company needs more space, primarily due to increased demand on the cheesecake side of its business, MD Martin Zalesny told British Baker. Vittles Desserts ...
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Evron extends reach with Pontypool plant
Northern Irish bakery supplier Evron Foods is to open a manufacturing plant in Pontypool, South Wales next month to extend its reach in the UK.Evron, which supplies Subway stores in the UK, Ireland and Scandanavia built the factory “largely to bring us closer to the UK market”, said marketing director ...
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NewsMantinga on track for profit
Bake-off supplier Mantinga is on track to report a turnover of £1.8 million to £1.9m for the year to August 2006, as it continues to expand.The company, which bakes its range in a craft bakery in Lithuania, is set to break into profit by Easter, sales director Chris Riley told ...
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Bread prices up as much as 13% as energy costs rise
Supermarket bread prices have risen by as much as 10p for an 800g loaf over the last month, as bakery suppliers head off increased energy costs.The price rises affect bran-ded, own-label and in-store bakery products in all four of the major multiples. RHM bread bakeries has phased in price rises ...
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New Rathbones’ administrators in power struggle
A BIZARRE power struggle is taking place between the administrators of Harvestime (2005) and the administrators of New Rathbones.KPMG, backed by Harves-time (2005)’s creditors Whit-worth Holdings and Whitworth Brothers, is challenging Har-vestime (2005)’s administrators to take over the administration process of New Rathbones. Eleven creditors, who turned up to a ...
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Degree course for Irish National Bakery School
The Irish National Bakery School is finalising details of a new degree course for the next academic year, writes Ann Marie Foley. It is also advertising short bakery courses for chefs in Ireland’s top catering magazine. This follows the popularity of last year’s short courses among people from small catering ...
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Brace’s changes bread’s identity
Welsh bakery Brace’s is to drop its ‘Brace’s...Bread for all Seasons’ slogan and launch the tag line ‘Where Premium Quality is the Standard’, as part of a tranche of marketing activity.Marketing director Scott Richardson said the Brace’s brand needs to “move with the market”. He commented: “Premium quality is always ...
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NewsBread Roll Company rolls out specialities
The Bread Roll Company has launched its first new product after winning £20,000 of Home Grown Cereals Authority Enterprise (HGCA) funding last year.The grant is helping fund a £52,000 project to develop a new range of speciality ‘healthy” breads. The St Albans-based independent craft baker is set to increase grain ...
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RHM focuses on seeded breads rather than GI
RHM bread bakeries is evalua-ting the Glycaemic Index diet system and any weight management benefits it offers, but has so far decided against promoting it.Speaking as Hovis prepared for a £1.1m relaunch of its Granary range this week, marketing manager for Hovis Granary Stephen Davis told British Baker RHM Bread ...
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- British Baker is taking a stand at the Food & Bake exhibitiona at Birmingham’s NEC on March 19 to 22. Come and see us on stall P70 in hall 7.- Milling, agriculture and engineering group Carr’s said challenging UK agricultural market conditions may temper the strong performance it ...
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Strong line-up for BSB event
BAKERY industry giants are lined up to address the British Society of Baking’s (BSB) two–day “Golden Jubilee” Spring Conference, taking place, mornings only, at the Food & Bake 2006 exhibition in Birmingham. Sir Michael Darrington, MD of Greggs, Tony Reed, bakery director of Tesco, and Brian Robinson, chief executive of ...
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Greggs worker guilty in cancer hoax
A GREGGS bakery worker has been given a nine-month suspended prison sentence after conning colleagues and her employers out of £2,400 by pretending to have terminal cancer.Judge Alistair McCallum ordered Mrs Karen Marriott, now 33, to repay the money at the rate of £30 per week at Leeds Crown Court ...
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Finedon Mill directors face charges over HGCA levies
Finedon Mill directors John Lister and Charles Garavan are being prosecuted in relation to breaches of the 1965 Cereals Marketing Act. The case comes after Finedon Mill called in administrators on July 12, 2005, after its remaining asset, a mill at Finedon was sold to Rank Hovis on June 28, ...
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Pret A Manger questions suppliers over food miles
Sandwich chain Pret A Manger says it is looking at the environmental impact of food miles on its products. “We’re completely reassessing all our suppliers at the moment,” creative chef Nick Sandler told British Baker. ”We’re scrutinising our suppliers more along environmental lines, even down to where the flour in ...
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Ginsters looks to ‘healthier’ options
Ginsters is adding a new deep-fill “less than 350 calories” Chicken Tikka sandwich to its healthier-eating sandwich range.The sandwich is the first in a range of extensions planned for 2006, marketing controller Larry File told British Baker. Ginsters will introduce new savoury slices, including Ham and Cheese and Spicy Chicken, ...
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Positive profit for Irish group
The Irish Jacob Fruitfield Group has reported profit of E4.4 million and sales of E42m in its first five months, writes Ann Marie Foley.That is according to results just released, for the months since the acquisition of W&R Jacob’s (Irish Biscuits) business from Danone, in August 2004, to December 2004. ...
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Economy forces ADM mill closure
ADM Milling blamed “unfavourable economic conditions” as it announced it is to close its Newcastle flour mill in May.Marketing manager John Hastwell said the mill is a bulk-only site, with no packing operations and is operating under capacity.Production will be shifted to ADM’s other mills, particularly those in Edinburgh, Scotland, ...
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BSA to award single outlet
The search is on to find Britain’s top bakery sandwich shop for the British Sandwich Industry Awards 2006, organised by The British Sandwich Association (BSA).Focused this year on individual shops rather than businesses, the Tri-Star Bakery Sandwich Shop of the Year Award will be judged on factors such as presentation, ...
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NewsSmall shops report predicts craft bakers will be resilient
Bakers will survive through to 2015, but other independents, such as convenience stores, grocers and petrol forecourts, are likely to be wiped out by then. That is unless key recommendations from the All Party Small Shops Group are taken on board, predicts a new Parliamentary report.The report from the All ...