All British Baker articles in May 2010
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Bakers benefit from point-of-sale website
Craft bakers are using an innovative website as a low-cost way to help advertise their business.
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Lees Foods sees healthy profit rise
Lees Foods has seen its year-on-year pre-tax profit increase more than twofold from £379k in 2008 to £843k in 2009.
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Square Pie announces World Cup pie-off
Square Pie has announced that its Pie World Cup is to return to coincide with the Football World Cup this summer.
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NewsMama’s Cosmopolitan Cupcake
Britain’s official best cupcake baker Kevin Sibley, founder of Mama’s Cupcakes, has created a highly tempting couture cupcake to celebrate the release of the movie Sex and the City 2.Kevin, National Cupcake Champion 2009, says The Cosmopolitan is the perfect accompaniment to the return of the SATC girls to the big screen on May 27.
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Flintshire firm Tasties has landed a deal to supply Tesco’s 13 stores in North Wales with a new range of sandwiches.
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Strong sandwich sales aid Greencore’s profits
Strong sandwich sales and consumer demand for meal deals has helped Greencore to up its operating profit by 31.8%, to €25.9m for the half year ended 26 March, 2010.
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Stephen Ort passes away
Stephen Ort, previously a regular contributor to British Baker, died recently after a long illness.
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Job retentionWarburtons is set to make no compulsory redundancies in the first phase of its £25m Bolton bakery redevelopment. Following the announcement in January that 121 jobs out of 234 on two bread lines at its Hereford Street bakery were at risk, Warburtons, alongside the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers ...
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Sixth outlet for Gail’sLondon-based artisan bakery and café Gail’s has announced it will open its sixth shop in Chiswick this week. It follows the opening of its Queens Park shop in March.Brook Food upgradeBakery equipment supplier Brook Food Processing is to move to a new 40,000sq ft facility this summer. ...
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No subscription riseThere was no increase in member subscriptions to the National Association of Master Bakers (NAMB), for the fourth year in a row.Plea for supportJoe Coleman, a young baker from Oxford, told NAMB conference delegates that he and other young bakers would welcome more support from the trade, including ...
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EC threat to six-packsBakery products sold by number, such as six-packs of rolls or muffins, are under threat, because proposed EC labelling legislation only makes provision for products sold by weight. The Federation of Bakers, backed by the FSA, is currently lobbying EC officials and MEPs to amend draft regulations ...
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Reduction responsibility
The environment may have been a notable absentee from the General Election campaign, but make no mistake it has not gone away. Companies picking their way through the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) know this only too well. This is yet another Government-sponsored initiative, along with the Climate Change ...
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Push on pastries
French bakery manufacturer Bridor has expanded its organic range with new additions in bread and Viennese pastries. Now featuring in the Pure Organic Range is a 140g baguettine; a 280g baguette; a 55g pavé; a 55g grain and cereal Purepavé; a 70g croissant; and a 75g pain au chocolat. All ...
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Mouthing off
"I am the Nigella Lawson of breast milk cookery. Why would you prefer to drink milk from a dirty cow over a clean, healthy woman? Breast milk is sweeter and slightly oily it actually tastes of goodness, whereas cow’s milk just tastes of chemicals"Abi Blake, 30, who sells breast ...
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Martins takes on Mellors
Manchester-based Martins Foods has purchased craft bakery Mellors out of administration, saving 50 jobs. Mellors Ltd went into administration on 22 April, and was bought by Martins the next day. Now trading as Martins Foods Southport, Mellors’ 25,000sq ft site in Slaidburn Crescent, Southport, specialises in "sticky buns", including ...
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Making whoopie
Macphie has developed a batter to help bakers tap into the latest craze of whoopie pies a cross between a cookie and a cake sandwich. The Mississippi Muffin/Cake range comes in a choice of plain, chocolate and toffee flavours. Simply make up the batter, pipe 2-inch rounds (approx 35g) ...
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Quantum leap for tills
EPOS Group has launched a new version of its Quantum till solution specifically for bakery shops. The new 1.1 version provides a way to take chip-and-pin card payments, manages in-store price promotions, and has full integration with CyBake Touch software to improve day-to-day shop management. Most bakery shops still only ...
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Keeping it local
A Ginsters pasty or slice, displayed in the chiller cabinet of a petrol station, may not immediately conjure up thoughts of the Cornish countryside carrots and potatoes plucked fresh from the soil or local cheese producers but perhaps it should.The West Country firm started making handmade pasties in ...