All British Baker articles in March 2007 – Page 7
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Home on the Grange
A leading food company, based in County Durham, which supplies the UK’s major supermarket chains and retailers with cakes, is expanding in a highly competitive market and planning a move into Europe.Grange Mill Foods, based at Seaham, currently produces 50 tons of cake, muffins and tray-bakes every week and is ...
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The Prince and the pasty
He’s very handsome," says Josephine Joy-Commons, who hand-crimps Cornish pasties every day. "He asked me, ’How do you know how much meat to put in each pasty?’ I replied, ’Keeping it clean, sir, a woman always knows how much meat to use.’"The Duke, as the UK’s Special Representative for International ...
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Packaging Watch
"There’s no doubt about it. People’s views of packaging are changing," says Mark Barthel (left), special advisor on retail innovation for the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which aims to reduce packaging and food waste, and encourage recycling."As retailers, bakers and their customers become increasingly aware of their environmental ...
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Message for Macadamia nutters
The Australian Macadamia Society is offering artisan food manufacturers £1,000 for the UK’s Best New Recipe using Macadamia Nuts.The competition has six recipe categories including Cake, Biscuit, Pastry or Dessert; Snack or Confectionery; Cereal, Bread or Cracker.Competition entries will be judged on quality and best use of ingredients, and the ...
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Your Letters
The National Federation of Bakery Student Societies/IBB Alliance is an organisation that has served the student body of the Baking Industry for the last 81 years. Lately, in light of the changing dynamic of education and the industry, the organisation has conducted a strategic review. As a result ...
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Join in the fundraiser
One of the patients treated at the Children’s Trust is 13-year-old Josh. He was knocked down by a lorry while doing a paper-round. His doctors expressed little hope of recovery, but after three weeks, when Josh came out of his coma, he was unable to walk, talk or eat. Six ...
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Diary of a Swiss trip
Robert CampbellAfter two months, the day that I was flying out to Switzerland had finally arrived. I was already starting to feel nervous and I hadn’t started my two-and-three-quarter-hour train journey to Manchester airport.At 10.45amI arrived at the airport, making my way to terminal 1, feeling more nervous, not only ...
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Tryton Foods to cut workforce
Tryton Foods, best-known for Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings, is cutting 30 jobs in Hull.The jobs will go as production of some goods is transferred from a subsidiary unit to the main Tryton plant in the city.A spokesman commented that the company was continuing to grow, but needed to make ...
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Commodities tracker
Sugar prices are expected to fall further in 2007, according to the International Sugar Organization’s monthly market report on the world sugar market. However, it said sugar commodities in January were in line with expectations.The report said that world raw sugar prices were expected to continue to fall because of ...
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Jobs to go as pizza line closes
Schwan’s Consumer Brands is closing a production line at its plant in Leyland with the loss of 30 pizza bakery jobs.Orders at the Leyland plant, which makes the Chicago Town pizza range, have dropped since Christmas while new business has evolved at its main production site in Germany. It is ...
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EU law may make health claims more difficult
New EU health claims legislation may mean that bakers can no longer make on-pack health claims for fortified breads, such as those fortified with omega-3.The regulation (EC 1924/2006), set to be ratified in the summer and then phased in, covers nutrition and health claims made on foods. It will mean ...
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Ferrari’s finds buyer
A corporate recovery firm has saved 500 jobs at Ferrari’s Bakery after making an as set purchase of the Welsh business on February 27.The 60-shop bakery with central factory, based in Hirwaun, Aberdare (number 15 in British Baker’s top 50 bakery retailers list) went into administration on December 18.Cameron Gunn ...
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knowing your business
While I sit at my desk writing this, a hard-working electrician doing a job for me has just asked: "What kind of government is it that penalises the working people to give to the lazy?" There is no answer to that except to say, "A British one".And one question remains ...
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Health to the fore at BSB Conference
Health is set to be a hot topic at the British Society of Baking’s Spring Conference. Two of the keynote speeches at the event will be ’Reducing salt in cakes and biscuits’ and ’Health and well-being’, delivered, respectively, by Dinnie Jordan and Laetitia Rocha.Jordan runs Kudos Blends, which formulates raising ...
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Buy British
Food from Britain (FFB) will be promoting British regional food and drink to both UK and international buyers through its presence at IFE07 (stand NH 1755). FFB will host a business lounge for overseas buyers looking to source food from Britain, and has worked with the English Regional Food Groups ...
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Briefs
n Nearly 80% of 17,000 mothers who took part in an FSA online survey supported the Traffic Light Labelling scheme over the rival Guideline Daily Amount labelling scheme preferred by some retailers and manufacturers.n Denver Cottage Bakery of Ilkeston in Derbyshire has been fined more than £1,800 after mouse droppings ...
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’Green’ light for degradable bags
D empson, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of printed bags, has launched a range of environmentally friendly and degradable bags.The range includes polylactic acid (PLA) film fronted and window sandwich/baguette bags as well as high-density degradable polythene carrier bags. These replace the traditional options previously offered by the company.The ...
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UK bagel sales help boost Maple Leaf’s performance
Canadian company Maple Leaf Foods said last week that its UK bakery acquisitions contributed to a 7% rise in sales in its bakery group in the fourth quarter of 2006.The UK bakery business, best known for the New York Bagel Co brand, saw excellent performance, it said, benefiting from ...