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Urban Eat in social media drive
Sandwich brand Urban Eat plans to launch a new social media campaign targeting consumers via Twitter, Facebook and a new website.
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NFU: wheat harvest not as bad as feared
This year’s wheat harvest has not been as bad as first feared, despite this year’s extremely dry weather, according to results of an NFU members’ survey.
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Study shows shoppers buying less
Shoppers are making more trips to supermarkets, but buying less to offset the soaring costs of food and other grocery items, according to a new study.
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Waitrose profits hit by investment and value focus
Waitrose, the supermarket retailer owned by the John Lewis partnership, saw like-for-like sales grow by 4% in the half-year ended 30 July 2011.
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The Bakehouse revamps to become Flour & Bean
Norfolk craft bakery chain The Bakehouse is rebranding its shops as Flour & Bean, with a greater focus on freshly prepared coffee and food, in an effort to attract younger customers. The company has already refurbished four of its 14 shops under the new bakery and coffee shop brand, with ...
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NewsNational Cupcake Week hits the internet
National Cupcake Week is now in full swing after getting off to a bang when it was featured on television and radio.
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Inflation and unemployment figures up
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose again in the second quarter of the year, to a total of 2.51 million, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
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NewsTetley moves into bakery market
Tetley is to branch out into the world of bakery with the launch of Tetley Tea Folk Scones this week.
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High winds crush cars at Bako Northern
Bakery wholesaler Bako Northern bore the brunt of the winds yesterday when a roof collapsed on 15 cars as storms battered parts of the UK.
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ABF: “Earnings will be in line.”
Associated British Foods (ABF) – the parent company of Allied Bakeries and AB Mauri – has reported it is on track to turn out profits in line with earlier predictions.
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Scottish Bakers offers tax relief service to members
An innovative new scheme has seen bakers in Scotland receive £165,000-worth of tax relief for their research & development (R&D) work. Three businesses have benefited from a government initiative thanks to working with Scottish Bakers, including Brownings the Bakers in Kilmarnock and Maclean’s Highland Bakery. Scottish Bakers has teamed up ...
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Speakers line up for BSB
The British Society of Baking’s (BSB) annual autumn conference will play host to a series of talks including: ’50 years of the Chorleywood Bread Process’, by BakeTran director Stan Cauvain; ’High speed mixing machines’, by Steve Philpott of Baker Perkins; and ’Some facts on acrylamide’ by Andrew Curtis, scientific & ...
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High street chains criticised in Irresponsibility Deal report
Companies including Subway, Costa and Samworth Brothers, have been slammed for not signing up to elements of the government’s public health Responsibility Deal in a new report from the Children’s Food Campaign. Subway and Costa were both criticised in the report called The Irresponsibility Deal for not signing up to ...
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Make sure you don’t miss fair day
Don’t forget to register to attend Bakers’ Fair Autumn. The free-to-attend event will take place at Bolton Arena on Sunday 2 October.
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Organic retailers make plans for store offensive
After suffering several years of sales decline, the organic bakery sector received some much-needed good news last month after upmarket food retailers Daylesford Organic and Planet Organic revealed plans to open dozens of new stores. Daylesford CEO Jamie Mitchell said he plans to launch a chain of six to 10 ...
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In-store action
While in-store bakeries are seeing sweet success from pastries and confectionery, bread continues to be a drag on the category, losing sales to wrapped bread. This is all the more baffling when consumers claim to value freshness as one of their top purchasing decisions.Lantmännen Unibake/Bakehouse, conducted in-depth research into current ...
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Brits’ love affair with pies still going strong
Research from Mintel suggests there are some indulgences the British public is not willing to give up, even during an economic downturn, namely pies and pasties. Mintel’s 2010 Life of Pie report showed that over 84% of people had eaten a pie in the previous 12 months, providing strong optimism ...
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Green agenda
When it comes to refrigeration for the high street baker or retail food-to-go operator, there is one word that is at the tip of everyone’s tongues and that is ’sustainability’.With energy prices seemingly stuck in a continual ascent, operators need their refrigeration to be more efficient in terms of ...
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It’s all in the mixer
I t could be said that the smaller bakery revolves around its mixer, dire pun though that is. Apart from the oven, the mixer is probably the piece of equipment most vital to day-to-day production. Strange, then, that it is a piece of equipment that the modern age has passed ...