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- INGREDIENTS supplier Zeelandia has added a “walk-in” freezer and a blast freezer at its technical centre in Billericay, Essex, so that it can do more research and development in the UK. In the short term, the freezers allow the Netherlands-based company to research pastry glazes and frozen products.- BRITISH ...
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Maison Brillant carries off Harvey Nichols concession
Department store Harvey Nichols has signed up Maison Brillant to open a bakery concession, as it gives its food hall a “face-lift”.Maison Brillant has an outlet in Henley-on-Thames and has just opened a second in Gabriel’s Wharf, on London’s South Bank. It also has a wholesale business, based in Marlow, ...
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French theme brings early success for Warrens
PENZANCE-BASED bakery chain Warrens, with 56 shops, says it has got the year “off to a brilliant start” with a French-themed promotion.Product development manager Jason Jobling said the company is offering a nine-line French range for the month of February, including French sticks, croissants, pains au chocolat as well as ...
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Waitrose offers winning chance
Waitrose is offering British bakers the last chance to enter its fifth annual Waitrose Small Producers Awards, by its deadline of March 3. The accolades, which celebrate the best in British food, have eight categories, with each winner receiving a £5,000 prize. The Supreme Champion wins a total of ...
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Lyndale Foods rolls out its revamped store designs
Lyndale Foods is rolling out a new-format store following trials at its flagship Sayers shop in Liverpool.The company has now introduced the format into two of its Hampsons branded shops (with a new-look Hampsons fascia), and one new Sayers shop in Chester. The shops have more space given to self-serve ...
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Giles Foods set on growth trail
Giles Foods has emphasised that it will continue to expand, after selling its Milton Keynes plant to Food Investment Group (FIG) last week. Managing director David Rixon told British Baker FIG has only purchased its quiche plant at Milton Keynes along with the existing quiche business, not the whole business. ...
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Select Service Partner sale is on track
Compass Group said the sale of its travel concessions business is due to complete by mid-2006, as it held its annual general meeting last week.The company is selling is Select Service Partner division, including brands such as Millies Cookies and Upper Crust. It wants to shed the 1,400 concessions to ...
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FIG acquires savoury pastry firms
The Food Investment Group (FIG) has bought two bakery businesses that specialise in savoury pastry products.The two operations are quiche specialist Thomas Food Partnership in Sheffield, which employs over 100 staff and supplies Morrisons and Waitrose; and Milton Keynes-based family company Giles Foods, which employs 110 staff and supplies Asda, ...
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NewsFoB conference to address current industry challenges
The Federation of Bakers (FoB) has announced details of its sixth annual conference, due to be held on May 10.Speakers will include DEFRA Minister for Sustainable Farming and Food Lord Bach, Sainsbury’s trading director Mike Coupe and Gavin Neath, chairman of Unilever UK and president of the Food and Drink ...
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Decision awaited on funds of New Rathbones
Administrators behind the break-up of New Rathbones are finalising the division of creditors’ funds, after selling the business’ assets.Joint administrator Richard Hill of KPMG told British Baker he is nearing a conclusion on how to divide the funds. These include money from the sales of seven bakeries to Rathbone Kear ...
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Vote on EU quantities spells victory for bakers
The Federation of Bakers (FoB) expects to wait up to 18 months as legislation covering bread weights is finalised in Europe.Currently, the UK’s system of selling bread over 300g in set weights of 400g, 800g and 1,200g is under threat by the draft EU Nominal Quantities directive, which proposes deregulation ...
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Whole Foods plans bakery extravaganza
Organic and natural products retailer Whole Foods is to recruit and train more than 60 bakers as it prepares to launch a 120,000sq ft flagship megastore in Kensington, London.The American giant plans to open a large open-plan bakery theatre in the new store. Activity there will include scratch baking as ...
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Own-label bread starts to win the war on salt
Supermarket sliced own- label bread is lower in salt than branded loaves, British Baker research shows.New figures reveal that Sainsbury’s leads the field, with standard own-label sliced bread containing 0.8g salt per 100g. The supermarket recently reduced salt levels in its bread by 15% and doubled fibre levels by including ...
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NewsSalt reduction in bread is praised at Commons event
Salt levels in bread were put in the spotlight, with Sainsbury’s singled out for praise, at a Salt Awareness event in the House of Commons last week.The event, timed to co-incide with Salt Awareness Week 2006, was organised by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) with speakers including health ...
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The All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group is due to publish its report on the future of the high street in 2012 on February 14. Brighton-based bakery Forfars has introduced a third Forfars 2U van as it continues to “fine-tune” a delivery concept to industrial estates. MD Tim Cutress told ...
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Speakers line up for BSB conference
Tesco director of bakery Tony Reed, Brian Robinson, newly appointed chief executive of Allied Bakeries and Sir Michael Darrington, MD of Greggs will be keynote speakers at the British Society of Baking’s Spring Conference, held on March 20 and 21 at the NEC, Birmingham. Sir Michael Darrington will give an ...
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Dawn changes
Bakery company Dawn Foods has appointed Carrie Jones-Barber as its new chief executive.She is the third generation of the Jones family to head the company, following her father Ron Jones. He and Miles Jones will remain involved in the running of the organisation in new roles as chairman and co-chairman. ...
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Irish Pride rationalisation sees closure of Keatings
The Irish Pride-owned Keatings’ bakery at Kanturk, Co Cork, is to cease production in early March, with the loss of 76 full-time jobs and 20 more part-time administration jobs, writes Hugh Oram.Ten distribution jobs will be retained at the site, as production is transferred to other Irish Pride bakeries, ...
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Leicester sale to RHM ends Harvestime saga
RHM Bread Bakeries has bought Harvestime (2005)’s main Leicester bakery and plans to start production “as soon as possible”.The site, which has bread and morning goods facilities will be RHM’s 18th bakery. It will provide additional capacity to meet current demand and anticipated future growth, RHM said. As it ...
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