All British Baker articles in May 2009
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Cake decoration company’s sales skyrocket
Warrington-based company Windsor CakeCraft has seen its internet sales increase 2,300% as the credit crunch encourages consumers to decorate their own celebration cakes.
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Pork Farms to display British Lion egg logo
Pork Farms has become the first major retail brand to display the British Lion egg products mark on-pack.
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Northern Foods sees strong performance in bakery
Northern Foods announced a “strong performance” in its Bakery division in its full year results to 28 March 2009.
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In my world
Tom Herbert is a fifth-generation baker and director of Hobbs House Bakery, a multi-award-winning craft bakery, based in Gloucestershire"When are you opening?" I have fielded this question a hundred times as tradesmen in high-visibility jackets squat and stretch all over our new shop in Cirencester. The soft opening ...
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A way with words
As craft bakers, along with other independent retailers, you may be feeling the pinch. Cost-cutting is important and, at times like these, it seems an easy option to stop spending time or money on marketing and publicity. But this would be a mistake. Your customers, the consumers, are also ...
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Students’ success
Competitions, karaoke and camaraderie were just a few of the ingredients that went into an eventful May Bank Holiday weekend at the Alliance of Bakery Students and Trainees’ (ABST) conference in Torquay.Held at the Toorak Hotel, there were a few moments during the Friday night dinner, when the conference looked ...
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Spring into the summer
Summer is just around the corner, which means it’s time to review your beverage and snacking offer. As you know, when the sun shines, our sales are often affected and not always to our benefit. So let’s explore a ’weather friendly’ menu. With temperatures rising, hot drinks will fall, so ...
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In Short
== Employee cleared ==In our 22 August 2008 issue we published a story on bakery employee Paul Bentley, charged with attempting to contaminate food with peanuts at Pork Farms in Nottingham. Bentley was found not guilty of possessing material for contamination on all charges by Judge John Stokes on 24 ...
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In Short
== Tesco’s Genius move ==Recently launched gluten-free bread brand Genius is to launch on the shelves of Tesco from mid-May. Available in brown and white varieties, it is made with natural ingredients, and was invented by trained chef and co-author of Leith’s Techniques Bible Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, who wanted to create ...
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Report
Consumers are in favour of a single front-of-pack (FOP) labelling scheme, according to the results of a research project by the Project Management Panel, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency.The aim of the study, led by an independent group of experts, was to evaluate the impact of different FOP nutritional ...
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Seed pricing
Pine nuts: The problem of shorter supply out of China has been exacerbated by the ending of any volumes being allowed to be imported from neighbouring former Soviet Union states, leaving China stranded, with insufficient stocks to meet its existing and new forward demand. We would advise manufacturers to reverse ...
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Mouthing off
Customer: "So it’ll be either you or Joanna Lumley running the country next?" Vince Cable: "Hopefully me AND Joanna Lumley" - Following a tough week for MPs embroiled in the expenses scandal, squeaky-clean Lib Dem treasury spokesman Vince Cable, approached by a customer at The Cavan Bakery, eyes a ...
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Minimum wage to rise from October
The National Minimum Wage will rise to £5.80 per hour from October this year, for workers aged 22 and over, the government announced last week. This is a 7p increase per hour on the current rate of £5.73 - a rise of 1.2%.For 18- to 22-year-olds the rate will increase ...
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Missing out on a Mini
The truth of the phrase "you’ve got to be in it to win it" has never been more cruelly exposed - at least in the world of bakery - than it was last week at Bako London’s showcase event to mark its 50th anniversary.Let’s set the scene. Bako, in its ...
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Spice rack: Ginger
Ginger has been used in British baking for many years in gingerbreads, ginger cakes, parkins and ginger snaps. Although you can occasionally use grated fresh root ginger in cakes and biscuits, ground ginger is more generally used and, in some recipes, the flavour of ginger can be ...
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Sandwich forum
Following on from BB’s sandwich forum in 8 May issue, we ask:How do you increase the amount your customers spend with you?MY: By offering great value meal deals - this drives both extra eat-in and take away sales. Staff will also ask customers if they would like a drink with ...
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Forfars finds time-saver
Sussex bakery chain Forfars has reduced costs and man-hours after introducing the Toshiba B-SV4D compact desktop printers and Solo software from KTEC to print labels. With label formats stored on the printers, the time-consuming manual labelling process was replaced by printing on demand. The KTEC solution is USB-based, so any ...
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Eye to the future
Benier - how do you pronounce it? Well, it’s not ’benny-er’, though many of us may have thought so. It’s more like ’ben ear’ and MD David Marsh has a useful way of helping customers and hapless journalists remember. He says we should just think of the phrase ’bin ’ere, ...