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Aryzta announces sales boost
Speciality bakery company Aryzta has announced a 54% increase in revenues to €2.85bn for the year ended 31 July.
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Shoppers turn to brands
Shoppers are turning to brands – despite the weakened consumer confidence, according to research.
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Finsbury CEO outlines growth
The export of branded cakes has helped Finsbury Food Group to a 12.1% increase in sales in its cake division, as the exchange rate has benefited its Lightbody Europe (LBE) business.
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Kudos invests in agent to reduce sodium content
Raising agent manufacturer and supplier Kudos Blends has invested £750,000 to expand its milling and blending facility. The move will enable the firm to produce its zero-sodium potassium bicarbonate a direct replacement for sodium bicarbonate, which boasts the ability to reduce sodium content by 50%.Dinnie Jordan, director, told British Baker. ...
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NewsUnion calls for maximum temperature in bakeries
Bakeries are under pressure to do more to reduce workplace temperatures after the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) launched a campaign to get a maximum working temperature enshrined in UK legislation. As part of the Cool It! campaign, which is also supported by the TUC, the BFAWU has ...
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Blaa producer urges other bakers to seek PGI status
An Irish baker who is applying for EU protected status for one of his products has urged bakers across the UK and Ireland to follow suit. Dermot Walsh, co-owner of M&D Bakery in Waterford, is part of a group of bakers that have submitted an application for Protected Geographical Indication ...
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NewsPodcast: Sourcing sugar - Listen live to Napier Brown’s Peter Hough
In a new series of podcasts to discuss the issues impacting the bakery indusry, British Baker’s Patrick McGuigan speaks to Peter Hough, sugar sourcing director at sugar supplier Napier Brown.
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Finsbury maintains growth in cake sales
Finsbury Food Group has posted a 12.6% increase in group revenue in its preliminary results for the year to 2 July 2011, aided by the return to growth of its cake division.
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M&S tries out new ISB concept
Sixteen Marks & Spencer (M&S) stores are to benefit from new-style in-store bakeries (ISBs), as part of a £600m plan by chief executive Mark Bolland to revamp its stores, as the retailer aims to “catch up” with its competition.
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The National Minimum Wage rates will rise again on 1st October 2011
£6.08 per hour aged 21+£4.98 per hour aged 18-20£3.68 per hour aged 16-17£2.60 per hour apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year.
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Next issue: 7 October
lBakers’ Fair ReviewFollowing the industry’s gathering in Bolton on 2 October for our second Bakers’ Fair, we highlight the innovations and developments on show and announce competition winnerslCleaning & hygieneWith best practice in focus, we report on what is new in hygiene, health & safetylHealthy optionsWe look at which baked ...
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EU sugar quota abolition could push prices down
Bakers could benefit from falling sugar prices if the EU’s widely leaked plan to abolish sugar quotas is successful.The EU is expected to announce next month that it proposes to scrap the current system of production quotas and guaranteed minimum prices for sugar far-mers by September 2016. News agency Reuters ...
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Start-ups: Time to get active online
By Mellissa Morgan, aka Ms Cupcake.I went from baking a few cakes at home to owning my own shop within a year. When talking to people about the start of my business they often ask, "How did you achieve success in such a short period of time?" I tell people ...
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Bakery union makes claims against Park Cakes
The Bakers Food and Workers Union (BFAWU) has claimed that Park Cake Bakeries is attempting to bypass new legislation covering agency workers and has asked local MPs for their support.
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NewsArden creates exclusive item for Waitrose
Continental bakery distributor Arden Fine Foods has developed a new Italian brand exclusively for Waitrose, with four new biscuit lines hitting the retailer’s shelves this month. The new Arden & Amici brand, which includes cantuccini, biscotti and soft amaretti biscuits, could be extended to other products, such as panettone and ...
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Online firm offers artisan flour range
Online supplier Bakerybits.co.uk has launched an extensive new range of artisan stoneground flours, as part of its aim to expand its offering of hard-to-find ingredients sought by independent and domestic artisan bakers.The new line has been specially selected from several acclaimed mills across the UK, including Redbournbury Mill, Foster’s Mill, ...
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Bolton awaits bakers’ visit
B olton arena will play host to the 5th annual Bakers’ Fair this autumn, which takes place on Sunday 2 October. The free-to-attend event, sponsored by Norbake, will be coupled with Butchers’ Fair as it was at the spring fair in April, giving great opportunities to those companies that work ...
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Welsh bakery goes to MBI
The management team of Berwyn Bakery has formed a new company, The Cake Crew, to purchase the assets of the bakery, saving around 70 jobs, after it was placed into administration earlier this month.Berwyn Bakery, which was the second-largest employer in the town of Bala, Gwynedd in North Wales, had ...
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Banette concept hits the UK
An iconic French artisan bakery concept, ’Banette’, is now available to the UK for the first time, exclusively through FWP Matthews. Banette Flour is milled by FWP in the Cotswolds under licence from Banette International. "Using the unique registered process ’Banette Fermentation Primeur’, an original artisan baguette can be created," ...
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Schultz: Be bold or be left behind
Those companies that are not bold in the face of the global economic crisis and don’t have the courage to take risks, may be left behind, according to Starbucks chairman, president and chief executive Howard Schultz.