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Expanding repertoire
New dough balls please!" Squint your brains and envision the newly gluten-free dieter, Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic, masterfully return-serving a plate of bready starters in a Pizza Express: there you have the (slightly silly) metaphorical summation of another year in which the gluten-free sector aced it.Or at least that’s what ...
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Flexible working
When a statutory flexible working request is granted, it becomes a permanent change to the employee’s contract. What would happen if, sometime later, you needed to change it could the arrangement be revoked? The statutory right to request a flexible working arrangement was first introduced by the Employment Act 2002. ...
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What is mutuality of obligation?
QCan you explain what the term ’mutuality of obligation’ means and how it applies to contracts of employment?AMutuality of obligation is one of the factors the tribunal will look at when deciding whether or not an individual works under a ’contract of service’ in other words, via a contract ...
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Staying power
UK eating habits are ever-changing due to tightening purse strings and hectic schedules, with consumers driven more towards convenience food. Popular trends such as red velvet cupcakes and French macarons, have also affected what customers purchase.Despite this, the muffin has taken its place as a popular and profit-making snack ...
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Seed pricing
Pine nuts: Although we are faced by the prospect of a far better supply of raw material from an improved Chinese, Russian and South Korean supply base this new season, the lower pricing has clearly triggered some higher and increased levels of industry and consumer demand which have lifted ...
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Report
While the wholesale price of skimmed milk powder, mild and mature cheddar have remained steady since October, the price of unsalted butter has fallen significantly since last month, according to the latest wholesale dairy report by Dairy Co.Data derived from traders and milk processors between 21 and 24 November showed ...
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In Short
NAMB 125th banquetThe National Association of Master Bakers will host its 125th Anniversary Banquet on 3 November 2012 at The Guildhall, London. For details, call 01920 468061 or visit www.masterbakers.co.uk.Scots’ 40 GroupIndustry body Scottish Bakers has re-established its 40 Group, which is open to all managers and directors in the ...
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FDF’s health focusThe Food and Drink Federation has said it is continuing to reduce accident numbers in food manufacturing, but that there must be more of a focus on occupational ill health within the bakery sector. Partnering with the Health & Safety Executive and trade union groups, it has launched ...
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Macphie profits downScottish food ingredients group Macphie saw its operating profit fall by almost a third, due to an increase in raw material and distribution costs despite an increase in turnover. The company has revealed that its operating profit for the year to March 2011 was £1.4m, down from ...
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NewsBaker of the Year secures Dubai business
Northern Ireland artisan bakery Ditty’s has secured its first export deal in the Middle East, as global interest in the business continues to grow. The Castledawson bakery, run by last year’s Baking Industry Awards’ Baker of the Year Robert Ditty, was initially asked to develop a new line of alcohol-free mince pies to Dubai’s Pan Euro Foods MENA.
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Bakery retailers buck employment trends
UK figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown the number of people out of work has increased by 128,000 in a three-month period from August to October.
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Pasty championships planned at Eden Project
The Eden Project in Cornwall is to host the first-ever World Pasty Championship. It will take place at the Eden Bakery, between the famous Biomes, on Saturday 3 March 2012.
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FDF sets out 10-year growth plan with government
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is working in tandem with the government to achieve 20% growth in the food and drink manufacturing industry by 2020.
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Bakery achieves Xmas export deal
From stollen to lebkuchen, Germans have long had a love of festive bakery treats, but it seems they have now developed a taste for British Christmas cake, thanks to one Hertfordshire bakery.
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Allied Bakeries strike averted
A strike threat at the Allied Bakeries plant at Milton, north of Glasgow, has been averted.
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Proper Maid creates Christmas Dinner Cake
A Huddersfield cake supplier has conjured up a Christmas Dinner Cake, made from all the trimmings, minus the turkey.
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Inflation falls as food prices drop
The falling cost of food, boosted by a supermarket price war, contributed to a small fall in inflation, statistics revealed yesterday.
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Costa: on track for year, LFLs up 3.8%
Costa Coffee, the café chain owned by leisure group Whitbread, this morning said like-for-like sales had increased by 3.8% for the brand in the 13 weeks to 1 December 2011.
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NewsHigh street in critical condition, says Portas
Retail guru Mary Portas has reiterated claims that the rise of supermarkets has put high street bakeries into decline and warned the high street is in a critical condition. The Portas Review, officially published today (Tuesday), reprinted figures from the 2008 Competition Commission, which found that the number of bakeries has declined from around 25,000 in 1950 to around 8,000 by 2000. In her introduction to the widely-anticipated report she said: “The days of a high street populated by independent butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers are, except in the most exceptional circumstances, over.”
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Macphie: sales up, profits fall due to increased costs
Macphie, the Scottish foods ingredient group, saw its operating profit fall by almost a third because of an increase in raw material and distribution costs - despite an increase in turnover.