All British Baker articles in March 2008 – Page 3
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Bakery School on the web
At the British Society of Baking Conference a new ’Bakery School’ on the web will be revealed.The school will initially demonstrate 56 different bakery modules so on-line students can learn practical applications with ingredients such as fondants.
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Finsbury makes 2.61m pre-tax profits
Finsbury Foods, the holding company for Lightbodys, Nicholas & Harris and Memory Lane Cakes, among others has revealed successful interim profits.
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Bakery staff shell out
Children spending the Easter period away from home received an egg-stra special Easter treat thanks to a dough-nation from a family baker.Brace’s Bakery visited four Wales Women’s Aid refuges in South Wales and the children’s wards at Singleton Hospital, Swansea and the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport armed with Easter eggs ...
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Reporting in
The last few months have seen extraordinary gyrations in grain prices. The quality wheat market has been especially affected as Canadian prices doubled between November and February before falling back in the first week of March.Looking forward, most expectations are for continuing volatility associated with uncertainties about the forthcoming harvest, ...
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Plant Product of the Year
This new category in the Baking Industry Awards has been created to reward new product innovation from the industry’s largest companies. Plant bakers, industrial cake producers and large desserts manufacturers, which have launched innovative new products in the past year, are all encouraged to enter the Puratos-sponsored award."We pride ourselves ...
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Medway pastry plant saved by management
A Welsh pastry business and 40 jobs have been saved, after senior management took control of the firm in a £1m deal.Sales directors Emma Crowther and Philip Stanton, finance director Ceri Smith and operations director Mark Jones all worked for frozen food manufacturer Medway Foods, which operated three factories at ...
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Last year’s winner:Simon Oddie, operations manager, Waterfields
"Winning the Craft Bakery Award last year confirmed what we’re about. The craft of baking is our focus - we have a wide range of products and devote a lot of time to staff, skills and training. We used the awards - John Waterfield was also named Baker of ...
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NewsTop toasters: Krusty’s rotating toaster
Debate raged on one blogging site recently about the merits of this amateur inventor’s solution to that age-old riddle: how do you toast your bread evenly? This beautifully illustrated idea involves an electric motor to turn the centre shaft, and "the slow rotation of the gear shaft produces a more ...
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Irwin’s opts for new software
Irwin’s, the Irish plant bakery, has installed the latest version of QuickStep Food and Beverage from Lawson Software, along with Lawson Business Intelligence, to improve communication across its UK-wide supply chain."It’s a demand-driven system," says executive chairman Brian Irwin, "which means that products will be made and delivered more efficiently, ...
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Health watch
Consumers are increasingly opting to avoid products with gluten and wheat because they want less of them in their diet and not because they may have a food sensitivity, according to a report commissioned by Mrs Crimble’s ’free-from’ cake and biscuit brand.The report found that consumers were being swayed towards ...
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Rogue trader fuels price rises
A rogue trader at the commodity broker MF Global played a large part in pushing up global wheat prices at the end of February, taking huge personal bets on the direction of wheat prices and losing $141.5m (£71m).The company fired trader Evan Dooley at its Memphis office for an "awful" ...
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Functional foods
The baking industry could do its bit to combat cancer by including extracts from mangos in a range of products. Mangos are rich in antioxidants and dietary fibre, according to new scientific research.The Journal of Cereal Science reported that, during the research, mango peel powder had been used to make ...
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Warburtons plans to open Yorkshire depot
Warburtons plans to build a distribution site at Howden in east Yorkshire because it has outgrown its existing depot in the region at Gilberdyke.The 15,000sq ft depot, which will be based on the Ozone Business Park close to the M62 motorway, is being developed to the company’s specification by Horncastle ...
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Greggs reveals record profits as ingredients costs keep on rising
Greggs unveiled full-year pre-tax profits last week of £49m - up 12% on 2006. This is despite substantial rises in the cost of energy and key ingredients including flour and vegetable oils, which pushed up selling prices by 5% over the year.MD Sir Michael Darrington gave an upbeat assessment of ...
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Cost cuts stimulate Grainfarmers’ profits
Grainfarmers Group, which recently struck a deal with Sainsbury’s to supply its in-store bakeries with fully traceable milling wheat, has reached profitability after paring down staff and transport costs.Chairman Andrew Christie-Miller told British Baker that creating a leaner, more efficient operation and seeking further agreements with "other major end users" ...
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Confectionery products
and biscuits are more easily recognised on the supermarket shelf and are more likely to be purchased if they are in cartons. A study by market research company TNS Dimarso, showed consumers three different product categories, each of them packed in a carton as well as another format. Cartons were ...
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Swiss style comes to Manchester
A Lancashire pastry chef who learnt the trade from a Swiss master baker in Lytham St Anne’s has returned from 20 years working abroad to open The Deliciously Swiss Artisan Bakery & Patisserie in Didsbury, Manchester.Mark Cooper opened the doors of his new shop on Valentine’s Day and has met ...
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Coca-Cola gets to grips with packaging
Coca-Cola Enterprises is to introduce an easy-to-hold ’grip" packaging design across all its 500ml PET bottles of leading soft drinks brands - Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero.The launch of the grip bottle marks the first significant change to the 500ml contour bottle design in 23 years. Steve Fry, marketing ...