All British Baker articles in March 2006 – Page 3
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Canadian giant tipped to take over Walsall bakery
Canada’s market leader in industrial baking is tipped to be pushing further into the UK with the purchase of Walsall’s Harvestime (2005) bakery.Industry giant Maple Leaf Foods, which operates Canada Bread and owns the New York Bagel brand, is understood to have entered negotiations with administrators last week.It is now ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Scientists believe lust has a lifespan of only two years, so thank goodness we are in the bakery business, where my best-selling lines of 20 years ago are still my top sellers today. (On a personal note, I am sure my lust lasted longer than two years, but I cannot ...
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BakeMark teams up with Nestlé
BakeMark UK (Wirral, Merseyside) is launching two Nestlé doughnuts – the Rolo and Toffee Crisp. With the ring doughnut market currently growing at 26% year on year, BakeMark UK has identified value-added doughnuts as a core category for future NPD and investment.The thaw/serve doughnuts weigh 65g and come in boxes ...
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NewsSainsbury’s launches apprenticeship scheme
Sainsbury’s is targeting school leavers for an in-store Bakery Apprenticeship Scheme which it plans to roll out to all 360 of its scratch bakeries.The supermarket plans to recruit the first 30 trainees to pilot the scheme in the north east and London this year. It hopes to introduce a further ...
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GR Wright & Sons
Independent miller GR Wright & Sons (London) offers a US-style donut mix packed in 12kg bags. The mix produces long-life donuts with low fat pick-up. It requires the addition of yeast and water to produce golden donuts with a light, open texture, says the company.
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Aga in growth
Aga Foodservice Group said it saw strong sales and profits in 2005. Revenue rose 15.7% to £501.8m while pre-tax profits were up 18.5% to £43m.Chief executive William McGrath said earnings growth reflected a successful strategy over the past five years based on premium cookers and refrigeration. This has resulted in ...
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NewsSpeakers address the BSB
more than 150 delegates attended the British Society of Baking’s 50th Jubilee conference in Birmingham this week. Members heard papers from eminent industry figures including Greggs MD, Sir Michael Darrington, who spoke about the importance of “Greggs’ People” and making sure corporate values run through a business “from bakery to ...
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NewsViewpoint
It has been a very busy week in the industry: Warburton’s opening a new bakery, and the continuing situation at Harvestime; Greggs’ results; the Competition Commission Review; Sonneveld breaking into the improvers market. I suspect that those of you who bump into colleagues at Food & Bake this week, March ...
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NewsSunflower power
Have you ever seen fields of sunflowers swaying gently in the summer breeze, a beautiful blend of yellow and green emboldened by dramatic black centres? It was certainly a sight that seared into the soul of Holland’s famous post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh, whose painting of sunflowers forged his fame. ...
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Obituary
ROBERT Rich, founder and chairman of Rich Products Corporation, has died, aged 92. Robert Rich invented the world’s first non-dairy whipped topping, Rich’s Whip Topping, in 1945. Based on soybean, the topping was developed because of the shortage of milk during the war years. Nevin Montgomery, president and CEO ...
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NewsLetter
The decision by the Office of Fair Trading to refer the supermarket industry to the Competition Commission is a victory for the Independent Retailers Confederation (IRC) and the All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group of MPs . We believe the report, called High Street Britain 2015 and published last month, was ...
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NewsGreggs lifts the curtain
A large bakery plant, with several freezer and chiller rooms using plastic strip doors to maintain the right temperature, can run into downtime and health and safety issues. This proved the case for Tyneside plant baker Greggs North East, which has 21 freezer and chill rooms.Each door featured an overhead ...
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NewsRising energy costs and competition hit Greggs
Retail baker Greggs reported it had been hit by a 60% year-on-year increase in energy costs, as it posted its premiminary results for 2005 last week.The baker came to the end of of a three-year electrity contract last October and, since then has seen “significantly higher increases than most people ...
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Whitco nets a clean finish
Whitco Catering and Bakery Equipment (stand C76) will introduce its new stainless steel finish display counters. These complement the red, green, gold and wood finish models in the range. Counters can be either stand-alone or multiplexed, with three types of glass and shelf configurations to suit bakery, sandwich bar or ...
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Northern feels the chill
Northern Foods revealed its bakery and pastry divisions had been seriously hit in the early weeks of 2006, as it announced it is starting a strategic review of its business this week.The supplier’s biscuit sales in January and February were 12% lower than the previous year and the market continues ...
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Harvestime finds buyer but wrangle continues
A sale of Harvestime (2005)’s Walsall bakery was being delayed by a wrangle over the lease, as British Baker went to press. A buyer is waiting to take over the site, which is in administration. But the deal, which would secure 320 jobs, is being held up by the site’s ...
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IAWS profits from growth in food business
Agri-Food group IAWS has reported a 22.6% increase in pre-tax profits for the six months to the end of January. Group pre-tax profits rose to €49.4 million (£33.9m) on sales up by 13.4% to €715m (£492m).The Delice de France and Cuisine de France owner said growth at its food business ...
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In Brief
- British Bakeries plans to create 200 jobs at the former Harvestime (2005) site in Leicester, which it bought out of administration last month. The site is operating at 25% capacity and one plant is fully operational, producing Hovis bread. The baker has already recruited 45 people and plans to ...
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In Brief
- Ingredients company Macphie has launched a new website – www.macphie.com – showcasing ingredients for bakers, foodservice operators and food manufacturers. To celebrate the launch, it is running an on-line competition to win one of five iPod nanos. Readers can log-on and register their details before April 30 for ...
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Big just got bigger
When Warburtons opened its futuristic £40m Enfield bakery in October 2003 it struck awe into rival bakers and customers. The massive high-tech automated bakery, capable of making 8,000 800g loaves an hour, set a new gold standard in efficient plant baking. Three years on, Warburtons has gone bigger and better, ...