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Get your BIA entries in today!
The late entry deadline for the Baking Industry Awards is today (Friday 27 May), so make sure you get your forms in.
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Greencore announces value growth for sandwiches
Greencore has grown its sandwich sales ahead of the market as its Convenience Foods division achieved ‘constant currency’ sales growth of 4.3% in the half year to 25 March 2011.
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Lees Foods sees pre-tax profit up
Lees Foods has broken through the £1m pre-tax profit barrier for the first time, thanks to production efficiencies and increased business in the foodservice sector.
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Bakery waste turned into alternative fuel source
Fats and oils from waste pies, sausages rolls and pastries are being extracted to make bio-diesel in a project that is expected to be rolled out across the UK.
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Hundreds of bakery jobs to go at Burton’s Foods
More than 200 jobs will go at Burton’s Foods’ Moreton site following the announcement it is to shut down the biscuit site.
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Revamped exhibition for the baking industry
British Baker’s publisher William Reed Business Media has announced that Bakery@Foodex is to be a new element of its well-established biennial Foodex show.
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One more week for BIA entries
Late entries for this year’s Baking Industry Awards are being allowed till the end of this week, so make sure you get them all in by Friday 27 May.
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Farmhouse Biscuits to grow production facility
Lancashire-based firm Farmhouse Biscuits plans to extend production with a new 29,000sq ft unit at the site of a former mill as sales of its gluten-free biscuits continue to grow.
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Food Partners strikes Urban Eat deal
Sandwich manufacturer and distributor Food Partners has teamed up with wholesaler Palmer and Harvey in a deal that will see Food Partners’ Urban Eat range of sandwiches, snacks and salads offered to around 8,000 independent convenience stores in the UK.
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FoB chairman addresses baking industry issues
"We are in a highly competitive business, where long-term volume and value growth is a challenge," said Federation of Bakers (FoB) chairman Mark Fairweather at the organisation’s annual lunch on 11 May. Fairweather, CEO of Allied Bakeries, spoke of the inflationary pressures fuelled by the rising price of commodities ...
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Allied Bakeries refutes supply claim
Allied Bakeries has rejected claims that supplies of Kingsmill bread will be affected in the West Midlands region, after distribution and transport workers at its West Bromwich site voted in favour of industrial action.
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Greggs scoops top British Sandwich Industry Award
Both large and small sandwich producers were honoured at the British Sandwich Industry Awards last Thursday (19 May), with Greggs taking home the top gong.
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S M Bayne takes on Fords shops
Fife-based bakery S M Bayne has added five shops to its estate, moving it into the top 30 in the BB75 table of bakery retailers, by store number.
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£1 pastries pack a punch
Country Choice has launched a new mini Cheese & Onion Roll, following the success of its mini sausage roll and mini pasty.The company suggests that retailers bake-off the pastries as normal, allow them to cool, then bag, label and display in the specially created countertop display unit. Shelf-life is 12 ...
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lHot pies and savouriesIt’s all eyes on the pies as we round up the latest products, consumer trends and format developments in this category focuslEpos systemsWhether you’re looking to enhance your sales data capture, improve stock management in shops, or simply get a nice shiny new till for the counter, ...
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EPOS able to give flour the brush-off
The Aures Group’s latest version of its integrated, vertical-concept EPOS equipment is the Galéo 200. Its fanless and vertical design makes it particularly suitable for the tough conditions in catering, takeaway and food outlets.The system features an Intel Atom Pineview dual-core D525 processor for a fanless IT system, highly resistant ...
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US maestro brings range across pond
A new range of cake making accessories from US cake superstar Duff Goldman are now available in the UK through RB Distribution. Founder of Baltimore, USA’s Charm City Cakes, Goldman also stars in a show called Ace of Cakes, shown in the UK on the Food Network, Sky channel 262.Goldman’s ...
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Cookie monster reveals all
AOL beat Stop The Week to an exclusive interview with Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster the baking industry’s number one ambassador of biscuits to pre-schoolers to clear up some of the myths behind the monster. Does he bake his own? Of course, and to a family recipe dating back ...
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Cake attack
The BBC’s Daily Politics show last week baked a cake to mark a year of the coalition government being in office. As John Prescott whizzed by the cameras, one reporter asked what the former deputy prime minister thought of it, only for Prezza to mutely shove his hand through the ...
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Firkins closes bakery but keeps shops
Firkins Bakery has closed its production bakery in Blacklake, West Bromwich, with more than 40 workers made redundant, but its 33 shops will stay open. Newbridge Bakery (Produc-tions), which owns the firm’s bakery, has been placed into liquidation. Firkins director Ian Bolderston said: "Unfortunately due to rising commodity and energy ...