All British Baker articles in March 2007
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Time to rise to the occasion
British consumers are tucking into more breakfast cereals and smoothies. At the same time, the supply of bread from plant bakeries to the retail trade, including branded lines, own-label goods and bake-off products for in-store and craft bakeries, has been increasing by 4% per annum in value terms. Brand investment ...
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Welcome news for small-scale organic producers
The Soil Association revealed it was targeting a shake-up of the organic certification system, so that hundreds of small bakery companies currently missing out on organic certification could gain access to the scheme, reports Andrew Williams.Jim Twine, commercial director at the The Soil Association, stated the organic body’s aims at ...
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Your Letters
I feel moved to enter the fray about the training of bakers (’NA makes tough decision to close training section’, 26 January, pg 6).I can’t recall an episode of political points scoring like the recent letters sent about this issue. While Elaine Ead may not have been in possession of ...
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Northern Foods trading update
Northern Foods has said that revenue from its bakery division declined by 2.6% in the fourth quarter and 4.6% in the year to date.The trading update, for the 13 weeks ending 31 March 2007, revealed that its market share of the biscuits business continues to be ’relatively stable’.Northern Foods’ bakery ...
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Conference speakers revealed
The Federation of Bakers is preparing for its seventh annual conference, which will take place on 16 May in London.Speakers include: Dame Deidre Hutton, chair of the Food Standards Agency; Guy Farrant, director of food at Marks & Spencer; Jeya Henry, professor of human nutrition at Oxford Brookes University; and ...
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Happy returns for POS company
Point-of-sale touchscreen technology manufacturer J2 Retail Systems is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month with plans to sign more contracts with companies in the baking industry.J2 has more than 50,000 touchscreen tills in operation and clients include national chain Greggs as well as 12 regional bakery groups.It plans to expand ...
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Briefs
n Hull-based bakery chain AC Skelton & Sons went into administration on March 27, blaming competition from supermarkets and energy costs. Skelton’s has 43 retail outlets and supplies supermarkets, airlines and food service customers. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed administrator. No-one was available for comment as British Baker went to press.n ...
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Bakkavor’s UK plans
Icelandic supplier Bakkavor, which now owns UK bakery businesses including New Primebake, said last week that it planned to continue to "lead UK consolidation".The company, which posted its annual results for 2006 last week, said its UK businesses were now worth 92% of the Group’s £1.2bn sales, on a pro ...
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Bakery raider was ’high on crack’
A man has admitted holding up Mr Bunn the Baker in Long Stratton, Norfolk, using a sawn-off shot gun, while high on crack cocaine.Michael Roode appeared at Norwich Crown Court on 21 March and said he and Nigel Bestford, who was allegedly armed with an axe, held up the bakery.After ...
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Bakery shops top high street poll
Bakery shops are the most popular of the specialist food retailers on the high street, according to new shopper research data from Harris International Marketing (HIM).The data, gathered in September 2006, suggests that eight million UK adults (or 17% of the UK adult population) visited a bakery in the past ...
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Bakers show style at IFE
Grated ketchup was just one of the innovative products launched at the IFE07 trade show, held at London’s ExCel centre from March 18-21. The show had 13 sections, including bakery, with food and drink from all around the world on display.Among those exhibitors making a name for themselves were Maple ...
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Baking Industry Awards to honour talented sector
British Baker will be holding its 20th annual Baking Industry Awards on September 17, celebrating outstanding talent in the baking industry.The 11 award categories include three new categories in 2007 (see pg 16). These are the Food-to-go Innovation Award, sponsored by Christian Salveson, Patissier of the Year 2007, sponsored by ...
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Ainsleys hails VAT win
Bakery chain Ainsleys of Leeds has won its long-running legal battle over VAT payments on its ciabatta melts and other fresh baked products, after an High Court appeal was dropped by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).The 31-shop Yorkshire bakery chain has finished legal proceedings, which started in 2004, over ...
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International activity
Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government organisation for developing industry, has launched the first ever management development programme for the bakery and desserts sector.Over the past two to three years, Enterprise Ireland has been working closely with firms in these sectors to identify industry challenges. These include the needs of multiple ...
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Better start to 2007 for RGFC’s bakery division
The Real Good Food Company announced this week that after disappointing results in 2006, its bakery division had made a satisfactory start to this year.Its preliminary results for the year ending 31 December 2006 revealed that profitability of chilled patisserie and dessert bakery Haydens deteriorated in spite of sales being ...
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Learn from our mistakes
I was once asked why did I keep attacking the government, to which the answer was: ’Because they are there.’ Really, however, we should have equal contempt for all politicians as, in my view, very few, if any, could run a small business and succeed.I imagine we are all fed ...
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Citrus joconde
Citrus joconde: (total 715g)190geggs105gicing sugar40gflour145gground almondsZest of 1 orangeZest of 1 lemon30gmelted butter125gegg whites80gsugarWhisk together the eggs, icing sugar, flour, ground almonds and citrus zests. Add the hot butter followed by the egg whites that have been stiffly beaten with the sugar. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake at ...
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NewsLights, camera, sandwich!
Syivia Macdonald visits Paris to find out what makes a prize-winning sandwich at the Delifrance Sandwich World Cup. See Apr 6 British Baker for more