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Quiznos faces financial woes
American sandwich giant Quiznos is facing financial difficulties. The firm, which peaked at 29 outlets in the UK in 2008, closed its head office in Hove at the start of 2011 and is still seeking a new master franchisee.
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Creating a Wow2go factor
Enivronmentally friendly packaging firm wewow has launched a new presentation box for the food-to-go market. The firm developed its wow-box for the outside catering industry earlier this year, and has now introduced the first Wow2gobox as an eye-catching presentation for cupcakes.The box is produced from a single piece of sustainable ...
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Rioting hits bakery businesses across UK
Bakers have been hit by riots and looting in London and around the UK, with losses expected to cost millions.Greggs chief executive Ken McMeikan said it was monitoring the situation nationwide, closing shops where trouble was expected. In riots on Monday its Peckham shop was burned out and its Enfield ...
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Country Choice adds to options
Country Choice has added a couple of new additions to its portfolio. A cheese & onion lattice bake joins its line-up of savoury pastries. Made with a potato, cheese and onion filling, the lattice puff pastry lid is finished with a cheese crumb topping. Free associated A4 and A3 posters ...
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Alternative to vinyl gloves
Janitorial and personal protection equipment supplier Needlers has developed an alternative to vinyl gloves, which it said could save businesses 15-20% of their glove spend.According to the firm, vinyl gloves are used extensively across all sectors of the food manufacturing industry. However, Needlers says that with the rise in oil ...
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Ambitious streak
Amelia Nutting is no ordinary baker, and her shop in Wolverhampton, Shuga Budz, is no ordinary cake shop. Because in an era when nearly one million under-25s are unemployed, 21-year-old Amelia has been co-owner of her own successful business for four years.Last year, her talents were recognised at the Baking ...
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Artisanal aptitude
The recently formed School of Artisan Food has just seen its first batch of students complete an intensive year-long diploma in bread-baking. It transpires that among the first to graduate was a student who hailed from... yes, Chorleywood: the spiritual home of the industrial loaf. You could not make it ...
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Lidl rolls out in-store bakeries
Competition in the supermarket bakery sector is set to intensify as fast-growing discount chain Lidl rolls out in-store bakeries (ISBs) across the UK and Ireland.
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Logistics firm and Bakers Basco team up
Logistics firm Norbert Dentressangle has formed a partnership with asset recovery specialist, Bakers Basco to combat the loss of returnable transit packaging in the supply chain, including plastic trays and buckets, dollies and roll cages.
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Valeo Foods snaps up Irish biscuits
Some of Ireland’s best-known biscuit brands have been acquired by private equity-backed Valeo Foods after it agreed a deal to buy Jacob Fruitfield.Products such as Fig Rolls, Coconut Creams, Jacob’s Crac-kers and Tuc are included in the deal, taking Valeo’s annual turn-over to around £300m.Valeo was formed in 2010 and ...
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Renshaw takes brands professional
Following the introduction of the first Renshaw-branded products on to the consumer market, the firm has launched a number of the products in trade formats, available through major bakery wholesalers including Bako and BFP Wholesale.The new line includes: Renshaw Fruitilicious Fondants fondant icing containing real fruit concentrates in several ...
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ISA builds Pagoda range
ISA has launched a new refrigerated cabinet for the display of pastry, ice cream and chocolate. The Pagoda has been designed with concave glass and split level display areas, therefore offering excellent product visibility and versatile merchandising opportunities, according to the firm.There are four versions of the Pagoda, suitable for ...
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Greencore likely to secure Uniq buy
Greencore’s purchase of chilled prepared food group Uniq looks likely to go ahead at the end of September.It means Uniq Marks & Spencer’s largest sandwich supplier will be taken over by Irish rival Greencore, the world’s largest sandwich manufacturer, after the Uniq board unanimously recommended it should accept ...
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Rancilio tops up on Classe success
Italian espresso machine manufacturer Rancilio has announced a successor to its best-selling Classe 6 machine the Classe 7. Distributed in the UK by The Coffee Machine Company, the machine is available in automatic or semi-automatic models, and has a range of new features. It has ’soft touch’ buttons, and ...
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Richemont contests at fair
The prestigious Richemont Club’s competitions will for the first time be open to all, not just members, at Bakers’ Fair. Bakers’ Fair Autumn, on Sunday 2 October at the Bolton Arena, will host the competitions for the eighth year running. The event will also host a masterclass on cake pop-making ...
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Wrapped cupcakes for FMCG
Quorn Country Foods has launched a range of cupcakes onto the FMCG market this month, under the brand name Charlotte’s Cupcakes. Designed to transfer the popularity of the boutique cupcake market into the FMCG arena, the cupcakes are hand-decorated; a ’four-stage topping’, features a swirl of frosting, topped with vermicelli, ...
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Start-ups: hiring your first employees
Most start-up businesses begin with one person who has an idea. But the workload soon takes its toll and it becomes clear that, in order to grow, you need to hire staff.But where do you start? In my case, I invented the recipes, baked the cakes, decorated the cakes, sold ...
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Metcalfe offers flexibility
Metcalfe Catering is offering three processors under the MC range, which it claims can chop, purée, mix, liquidise, knead, grind and blend. The MC line includes a compact MC3 three-litre model, the more substantial MC5 five-litre model and the heavy-duty MC8 eight-litre model.All three models have stainless steel bowls, a ...
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Holding the fort
When Starbucks’ new UK MD Kris Engskov met staff at head office last month (July) he described the UK as "one of the most dynamic markets in the world for us".The 39-year-old former aide to Clinton has been brought in to "continue the momentum Starbucks has achieved in this region", ...
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Profit-hit Greggs takes heart from Iceland trial
Bakery chain Greggs said it was encouraged by results so far from a trial with retailer Iceland as it posted its interim results this week. The firm is five weeks into a 10-shop trial in Liverpool, where Iceland is selling its bake-at-home frozen sausage rolls in Greggs-branded four-packs.Chief executive Ken ...