All British Baker articles in May 2006 – Page 4
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Food Design cuts hydrogenated fats
Food Design (Harrogate, Yorks) has announced it now uses non-hydrogenated vegetable oils in the manufacture of its fudge and toffee ingredients. The company says this healthy option retains taste and eye appeal while offering high performance. Food Design has recently developed natural mint and citrus fruit flavoured high-boiled confectionery for ...
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Cookies for everyone
Forget sitting down for tea and biscuits, it seems everyone wants a cookie-on-the-go these days. According to TNS, the freshly baked cookie market was worth a healthy £26.9m in the 52 weeks to April 23, 2006 – up 4.8% year-on-year. Influenced by the coffee shop sector, consumers are seeking individual ...
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A Rich range of cookies
Rich’s (Fareham, Hampshire) Premier range of bake-off cookies is aimed at the top end of the market. It also offers a new range of individually wrapped thaw-and-serve cookies in triple choc chunk, white choc chunk and milk choc chunk. The range has been created from recipes developed by Rich’s US ...
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Macphie (Glenbervie, Scotland) has launched premium Soft & Chewy Cookie Mix in four flavours, made with non-hydrogenated fat. The ‘add-water’ mixes are available in plain, chocolate, chocolate chunk and oat & raisin. Ian Wolfenden, commercial director, bakery solutions, says the Soft & Chewy mixes offer greater economy than buying in ...
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NewsCereform new cookie mix
New Manhattan Cookie Mix from Cereform (Northampton) produces a US-style cookie, which offers a taste and texture more suited to the UK market, says the company. Available in chocolate or plain, bakers can add fruit, nuts or chocolate to the mix to give a signature cookie.Manhattan Cookie Mix requires the ...
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Extranet launch by British Sugar
British Sugar has launched BS Connect, an extranet service designed to provide its custo-mers with information to suit their individual requirements.The launch, says British Sugar, is in response to customer needs for real-time, confidential and instant access to information, including pricing data. Marketing operations manager Myra Hales says the service ...
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In Brief
Latin American bakery firm Bimbo is entering the Chinese market through the acquisition of Beijing Panrico Food Processing Center from Spain’s Panrico, in a deal valued at E9.2m. The local company produces a variety of baked goods, including chocolate-filled bread buns; in Spain Panrico’s Bollycao filled buns are market leader.Budgens ...
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Mills boost profits at Carr’s division
Three flour mills were the principal contributors to Carr’s Milling Industries’ food division seeing an 18% rise in pre-tax profits to £4.57m, in the 26 weeks to March 4, 2006. Sales were up over 40% to £110.4m. Carr’s said there was strong trading in the food division as it benefited ...
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Byron Bay watch
The Byron Bay Cookie Company was founded by Maggi Miles and Gary Lines, fashion industry workers who returned to their native Australia after six years in New York. While considering their next business venture, the couple started baking for local markets under the name Pickles, Pies and Petticoats. Ms Miles ...
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Bakery fined on contamination
A NORFOLK bakery has been fined a total of £2,000 after a contaminated bread roll was delivered to a canteen at Norwich City Hall – headquarters of Norwich Environmental Health Department.Ian Watkins of the Cottage Loaf Bakery, Hopton, near Yar-mouth, admitted selling sub-standard food when he appeared before Norwich magistrates. ...
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Bakers welcome grocery trade referral
Bakers have welcomed news this week that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will refer the supply of groceries by UK retailers to the Competition Commission (CC) for investigation.National Association of Master Bakers (NA) chief executive David Smith told British Baker: “This is a lot more than we dared hope ...
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Ludlow baker gets to finals
Peter Cook, joint owner of Ludlow-based SC Price & Sons, has been named a finalist in the Waitrose Small Producer of the Year competition.His winning entry is a Pain au Levain sourdough bread, based on flour from Shipton Mill, which took him three to four years to develop. At £2.60, ...
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Milkybar cookies are on BakeMark
BakeMark UK (Wirral, Merseyside) has worked with Nestlé to launch a range of licenced cookies, which target the trend for indulgent treats. The Toffee Crisp soft-bake cookie features chunks of chocolate and crunchy Toffee Crisp pieces, while Milkybar mini cookies are full of white chocolate pieces. Also available are chewy, ...
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NewsInter Link sales hit as Mr Kipling bounces back
Cake giant Inter Link had its first major setback last week as it issued a surprise profit warning, blaming unsuccessful promotional activity in April.Inter Link said April is traditionally one of its busiest trading periods, but that significant promotional activity had been unsuccessful. Like-for-like sales for the year to May ...
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Holland’s grabs CNN’s attention
American broadcaster CNN was inspired by the recent visit of American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the north-west to recommend activities for her to enjoy during her stay. It put Accrington-based pie company Holland’s Pies on her proposed itinerary, deciding the company is synonymous with the region. CNN reporters ...
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NewsLocal craft bakery fights Greggs arrival next door
A LOCAL craft baker says he is fighting to save his livelihood after finding out bakery take-away giant Greggs has bought the shop next door to his.Mr Mejar Singh, who owns WC Masters & Son bakery in Atherstone, North Warwick-shire, found out a month ago that the former hairdresser next ...
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NewsFACE TO FACE - ANDREW POLLARD, Sales and Marketing Director, Cereform
Q. Tell me about the background of Cereform.A. Cereform is part of AB Mauri, the yeast and bakery ingredients division of Associated British Foods. The company dates back to 1982, when Associated British Foods set up AB Ingredients. It merged with Kingsgate Food Ingredients in 2001 and later that year ...
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Premium products to Adore
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) supplies the Adore brand, which comprises four lines of individually-wrapped premium bakery products: muffins, brownies, indulgence cakes and US-style cookies, available in a variety of flavours.The company says the brand has been developed to meet a need for high quality, individually packaged bakery goods, suitable for ...
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Adding value with inclusions
Renshaw (Liverpool, Merseyside) offers a range of ingredients to help bakers make value-added cookies. The company recommends adding its bake-stable, dark chocolate flavour chips to any of its basic cookie dough, pucks or mixes to make chocolate chip cookies. The chips are said not to lose their flavour during cooking ...
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New-look loaves mark Hovis’ 120th birthday
British Bakeries is to relaunch its wholemeal Hovis loaves as it celebrates the 120th birthday of the Hovis brand.New-look 800g and 400g wholemeal loaves, in opaque tomato or baked beans packaging, flagged ‘new improved recipe’, will be available from this week, marketing manager Alyson Ebbrell told British Baker. The recipe ...