All British Baker articles in May 2008 – Page 3
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Northern sees bakery rise
Northern Foods has reported a strong performance in bakery sales for the year to 29 March.The Goodfellas pizza and Fox’s biscuits manufacturer saw total pre-tax profits rise 25% year-on-year to £50.1m. In its bakery division, revenue rose to £205m in 2008, from £197.3m in 2007, with profits up to £14.9m ...
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Bakery School goes live
Web-based training resource The Bakery School will go live tomorrow (31 May). The website - at www.thebakeryschool.com - has 40 modules, divided into three main categories - ingredients, processes and methods and problem solving. Each module will include a multiple-choice exam and a printable certificate. The Bakery School has been set up by Jean Grieves and Albert Waterfield MBE as a low-cost solution to the skills crisis faced by the baking industry. "It’s training at minimal cost to the employer," said Grieves. An annual licence for the site – which includes one password and username – costs £250. Multiple rates are negotiable. Profits will be reinvested in the business, and further modules developed. The Bakery School’s homepage includes a couple of demonstration modules so interested companies can see how it works.
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Organics organisation woos bakers
Bakers, millers and sandwich makers are being urged to join a new commercial trade body, which has been set a remit to represent organic food processors’ commercial interests.The Organic Trade Board (OTB) has been launched to co-ordinate promotions, consumer and scientific research and "to beat the organic drum", said Lizzie ...
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Richemont returns to Bakers’ Fair
The Richemont Club will again hold its annual competition at this year’s Bakers’ Fair on 19 October.The free event, organised by British Baker’s publisher William Reed, will be held at Sheffield’s Don Valley stadium from 9.30am until 4pm.The show will be packed with exhibitors drawn from key bakery supply ...
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In the Archives
== Oct 7, 1955: Sainsbury’s ends home deliveries ==While many bakers dither over the delivery charge, they may like to consider the decision taken by one of the largest grocers in the country, J Sainsbury, which operates some 250 shops and has stopped the domestic delivery side of its business.In ...
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A world apart
Italy is renowned worldwide for its gastronomy and that gastronomy is part of our history, culture and tradition," says Davide Nardini, vice-president of the Council for the Province of Ferrara. "Here in Italy, food is an expression of our cultural heritage," adds Carlo Alberto Roncarati, president of the Chamber of ...
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The Genius of Dr Allinson
The words right are not those of a religious zealot. Neither are they transcribed from a holy book. They are, in fact, the Dr’s prescribed cure for zits.On pimples and blackheads: "To promote cure, all bad habits must be stopped. Tobacco in all forms must be given up. All stimulants, ...
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Best Bakeries applies for administration: fire breaks out
Firemen were called in to tackle a blaze that broke out among vans at South Wales’ Ferraris Bakery last night. Three lorries were damaged in the fire outside the plant at Hirwaun in the Cynon Valley, but the bakery itself was unaffected, according to a source. The fire broke out on the same day that Best Bakeries, which owns the plant, applied for administration and laid off around 50 staff. Forty-two employees remain at the plant and business will continue as usual. Ferraris’ shops will continue to be supplied with products, a spokesperson told the BBC. It is not the first time the plant has run into trouble - it went into administration in 2006 under previous owners Cleary Foods. Current owners Best Bakeries bought the business from administrators Begbies Traynor in February 2007, saving 600 jobs. The bakery was severely damaged by a blaze in April 2007.
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Abim forum examines sustainability
The Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers (abim) 2008 forum, ’Growing A Sustainable Bakery Industry’, is to take place on 6 June.The event, which will be staged at the Devonshire Arms Country House Hotel, Bolton Abbey, Skipton, will start with a buffet lunch and networking opportunity, followed by a programme ...
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Cooks the Bakery ties up leaseholds after 2006 purchase of Three Cooks
Solihull’s Cooks the Bakery has completed the acquisition of 120 leasehold stores from the administrators of Three Cooks.The leasehold agreements mark the final stage in the transfer of the Three Cooks business to Cooks the Bakery, after it bought the business and trade of the firm from administra- ...
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Belcolade celebrates 20th birthday in style
Belcolade’s marketing executive Lydia Baines (pictured) holds aloft a chocolate dessert, made especially to celebrate the company’s 20th birthday.The birthday party took place at Whittlebury Hall at the end of a golf and spa day out for many of its largest buyers. The event was hosted by Dan Oakley, managing ...
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Next issue 13 June
== lOrganic bakery ==With Fairtrade and local sourcing in the ascendancy, we ask organic bakers: is organics facing an identity crisis?== lProfile ==We speak to Proper Cornish Food Company to find out how their relaunched biscuit brand, Furniss of Cornwall, is faring== lAutomation & robotics ==All the latest ...
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Seasonal seller
The British climate is particularly good for growing gooseberries and the season starts midway through June, with the small green berries being available first. These are very tart and need to be stewed or cooked with sugar.Towards the end of the season, the yellow, golden or red dessert gooseberries appear, ...
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Sandwich guru
Last year, we at the SoHo Sandwich Co were awarded the coveted prize of Sandwich Designer of the Year, writes Adam Gilbert. This award was extremely well-contested across the country, with hundreds of excellent sandwiches being entered by some of the country’s leading sandwich retailers and manufacturers, so it came ...
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Master baking: Sesame Stonecut
At the time this bread was developed, we were short of prover space and needed another line that required little work, writes master baker Ian Thompson of Newcastle’s Thompson’s Bakery. Paul Marshall a technical friend of ours suggested this product, so we adapted it from an old Italian recipe.We use ...
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In my world: the plant baker
== John Foster - Fosters Bakery Fosters Bakery, based in Barnsley, south Yorkshire, supplies fresh and frozen products to major retailers, airlines and caterers ==It’s official; the ’powers that be’ think British people are stupid compared to our European neighbours! Well, they do when it comes to nutritional ...
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Rises & Falls
== Best of times ==It’s good news for those hiking Everest as there’s now a bakery at base camp, 5,350 metres up the mountain, where explorers can feast on the likes of chocolate cookies, doughnuts, banana bread and apple pie to keep their spirits up... Brazilian bakers should benefit ...
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Greencore’s half-year profits up
Greencore Group has reported a "solid" overall performance in the half year to March 28.The convenience food and ingredients group saw group sales up 2.5% to €648.7m (£514.3m) and operating profit up by the same percentage to €41.1m (32.6m).Its ingredients and property division recorded a "very strong performance" with operating ...
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Fresh! naturally organic launch new pie and quiche range
A new range of pies and quiches are on the menu at fresh! naturally organic. The award winning organic sandwich and salad company has launched ‘Pie In The Sky’ and ‘Quiche Me Quick’ ranges, targeted at the retail, convenience and foodservice markets. The varieties of pies include beef, red wine ...
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Warburton: low bread prices ’unsustainable’
Retailers will have to increase bread prices as the cost of raw ingredients continues to rocket, according to Warburtons chairman Jonathan Warburton.Speaking at a KPMG retail event on the issue of increased bread prices, Warburton said: “The last 12 to 18 months have been challenging for the food industry as ...