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Brand firm offers secret for healthier donuts
A method for making healthier-option baked donuts has been made available for licensing through brand consultancy Intangible Business. According to the firm, the manufacturing process would enable bakeries and coffee shops, for example, to make a donut that was less than half the fat of a full-fat fried donut. Blind ...
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High street bakers squeezed as consumers turn to lunchboxes
The return of the adult lunchbox and escalating raw material costs could hit high street bakers like Greggs for as long as the consumer downturn continues, analysts at Oriel Securities have warned.
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Breakfast trade boosts Starbucks UK sales
Starbucks is looking to boost its sweet and savoury offering after its new breakfast range swelled year-on-year morning sales in the UK by 50% in June.
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Red tape places burden on use of palm oil logo
Fats distributors say red tape could prevent their sustainable palm oil products from carrying a new certification logo. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s (RSPO) logo can only be used by its members on products that contain palm-derived ingredients sourced in compliance with RSPO standards. Although the design was released ...
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Motorway service firm to trial Pasty Presto outlets
Pasty Presto is to up its outlet numbers, as motorway service station area Roadchef has announced it is to trial a franchise of the bakery café chain, with a view to further rolling out the brand across its estate. Roadchef will be running the trial at three of its sites: ...
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NHS urged to look into gluten-free prescriptions
Gluten-free bakeries are calling on the NHS to investigate charges added to prescription gluten-free bread by whole-salers, after a spate of media reports criticised the cost of such products to taxpayers. Wholesalers have been known to charge pharmacies anywhere between £20-60 per prescription because they say gluten-free products qualify as ...
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Next issue: 12 August
l High-fibre, low-Gi and seeded breadsPerceived healthier products continue to drive the strongest sales growth in the bread category. Ingredients suppliers, bakers, millers and retailers tell us exactly where the best opportunities are to develop the category and attract new consumersl BB75 updateAs we pass the ...
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Look ahead to SIAB 2013
SIAB exhibition, the Italian bakery, machinery and confectionery show will take place in Verona in May 2013. Supported by Fippa, the Italian Federation of Bakers, the show will major on international innovation, while attendees will have the opportunity to discuss raw material prices and their impact on the baking industry.Fippa, ...
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Walkers adds fiery Sensations
Walkers’ Sensations range of crisps has undergone a packaging redesign, with a new flavour also added to its portfolio.Mexican Fiery Sweet Chipotle joins the line-up, which includes flavours such as Thai Sweet Chilli. The new pack design aims to communicate the exotic flavours of the crisps with large colourful images ...
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Occupational health advisors
There are many ways an occupational health advisor can assist your business, such as helping you reduce short-term sickness absence levels. But what else can they do and how much might their services cost?Occupational health is "the study of the working environment on human health". Any individual who practices as ...
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Calling all young bakers
The search is back on for the UK’s top young talent.Young Baker of the Year is part of a series that celebrates the working heroes of Great Britain. This year BBC3 is on the lookout for a top young baker aged 16-25. This is an opportunity for people other than ...
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Greener system from Allen
Coding and marking equipment manufacturer Allen Coding Systems has introduced a ’greener’ labelling system. Diagraph’s Platinum E Series All Electric Labelling System claims to use 50% less energy than other pneumatic models. UK sales and OEM manager Steve Ryan said it offers all the performance and features of its earlier ...
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’Allo ’Allo! star to attend fair
Bakers’ Fair Autumn, taking place on Sunday 2 October at the Bolton Arena, promises to be even bigger and better than last year.Open from 9.30am-4pm, the free-to-attend event will feature talks and demonstrations on The Stage, as well as the judging of The Richemont Club of Great Britain’s eighth national ...
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Garrlins’ decks appeal
Foodservice equipment supplier Garrlins has added the mini twin deck Mazzoni CD5050 pizza oven to its range.The CD5050 has fire brick bake decks, so pizzas can be cooked both evenly and quickly. Operating from a 6kw (30A) supply, the CD5050 has a cooking chamber measuring 50cm x 50cm and is ...
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Aures Group creates slim EPoS screen
Till management and EPoS systems firm Aures Group has launched the new W-Touch "all-in-one" touchscreen equipment. It features a slimline, fanless and splash-proof design, and has been developed predominantly for wall-mounted till applications.The W-Touch, part of the Posligne range, is an integrated 15-inch touchscreen system, and is equipped with an ...
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Baking Industry Awards finalists revealed
British Baker is delighted to announce all 31 finalists for the Baking Industry Awards 2011.
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More students enrol on college bakery courses
Bakery colleges report that increasing numbers of students are signing up for courses this year due partly to increased publicity and a raft of bakery-related TV programmes. University College Birmingham said 80 students had been offered a place on the first-year bakery course compared to last year, when 92 students ...
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Cadbury brings cake bar Boost
Cadbury Boost is now available in a cake bar format, alongside a new Turkish variant. The Boost cake bar consists of a layer of chocolate sponge topped with a chocolate and biscuit filling, surrounded by caramel and covered in Cadbury milk chocolate.The launch is expected to bring new consumers into ...
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Breakfast filling for Bara line
Ginsters is building on its Cornish Bara range with the introduction of the All Day Breakfast Bara.Tapping into consumer demand for a variety of food-to-go breakfast options, the new Bara combines fresh British pork sausage with sweetcure smoked bacon and chopped egg in a rich tomato sauce wrapped in a ...
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Baroness urges policy mix to tackle obesity
A House of Lords committee, chaired by Baroness Neuberger, has been tasked with finding ways to reduce obesity.The Baroness said changing the behaviour of a population was likely to take time, perhaps a generation or more, and she called on the government to be braver about using both incentives and ...