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Harvestime saga continues
HARVESTIME (2005) administrators are still in negotiations over the future of its bakeries, particularly the site in Walsall, which is still trading.Joint administrator John Kelly of Begbies Traynor told British Baker he was still exploring the options, with interested parties. These are understood to include a deal with management, which ...
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Greggs ‘controlling costs’
RetaiL baker Greggs complained of rising energy costs as it reported flat like-for-like sales performance over the Christmas trading period, in a statement last week.Group MD Sir Michael Darrington said the group’s like-for-like sales in the second half, the 28 weeks to December 31, 2005, increased by 3%. Under-lying like-for-like ...
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NewsGenesis gives an Irish welcome
Northern Irish craft bakery Genesis ran a “Welcome Home” promotion over the festive period, greeting holidaymakers arriving back in Belfast City Airport with slices of its Crafty Wheaten range.Genesis marketing manager Liesa Donaldson said the company, assisted by Miss Northern Ireland Lucy Evangelista, distributed almost 24,000 slices of bread to ...
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Food from Britain (FFB) has promoted JANE WAKELING to head of client development and appointed KIRSTY GRIEVE as regional food and drinks manager. Ms Wakeling leads the organisation’s consulting and will have responsibility for providing FFB clients with strategic and practical support to ensure they gain maximum benefit from ...
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Asda awards own-label bread contract to RHM
Asda has transferred own-label business worth an estimated £10 million a year from Allied Bakeries to RHM Bread Bakeries.Allied will stop supplying private-label to Asda at the end of February, apart from two lines – its “Big Loaf” in medium- and thick-sliced. It will continue to supply a range of ...
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Bakels benefits from Multiseed Concentrate
Bakels is starting an advertising campaign in consumer magazines, highlighting the benefits of seeds in bread. The campaign, which does not feature Bakels’ branding, starts this month. It has a slogan “Great Taste, Great Waist”. The campaign includes advertisements in health-related magazines, women’s and diet magazines and point-of-sale package for ...
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Harvestime bakery: can Walsall survive?
Administrators were working against the clock to save Harvestime’s Walsall bakery as British Baker went to press. A rescue deal is being prepared with the company’s management. This will allow Harvestime to keep trading for two weeks, while a sale is finalised. Australian investor Ian Allen, who bought Harvestime (2005) ...
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Birds of Derby opens new format
CRAFT baker Birds of Derby has opened its 50th store, a trial of Birds’ Expresso unit.The takeaway outlet is in Derby’s Eagle Centre, and carries 65 lines from Birds’ standard range of around 200. Products on sale include hot and cold drinks, sausage rolls, filled rolls and baguettes, Birds’ six ...
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Which? criticises bulked-up sandwiches
Consumer group Which? has condemned some major retailers for bulking up chicken in sandwiches after analysing the contents of 26 lines.Researchers found only one sandwich, sold by Asda, in which the meat ingredient was 100% chicken. In other sandwiches, bought at stores including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose, meat ...
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Medway takes time to settle down business
A three-month review is under way at new company, Medway Foods, the business formed from a £7m management buyout (MBO) of four of Canterbury Foods’ pastry and food ingredients plants.Medway was set up after Canterbury went into administration on January 3, having failed to agree new terms for its £15m ...
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NewsInter Link claims number one own-label cake slot
Cake supplier Inter Link Foods claimed it is now the UK’s number one own-label cake company and said it has set its sights on Europe, as it posted a 51.8% hike in half year turnover to £67.2million this week.Chief executive Paul Griffiths also revealed to British Baker that the company’s ...
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NewsRetailers reveal Christmas trading performance
Bakery retailers have reported a “good” to “satisfactory” Christmas despite a “terminal decline” in sales of traditional Christmas lines such as Christmas puddings.The decline was widespread, from supermarkets to craft bakers, a British Baker straw poll of leading craft bakery and supermarket figures on the topic of Christmas trading ...
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Sainsbury’s fined £10k
Sainsbury’s has been prosecuted following an accident that left a Cheshire in-store bakery manager with serious neck and back injuries. The employee, of the company’s Curzon Road store in Sale, slipped on water, which had leaked from a dough prover onto the floor of the bakery in March 2004. Environmental ...
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Ireland considers folic acid
Fortification of bakery and other foods with Folic Acid in Ireland will not get under way until at least March or April, writes Anne Marie Foley. Following public consultation, the National Committee on Folic Acid Food Fortification is expected to complete its report in February. The Minister for Health, ...
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Doctor seeks firm to make allergy-free baked goods
Dr Chrissie Jenkins, who runs a Harley Street consultancy, Waistrim Foods, for allergy sufferers, is seeking bakers, preferably London-based, to develop a new range of breads.The doctor told British Baker that she has spent 15 years researching suitable breads and dough products that are “really good-tasting and palatable”, while at ...
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Allied goes for fuller impact with changes to Kingsmill
Allied Bakeries this week relaunched its Kingsmill Everyday bread range in new packaging and renamed three lines, in a bid to increase impact on consumers.The “simplified” packaging has clearer branding and adopts the Kingsmill ‘Fresh from the Bakery’ seal, first introduced on Kingsmill Gold in November 2005. Allied has also ...
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NewsExtra charity from bakery
Littlehampton bakery A W Biggs raised £1,091 to buy Christmas presents for 200 severely disabled children with a Christmas raffle. It donated the money to charity The Children’s Trust, which has a home in Tadworth, Surrey, providing care, therapy and education for children with multiple disabilities and complex health needs. ...
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Multi-temperature vehicles at Bako
Bako London and South East has taken delivery of its first 16 multi-temperature vehicles from Doncaster-based Gray & Adams. The vehicles, which have been designed and purpose-built for Bako London and South East, are being used to distribute around 2,500 frozen, chilled and ambient products to a customer base ...
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NewsSetback for Northern Foods in its Melton Mowbray pork pie battle
Northern Foods has had another setback in its battle to stop production of Melton Mow-bray pork pies being restricted to a 1,800 square mile zone around the Leicestershire town.The company has been battling for seven years against the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association’s (MMPPA) plans to gain “Protected Geographical ...
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NewsBread is excluded from EU’s Nominal QuantitiesBread is excluded from EU’s Nominal Quantities
A EUROPEAN Commission committee has voted to allow bread and other staples to be excluded from the EU Nominal Quantities Directive.The EU Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee voted in favour of amending the draft directive on December 12. This directive currently states there should be no set weights ...