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Video: Unifine focuses on NPD following acquisition
Ingredients manufacturer Unifine invited British Baker to its Ingredients in Action workshop at Squires Kitchen.
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Greencore outlines cake woes
Greencore, the Irish producer of convenience foods, has been hit by a ‘significant’ higher level of inflation in its cake and dessert business.
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Need a Cake warns small firms of discount offers
A Reading bakery has spoken out about its involvement with online discount voucher website Groupon, warning other small businesses to steer clear of such enticing promotional offers.
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Fastest-growing sales for Patisserie Valerie
Patisserie Valerie is celebrating a successful year after being named on the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 List.
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Retail sales weakest since May
Retail sales grew by just 0.7% last month, the weakest growth since May, as shoppers turned their back on pre-Christmas discounting.
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Food and grocery to grow to £184bn
The food and grocery market is expected to expand by 20% to £184bn in the next five years, driven largely by the rise of discounters, a new study has revealed today.
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Spotlight on community bakeries in BBC2 series
Members of the Real Bread Campaign will appear on a new BBC2 series tonight highlighting the importance of Community Supported Bakeries (CSB).
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United Biscuits (UBUK) will be focusing on extending its biscuit and cake offering, alongside consumer promotions, to further strengthen its position in the snacking market for 2012.
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Huffkins opens new Cotswold store
A family-owned bakery has opened up a new site on Cheltenham’s Promenade
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Greencore rejects takeover talks
Greencore, the Dublin-based producer of sandwiches, has rejected a takeover approach, it announced this morning.
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Healthy bites added to line
Genesis Distributors has added two new products to its range of healthy cookies, suitable for the food-to-go market.The Voortman grab ’n’ go two-cookie packs are now available in No Added Sugar Chocolate Chip and No Added Sugar Oatmeal varieties. The products use a sugar substitute called Maltitol, which offers 75-90% ...
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Co-operative adopts ATM voucher deal
The Co-operative is boosting bakery sales by offering money-off vouchers through its ATM cash machines a strategy that could soon be adopted by other retailers.Customers using any of The Co-operative Bank’s cash machines located in Co-operative food stores receive a voucher on the back of their receipt with 40p ...
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Taura uses ancient grains
Taura Natural Ingredients has introduced a range of ingredients combining ancient grains and 100% pure concentrated fruit and vegetables.The Ultra Rapid Concentrated (URC) Inclusions range uses grains such as quinoa, amaranth and chia, alongside fruit and vegetable accompaniments. It is suitable for applications in the snack, bakery, breakfast cereal and ...
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Chancellor’s plans meet with bakers’ approval
The government has outlined a new set of measures aimed at improving the UK economy, including a £40bn plan for credit-easing that would allow small businesses to borrow cash.In his autumn statement Chancellor George Osborne also said anyone investing up to £100,000 in a start-up business from April 2012 ...
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Baby Sponges born
Sponge Cakes will be launching a new range of individually baked bite-sized cakes in 2012 for the food-to-go market.The Baby Sponge range offers 10 classic flavours, including chocolate, Victoria, lemon, coffee, Bakewell, apple crumble, chocolate orange and sticky toffee pudding. A special product will also be alternated every three months.The ...
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Irish bakers hit back at proposed VAT change
Irish bakeries have hit out at plans to change VAT rules so that products including bagels, speciality breads and croissants would be liable to tax at 13.5%.The Revenue decided last month that many bakery products, which had previously been zero-rated, were so far-removed from standard loaves of bread that they ...
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Quiet deliveries help baked goods stay fresh
The government has pledged to review the rules on night-time deliveries following several successful ‘quiet delivery’ pilots.
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Government funds set to benefit bakery training
Bakery companies will be key beneficiaries of a new £1.7m government-funded scheme to improve food sector skills, including the creation of a new food engineering degree.A number of leading bakery companies worked closely with Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, and the National Skills Academy to win the ...
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Emission zone hits London bakery firms
Bakers and millers in the London area are having to pay substantially more for transporting goods, due to widening of the Transport for London, Low Emission Zones. Also, from January 2012, "larger vans, lorries, and heavy or diesel specialist vehicles" will be affected for the first time.Large firms have been ...
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Sussex sees new bakery
The Danish baker who founded Bread Etcetera and managed the Celtic Bakers has set up a new wholesale bakery near Chichester in West Sussex, supplying a range of artisan breads and pastries.Troels Bendix set up the Hungry Guest Bakery in August this year and has since opened a café and ...