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Tetley extends bakery range
Fourth-generation family bakery Grandma Wild’s has won the contract to produce a new range of biscuits under the Tetley Tea Folk brand. The Gaffer’s Biscuits, which are in the shape of Tetley’s famous cartoon character Gaffer, will initially retail through Nisa stores and follow the launch of Tetley scones in ...
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Get Sassie! brings out edible sugar glues
Get Sassie! has developed a new range of edible sugar glue products to help both professional and home bakers decorate cakes and biscuits.The 100% edible range includes SassieSap, an edible glue that can be applied up to 12 hours in advance to assemble gingerbread houses.The SassieStick edible glue stick is ...
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New Northamptonshire firm opens doors to business
Bakeaway, a new chilled pastry company, officially opened the doors of its £2m factory in Corby, Northamptonshire last week, bringing 40 jobs to the area.The company, which will be headed up by managing director Brian Homewood, also manufactures cookie dough and gingerbread dough. It has secured its first contract to ...
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Porridge snacks help out charity
A UK independent ethical beverage and snack supplier is now stocking Fairtrade porridge pots for the foodservice market and food-to-go retail outlets.Foodservice distributor Peros has now incorporated the One Porridge product range into its portfolio of healthy food and drinks. The product range will help to raise funds for The ...
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Country Choice designs cost-saving packs
Country Choice has launched a new range of packaging that promises a cost saving of 50% for caterers.The savoury goods tray and bag packaging range is easy to assemble and comes in three pack sizes, all of which use less material and improve product visibility. Each pack consists of a ...
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Creative with Cognac
Renowned Cognac producer Rémy Martin and its sister brand Cointreau are to undergo something of a reinvention. Keen for both to be seen as young and fashionable brands, the Rémy Cointreau Group formed through a merger in 1990 of the holding firms of the Hériard Dubreuil and Cointreau families ...
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Low-fat cream launch
Anchor has launched its first low-fat and cost-effective fresh cream product into the food retail market.The Arla Foods brand’s Anchor Real Dairy Cream is available in cases of six 300g-pots for a manufacturer’s RRP of £1.25 per product. It contains 30% less fat than standard double cream products and is ...
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Shoppers shun festive decorations
Retail bakers planning to get into the festive spirit by decking their shops with gaudy tinsel and putting their Best of Christmas CD on repeat actually run the risk of alienating shoppers.
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EC votes for sugar export quota rise
Proposals to increase out-of-quota exports of sugar by 700,000 tonnes, up to the World Trade Organisation limit of 1.35mts, have been voted through by the European Commission’s Management Committee.New licences for the additional export quota will be available from 1 December.They have also agreed proposals to enable operators to release ...
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Vernon joins enzymes line
AB Enzymes has added a new item to its baking enzymes range.The ABF Ingredients company has introduced VERNON GMS+ into the market, an enzymatic monoglyceride replacer that helps to create the same crumb texture profile and structure in yeast-raised baked goods, using a patent-pending amylolytic enzyme in combination with a ...
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Food in the news
While the extreme weather conditions seen last year contributed to soaring wheat prices, and imperilled food security in many parts of the world, it could be only a grim foretaste of what is to come, according to research compiled by Oxfam for the start of the Durban climate talks this ...
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NewsPortas puts high street revival on hold
Mary Portas’ report into how to revitalise the high street has been delayed as the TV star wades through thousands of comments submitted to her website.
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Sweet news
Although craft bakery retailers may look at the growth of café culture and the dominance of the coffee shop chains on the UK high street with negativity, it certainly is not all bad news. Sweet pastries, in particular, look to have benefited from the rising numbers of consumers buying a ...
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The path of yeast resistance
H G Wells called the line of least resis-tance ’the path of losers’, while American author Napoleon Hill said it makes all rivers and all men crooked.In today’s climate of recessionary strain, the supermarkets’ path of least resistance appears to be cutting costs, as evident in the current price wars. ...
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Report
New research has suggested that a generation of shoppers are baking and cooking more from scratch, aspire to shop ethically and waste less food.The study by IGD ShopperTrack research conducted a demographic breakdown comparing shoppers aged under 35 with those aged over 35. It found that more than half, 51%, ...
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Gordon PolsonDirector, Federation of BakersThe end of 2011 is fast approaching and it is time to reflect on a year where health pledges and food myths have played a prominent role.The Department of Health’s Public Health Responsibility Deal was officially launched on 15 March and the Federation of Bakers (FoB) ...
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Takeover spurs Unifine to target retail sector
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients (UK) has revealed it will target potential opportunities in the retail market next year.Following the acquisition of the business by Dawn Foods in June, Unifine said its eyes had been opened to consumer demand and it wanted to reach more custo-mers with its range ...
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Brace’s adds to staffBrace’s Bakery has created 26 new production jobs at its Rogerstone site. The new posts will increase its workforce to 77, with shift work increasing from 12 to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.TV visit to Rank HovisRank Hovis recently received a visit from Adam ...
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Crisps from breadSymington’s and Seabrook have teamed up to co-create and launch Bread Crisps into Morrisons. Targeted at the UK crisp sharing market, worth £638m, the new crisps contain one-third of the fat content compared to traditional potato varieties. A typical 25g serving is between 101 and 107 calories.Warburtons site ...
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Tunnock profits trebleAccording to accounts obtained from Companies House, Scottish tea cake and caramel wafer company Thomas Tunnock more than trebled its pre-tax profits to £3.41m in its last financial year, boosted by a one-off gain of £2.03m, the detail of which is confidential.Blaa appeal for PGIA national consultation process ...