All British Baker articles in March 2010 – Page 3
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Bakels targets convenience
Ingredients supplier Bakels has added four new product launches and six new and improved recipes to its line-up of cake and sponge mixes, all aimed at increasing convenience for bakers.Leading the launches is Genoese Mix Complete for producing a Genoese slab for celebration and novelty cakes that require a flat ...
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FSA announces salt reduction progress
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published commitments from a number of bakery manufacturers highlighting the progress they’ve made with salt reduction.
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FSA announces salt reduction progress
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published commitments from a number of bakery manufacturers highlighting the progress they’ve made with salt reduction. The document which features commitments from retailers, manufacturers and key trade associations, includes companies such as Burton’s Foods, United Biscuits and Premier Foods.Marks and Spencer has announced its ...
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American take on cakes
The Handmade Cake Company has developed its traybakes range with four new or improved offerings all with a North American influence. Now available are Rocky Road, Chocolate Pecan Brownie, Lemon Drizzle and Granola varieties. The traybakes are pre-portioned into 12 pieces and have a recommended retail price of £1.50-£1.90.The ...
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Aldi boost for Welsh bakery
Cae Groes Bakery in North Wales hopes to double its turn-over as business with super-market chain Aldi takes off.The bakery, which makes bread, morning goods and cakes, has been supplying Aldi for 18 months and won a new contract to supply cakes to the supermarket in autumn 2009. It now ...
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Bakers join abolition call on upward-only rents
Bakery retailers are showing their support for criticism of upward-only rent reviews, with calls for the practice to be abolished in the UK.The Irish government banned upward-only rent reviews in all new retail leases last month, while the British Retail Consortium (BRC) in the UK is currently gathering evidence from ...
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Next issue 9 April
lBaking Industry ExhibitionWe report on the exciting launches found at the UK’s premier bakery exhibition and Food & Drink WorldlFlavouringsHow can you add a bit of zing to your offer? Flavour suppliers give us the lowdownlThe Big InterviewIan Toal, MD of bakery giant Delice de France, on how the company ...
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GreenPalm raises $4m
Over $4m has been raised so far from the sale of GreenPalm certificates, since the start of the scheme 18 months ago, and there are plans for a European roll-out.The $4m figure equates to the sale of 460,000 certificates, said Bob Norman, general manager of Book&Claim, which operates the ...
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19 July, 1940: War leads to messy cakes
It will be an offence, after 5 August, 1940, to place sugar on the exterior of any cake, biscuit, bun, pastry, scone, bread, roll or similar article, after baking. It will not be permitted to sell or to buy any confectionery of this kind. In an instruction to trade associations, ...
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Popina Book of Baking by Isidora Popovic´ Ryland Peters & Small, £16.99
Isidora Popovic´ ’s debut baking book arrives complete with a front cover endorsement from none other Liz Hurley. But don’t let that put you off. The Serbian-born Popovic´ is the baker behind the niche Popina brand. Established as a market stall 10 years ago, it has since been sold ...
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British Baker columnist fronts BBC4 show tonight!
Tune in to BBC4 at 9pm tonight (Thursday, 25 March) to catch British Baker columnist Tom Herbert, who will be fronting a programme based on his search to create a prize-winning organic loaf. Titled ‘In Search of the Perfect Loaf’, it will follow the 32-year-old baker’s quest to bake a ...
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Patisserie Valerie is set to expand
Premium café chain Patisserie Valerie is on target to have 125 stores by 2013, with at least six opening this year.
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Patisserie Valerie is set to expand
Premium café chain Patisserie Valerie is on target to have 125 stores by 2013, with at least six opening this year.Shops in Leeds, Bath, and London will soon follow those recently launched in Cambridge and Canterbury and the firm is in negotiations to open even more in 2010. There are ...
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Front-of-pack salt labelling moves closer
The Food Standards Agency has commissioned research into consumer undertsanding of salt labelling on food, ahead of proposed EU legislation to force all prepackaged food products to carry front-of-pack information highlighting salt content.Key findings from the research included confusion among consumers over the relationship between salt and sodium, with a ...
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Cake sales fall at Finsbury
Finsbury Food Group has reported an 11% decline in cake sales in the first eight weeks of 2010, as consumers continue to trade down.In its interim results for the 26 weeks to 2 January, 2010, the country’s second-largest cake producer reported an 8% fall in like-for-like cake sales to £65.3m, ...
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Cake sales fall at Finsbury
Finsbury Food Group has reported an 11% decline in cake sales in the first eight weeks of 2010, as consumers continue to trade down.
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Firkins announces shops closures and planned openings
Troubled bakery chain Firkins is closing three of its stores, just a few months after the chain was bought out of administration for the third time.
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Firkins announces shops closures and planned openings
Troubled bakery chain Firkins is closing three of its stores, just a few months after the chain was bought out of administration for the third time.However the West Midlands company - now trading as Newbridge Bakery - is set to open six stores in the region and insists it is ...
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GreenPalm raises $4m
Over $4m has been raised so far from the sale of GreenPalm certificates, since the start of the scheme 18 months ago, and there are plans for a European roll-out.The $4m figure equates to the sale of 460,000 certificates, said Bob Norman, general manager of Book&Claim, which operates the ...
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Front-of-pack salt labelling moves closer
The Food Standards Agency has commissioned research into consumer undertsanding of salt labelling on food, ahead of proposed EU legislation to force all prepackaged food products to carry front-of-pack information highlighting salt content.