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Mini Heston in Waitrose TV ad
Waitrose has launched a TV advertising campaign featuring a young Heston Blumenthal eating the company’s latest hot cross bun product.
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Kudos to raise salt awareness in Parliament
Representatives from Kudos Blends will visit the House of Commons next week to talk about the importance of salt reduction within the bakery industry.
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Hot food tax set to hit bakeries
Standard rate tax looks set to be applied to all hot takeaway food, such as pasties and pies, as part of a government drive to close loopholes in the VAT system.
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Fresh Kitchen: learning experience for Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s has confirmed it has closed its concept food shop Fresh Kitchen in London, following a year-long trial.
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WiFi rolled out across Greggs
Greggs is to install wireless broadband access across its 1,571 stores across the UK.
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Rise in ‘real bread’ bakery businesses
The Real Bread Campaign has claimed in a recent survey that a surge of people have started up their own small bakery businesses in the last year.
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Investment provides sales boost for Sainsbury’s
An £85m investment in fresh food helped Sainbury’s sales improve by 4.6% in its fourth quarter, the supermarket retailer revealed this morning.
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Mixed Budget for food businesses
Sunday Trading laws are to be relaxed over the Olympics and there will be a reduction in corporation tax – some of the measures announced by George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in today’s Budget.
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Card payments on the up, study reveals
Customers expect to pay on card at independent bakeries, despite a drop in spend, according to new research.
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Adults see minimum wage increased
New National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates have been announced by the government, after it accepted recommendations from the independent Low Pay Commission (LPC).
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Premier Foods faces fire sale of assets, analyst claims
Premier Foods could be forced into disposing of assets in “near fire-sale conditions”, a leading City analyst has claimed.
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Boparan to offload Christmas pudding business
Boparan Holdings has offered to sell a Christmas pudding business in a bid to overcome competition concerns on its proposed acquisition of Brookes Avana from Premier Foods.
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NewsReal Good Food Co on track to double size of business
The Real Good Food Company, the bakery and ingredients group, has said it is well on track to double the size of its business in the next three years.
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NewsPremier Foods downgrades bread division by £282m
Premier Foods, the food conglomerate behind Hovis, has been forced to write down the value of its bread division by £282m, following a whopping 90.4% slump in profits.
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Tesco’s "most difficult period", warns analyst
Tesco is facing its “most difficult period in history”, following Richard Brasher’s decision to leave his role in July, according to one analyst.
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Bakels’ Chia corners health conscious
Bakery ingredients supplier Bakels has launched a new bread concentrate, helping bakers to further reach health-conscious consumers.
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Herbert brothers show what they’ve got
Tom and Henry Herbert, the faces of National Craft Bakers’ Week 2012, are challenging UK bakers to "show them what they’ve got".
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Video: Behind BB75 Ken McMeikan
Greggs’ chief executive Ken McMeikan spoke exclusively to British Baker at the first BB75 Lunch about the company’s new shop opening programme, the expanding coffee market and coming away from the event with pockets full of business cards.
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Online chocolate masterclass available to bakers
Craft bakers are being urged to register for a live and interactive online chocolate masterclass.
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NewsFarmhouse pudding set to break world record
Lancashire-based Farmhouse Fare will be attempting to make the world’s largest sticky toffee pudding this Saturday (17 March).