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Bread price drop contributes to decrease in inflation
A record 2.6% drop in the price of bread and cereals contributed to the overall decrease in the price of food and non-alcoholic drinks, seen in the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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Booking open for ABST event
Booking is now open for the Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees annual conference, taking place again at Alton Towers from 10-12 June. The programme of events includes the AGM, followed by a Hawaii beach-themed Friday evening BBQ. Saturday is competition day, with judging and live competitions taking place in ...
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Bakers’ Fair is a spring success
Bakers’ Fair Spring was a great success on Sunday, with a huge numbers of visitors from across the country making the trip to Newbury Racecourse.
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Mrs Crimble’s boosts listings in major multiples
Gluten-free bakery brand Mrs Crimble’s has unveiled another string of listings in major retailers.
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Pork Farms strikes meal deal with Boots
Pork pie brand Pork Farms has struck a deal with Boots, which will help to further its growth in the chilled pastry category.
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Real Bread Campaign targets ’fresh’ descriptor
The Real Bread Campaign (RBC) has reopened the debate as to what consitutes ’freshly’ baked bread with the launch of its latest drive, which has seen bake-off breads come under fire. As previously reported by British Baker in December 2010, bakery retailers selling products that have previously been frozen could ...
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Seeded sector spurs the growth of brown breads
Sales of brown bread are on the up, thanks to the recent influx of seeded bread products, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. Total volume sales of brown/wholemeal (plant and in-store) increased by 6.1% in the 52 weeks to 20 March 2011, while overall volume sales of white ...
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Northumbrian lays out plans
The new owners of biscuit and cereal bar maker Northumbrian Fine Foods have promised sustained NPD following a management buy-out. MD of the Gateshead-based business David Sillars bought the business from Duke Street, rescheduled outstanding debts of around £650,000 owed to third parties and invested another £750,000, with help from ...
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All-round rise
As with last year’s annual price tracker survey, we have taken a look at the mean price of a selection of products, typically sold in a craft bakers, to gauge how prices have changed on average since March 2010.The average price of all items in craft bakeries bar ...
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NewsKrispy Kreme announces new store openings
Krispy Kreme is continuing with its plan to double store numbers in the UK, with three new outlets announced. A kiosk will open at the Liverpool ONE Shopping Centre on 15 April, and will be one of only a few Krispy Kreme kiosk operations outside London.
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Rack around the clock
David Hall, managing director of wholesale baker London Bread & Cake Company, says the key to baking quality goods is matching the right product to the right oven. He uses a Revorack, which cost about £17,000 including installation, and a smaller Sveba-Dahlen, costing about £5,000.Hall makes 10,000 bagels daily in ...
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Up, up and away
Rumours of the death of the high street punter’s spending power have been grossly exaggerated. Or they have if your barometer is the public’s unwillingness to part with those modern icons of disposable income: the daily latte and muffin.Sales in the coffee shop sector are predicted to grow by nearly ...
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Bad bakery science
Behold, a double whammy of cack-handed scientific reporting of breadmaking (yes, only two it was a quiet couple of weeks). Kicking things off was food journalist Alex Renton, who wrote in the Daily Mail: "Most popular sliced brands have preservatives and mould inhibitors, such as calcium propionate and ascorbic ...
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Bakers’ Fair to take place this weekend
Don’t forget to register for free for Bakers’ Fair Spring this Sunday.
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Woodhead Bakery hit by rising wheat prices
Scarborough-based Woodhead Bakery has gone into administration after being hit by inflation and rising wheat prices.The 74-year-old family bakery, which has 30 shops in the north east and also supplies Morrisons supermarkets, has been forced to make 30 of its 310 staff redundant, while administrator, the P&A Partnership, is keeping ...
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NewsCupcake firm Hummingbird Bakery to expand
Arguably one of the most well-known UK cupcake companies, The Hummingbird Bakery is to open its fourth outlet in June. Located in Frying Pan Alley in Spitalfields, London, it will form part of the firm’s plans for wider expansion, both across London, the UK, and internationally. As well as selling ...
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Production gets rolling at Dudley bakery site
David Wood Baking has started production at its most recently acquired site at Dudley in the West Midlands. The factory is the third site to be acquired by managing director David and Karen Wood, after they bought a Medway Foods site in Sheerness, Kent, in June 2008 and Peter Hunt’s ...
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Baps rapped!
The chattering classes of Henlow have been all a’flutter after taking offence at a baker’s cheeky choice of name for his bakery: Nice Baps. The "fuming" (if you read The Sun) residents of the Bedfordshire village displayed an acute sensitivity to double entendres when 12 people signed a petition, expressing ...
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A modern take on... brownie cookies
I was perfecting these delicious little cookies the week I launched my website and business in early 2009. They were so delicious, I put them on the menu. They have those amazing brownie qualities of a fudgey chocolate middle and a perfect crisp finish. The trick is in the timing ...
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Business Start-ups Ms Cupcake
It seems to be everyone’s dream to set up a small ’bake from home’ cake firm nowadays. That was my plan just one year ago, when I left a career in education and traded in my lesson plans for recipe cards. Little did I know, when I rolled up my ...