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CSM adds Classic Cakes to its business portfolio
CSM has acquired Classic Cakes, which produces a range of premium sweet bakery products, servicing the foodservice and retail markets.
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High fuel prices force redundancy at bakery
Rising fuel prices have forced Scottish craft bakery Tower Bakery to make one of its bakers redundant for the first time in its 30-year history.
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University looks to rival the coffee chains
The University of Manchester plans to take on the big coffee chains by raising awareness of its cafés and eateries.
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NewsSign up for National Doughnut Week 2011
Craft bakers are being urged to lend their support to the 20th National Doughnut Week from 7-14 May.
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Fosters partners Deliciouslyorkshire in online training
Barnsley-based Fosters Bakery has teamed up with regional food group Deliciouslyorkshire to launch a new online staff training campaign.
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Online venture looks for bakery participation
A new online venture is looking for small independent artisan bakeries to put their products on the virtual shelves of its Love Your Larder (LYL) website.
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Mixed views on impact of Royal Wedding
The Royal Wedding is expected to hit retail bakers in the pocket with some set to close their shops for the day, and those that do open predicting a drop in takings. Taking place on Friday, 29 April, at 11am, the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is expected ...
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NewsBB75 2011
BB75 is the annual authoritative tracker of companies that sell baked products as the primary element of their food offering in a retail, food-to-go or eat-in format, benchmarked by the number of outlets operated. This exclusive report monitors the fortunes of all specialist retailers of bakery products on an annual ...
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Bakers wanted for Cupcake Camp fundraiser
Bakers on the south coast are being invited to a Cupcake Camp to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Coffee chain goes to work on food offering
Coffee Republic is revamping its food range as it rolls out a modern lighter interior design across its shops. The company, which has 130 stores in the UK, is trialling new breakfast and sandwich lines as it looks to bring the quality of its food range in line with its ...
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New US guidelines push higher whole grain consumption
Upping consumers’ intake of whole grains is a key feature of the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, jointly published by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
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Allied Bakeries launches wildlife conservation promotion
Allied Bakeries has announced a new partnership with Conservation Grade, a nature-friendly farming scheme.
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NewsFosters issues challenge to would-be apprentices
Aspiring bakers will get to compete in an Apprentice-style contest for the chance to bag paid training with Fosters Bakery in Barnsley. The challenge, dubbed ’The Great Apprenticeship Bake-Off’, will invite a shortlist of candidates to its factory for an induction to bakery and training on 11 February. The day ...
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United Biscuits hitting zero-waste targets
United Biscuits (UB) has announced that four of its 14 UK sites have hit its zero-waste-to-landfill target.
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Euphorium reveals growth strategy
North London-based Euphorium Bakery has revealed ambitious expansion plans, both nationwide and internationally. Operations director Andrew Green told British Baker that although the firm remains an artisan bakery in its production methods and thinking, he concedes that it has become a chain, and the business has plans to expand further. ...
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Rising costs fail to push up UK bread prices in 2010
Despite rocketing input costs in the second half of last year, the retail price of a loaf of bread in the UK actually fell in 2010 compared to 2009, according to new data from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The research on world bread prices, which is part of the ...
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Real Good Food reports healthy 2010 profits
Strong pre-Christmas sales negated the effects of severe winter weather on the Real Good Food Company’s profits to 31 December 2010.
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Real bread option urged
Community supported bakeries could provide a solution to shortages of ’real’ bread across large swathes of the country, according to the Real Bread Campaign. The campaign, which promotes bread made using slow fermentation times and without additives, has published a 140-page handbook, called Knead to Know The Real Bread ...
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White bread sales dip as healthy lines find favour
White bread sales dipped last year as growing numbers of shoppers embraced brown and healthy loaves.
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Question mark over Burton’s site
Council and union bosses hope to convince Burton’s Foods to keep its Moreton factory open. A planned meeting this week with the biscuit manufacturer aims to challenge Burton’s decision to close the Wirral site, with the loss of 342 jobs. The factory which makes Cadbury’s chocolate biscuits under licence, ...