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Say it with cake
Looking ahead to spring, although Easter will be flagged up as the main event in the bakery calendar, it’s important not to overlook another potential sales opportunity Mother’s Day. Falling on Sunday 3 April this year, Mother’s Day is traditionally a gift occasion and a time when your products ...
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Non-horror cake of the week
So what could the brief have been for this wedding cake, made to resemble a Welsh Spotted Sheep? So long as no laws were broken, then we’re fine with it. The cake was made by Louise Hill of www.lovetocake.co.uk, whose CV includes a stint making body parts for BBC1’s Holby ...
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Caught in the Web
An X-Box made into a toaster, which sold last week on Ebay for $265 (A)... aol.it/hN4ahOFor Valentine’s Day, what about this brilliantly clever heart cake? (B)... bit.ly/h5kWGeOne for the legions of Star Wars geeks out there, a Boba Fett cake (C)... bit.ly/fS7mpbGingerbread Tardis (D)... walyou.com/gingerbread-tardisRecipe of the week, for the ...
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A Smart way to check time
Employers can keep track of how hard their staff are working with the AccuTime Smart Card Time Recording System, which records what days an employee has worked, when they started and finished each day, if overtime was worked and their total salary. Accurate time sheets can be produced in seconds.Employees ...
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Classic combination
Why has nobody thought of it sooner? This is the first artisan bread and cheese emporium (at least that we know of), featuring a Paxton & Whitfield cheese concession.Ran Avidan, joint-managing director of Gail’s and its wholesale arm, The Bread Factory, had previously held talks with celebrated cheese shops La ...
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Lees Foods hit by rise in coconut prices
Lees Foods, the maker of Snowballs and Snowmallows, has warned that the rising price of coconut could hit its business. Chief executive Clive Miquel said the company had been hit by unprecedented commodity and packaging cost increases at the end of last year, with the price of coconut more than ...
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Report: Coconut prices see record highs
Coconut prices have hit record levels, with fears that there are further increases to come. Medium and fine desiccated coconut is now selling for up to £2,000/tonne against a historical average of £1,000/tonne. Prices have increased beyond levels thought possible, said Mark Setterfield at ingredients firm RM Curtis, prompting ...
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Number crunching
The number of people who have received a breadmaker as a present but rarely fire it up the most under-used Christmas gift gadget, according to a Mintel report
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Talking to shop customers
Jonathan Winchester, MD of mystery shopping and customer service specialist Shopper Anonymous asks what’s the difference between a ’chat’ and a ’rapport’ with customers?Have you ever listened to your staff chatting to customers? The next time you overhear such a conversation, ask yourself whether the staff member is just having ...
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Salty Dog takes Indian style
Crisp manufacturer Salty Dog has added another flavour to its snack range chicken tikka masala. The new variant is only the second meat-themed flavour to join the range, following the success of Salty Dog’s ham & wholegrain mustard pack. Co-founders David and Judy Willis undertook research in a number ...
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DSM finds softness solution
DSM Food Specialities has launched Panamore Soft a new enzymatic solution designed to improve the shelf-life of bread. It contains a patent-protected blend of enzymes, and claims to help keep breads stay fresher for longer.The firm said that, in tests, the solution produced enhanced initial softness, better sliceability and ...
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Maidaid evolves washers
Maidaid has made a number of changes to its dishwasher range. Firstly its new Evolution 2025ws pass-through dishwasher features the Salt ’n’ Go water softening system. The machine will operate continually, with no break while the softener is regenerating. The wash tank is 20 litres instead of the industry-standard 39 ...
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Flow motion
This type of hiatus on the roads (see picture box-out, right) was repeated all over the country in the last two weeks of 2010, with delivery vehicles commonly delayed or incapacitated because of snow. Anything that delays food transport vehicles has a knock-on effect down the chain. Bakeries do not ...
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Food in the news
The GM debate reared its head in The Telegraph around calls to rebrand GM. "We need a new language. Perhaps vaccination or inoculation is less scary for the public," said Bill Clark, who runs Broom’s Barn Research Centre, part of agricultural research centre Rothamsted Research. He argued that changing the ...
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Mickey Mouse magic
Kicking off the Unreal Cake Campaign for 2011 is Disney, which has developed a cake technology so clever that it will no doubt prompt your photo cake printer to wave the flag and commit digital suicide. Disney was recently awarded a patent for interactive cakes using small pico projectors. Or ...
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Wheat prices set to match previous records
UK wheat prices are poised to match levels last seen in 2007/08, as the latest delivered price hit £229.50 per tonne in the north west this week. It had reached its highest point for the current crop year before Christmas at £219. Prices stand at £220.50/tonne in East Anglia/London, £221.50/tonne ...
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Mouthing off
"I absolutely eat what I cook. You have to remember that when I was modelling, the girls Christy [Turlington], Naomi [Campbell], Cindy [Crawford] were all a size 10. We weren’t the size girls are now; we were slim, not skinny"Supermodel-turned-baker Lorraine Pascale, who is soon to open a ...
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Ones to watch
Twin-sumers", "Urbanomics", "Tweetonomics" if you’ve ever surveyed the reams of guff out there soothsaying the trends for the year ahead, then you will be forgiven for wishing painful death-by-cake-pop-stick-stabbing to the first marketing executive you come across. So it is in a spirit of great hypocrisy that we offer our ...
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Put paid to the pests
Now is the time when rodents will try to make their way indoors to find warm homes during the cold snap. And where better than a nice cosy bakery your bakery?Give them the smallest of opportunities and, before you know it, you have a monster of a problem. Rats ...
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In Short
Hovis’ Facebook ployHovis has launched its biggest ever social media campaign, via its Hovis Wholemeal Facebook page, to get consumers talking about bread. In other news, Caroline Jary, who has replaced Jon Goldstone as head of marketing for Hovis, confirmed that the brand’s earlier dispute with Tesco (BB, 22 October ...