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Top five stories in past seven days
A week is a long time in bakery – or so it seems. But you can catch up here with our round-up of the biggest stories of the past seven days.
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Product NewsCyBake trialled by M&S
Bakery management software CyBake is being trialled by clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) across a selection of its in-store bakeries.
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Product NewsPetrow opens Suffolk facility
Dried fruit and nuts supplier Petrow Food Group has opened an 80,000sq ft factory and warehouse at Haverhill, Suffolk.
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NewsLPQ bemoans rents rise
Le Pain Quotidien has become the second major bakery chain to say that the cost of rents is a major downside of running a business in central London.
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Product NewsUnited Biscuits suffers profit tumble
United Biscuits (UB) has seen pre-tax operating profits fall 47.5% to £54.7 million in the year to 3 January 2015, according to newly filed Companies House accounts.
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NewsSpeciality Breads to open new £3m bakery
Speciality Breads, the Margate-based wholesale bakery, is to open a new £3m bakery as it revealed it is seeing 30% year-on-year growth and is nearing a £6m turnover.
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Product NewsWrights backs bid for World’s Strongest Man
It’s not every day a Wrights Food delivery van is used as a weight, but that’s precisely what happened when the UK’s Strongest Man deadlifted a 2.5 tonne vehicle.
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NewsKerry Group launches innovation centre
Kerry Group, the global ingredients company, has opened a new €1bn technology and innovation centre in Dublin.
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NewsLewis Pies agrees deal with NISA
Lewis Pie & Pasty Company, based in Swansea, Wales, has secured a distribution agreement with the National Independents Supermarket Association (NISA).
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Product NewsBakery fat up by a third at New Britain Oils
Liverpool-based New Britain Oils has increased its bakery fats production capacity by 30% to cope with increasing demand for traceable, segregated palm-based products.
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NewsStaff turnover hits industry hard
Up to 17% of manufacturing and 24% of front-of-house staff leave their jobs every year, a new survey has claimed.
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Product NewsInnovation rife at IBA
A staggering 77,000 people went through the doors at last month’s IBA exhibition in Munich, Germany.
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Product NewsRedBlack and Toolbox reveal baking software collaboration
RedBlack Software, the York-based bakery software company, has announced a new partnership with a German firm.
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NewsExclusive: Soreen managing director leaves business
Paul Tripp, the managing director of malt loaf manufacturer Soreen, has resigned, British Baker can reveal.
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Product NewsUlrick & Short launches shelf-life boosting starches
Ingredients specialist Ulrick & Short has launched two starches that it claims increase shelf-life and enhance the height and softness of the loaf with no detriment to taste or texture.
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NewsInnovate to succeed, says foodservice research company Horizons
Operators must offer food from breakfast to bedtime with everything in between or they will be left behind by their competition, according to foodservice research company Horizons.
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Product NewsRoberts Bakery celebrates £2m upgrade
Frank Roberts & Sons Bakery has opened its £2m-plus upgrade of the former Aldreds the Bakers bakery, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, featuring a state-of-the-art sandwich thins line.
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NewsGunstones back to business as normal
Union leaders have confirmed that a settlement has been reached in a pay dispute at Gunstones Bakery in Sheffield.
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NewsHovis scales back production at Wigan
Unions have confirmed that 40 jobs were lost at the end of July, when Hovis closed down a bread production line at its Wigan bakery.
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Product NewsBrook Food launches ultrasonic cake cutter
Brook Food has introduced the Reach Food Systems Ultrasonic Cake Cutter to the UK bakery market.