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Dessert bar arrives in UK
Burger King has opened its first standalone UK dessert bar, following the initial launch of the concept in Benidorm, Spain earlier this year. The outlet in London’s Westfield Shopping Centre is the second of its kind in Europe, and will offer a specialised menu, featuring existing products, including BK Fusions ...
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NewsMaple Leaf relaunches bagel brand
Maple Leaf Bakery UK has announced its New York Bakery Co brand is to be relaunched on 4 January, as the firm aims to drive growth in the bagel sector. The firm has reformulated its bagel recipe, to give it a more authentic New York look and taste, following extensive ...
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De Gustibus closes one ’high-rent’ London store
Award-winning artisan bakery De Gustibus is closing its shop in Marylebone after being stung by a 40% rent increase. Its two other London shops in St Paul’s and Borough Market will remain open, said founder Dan De Gustibus, who vowed to go "back to basics" and regroup the business. He ...
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Patisserie Valerie ramps up out-of-London expansion
Patisserie Valerie is continuing its expansion outside London with a new outlet in Salisbury, and more planned in the New Year.
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Indulgence targets £12m as it invests in new site
Premium dessert manufacturer Indulgence Patisserie has announced it will be investing £250,000 in a new site, and hopes to increase turnover to £12m over the next few years. The new site will be adjacent to the company’s existing premises in Clough Road, Colchester, where it has been since 1988. MD ...
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Brace’s to take over Warburtons’ Newport bakery
Welsh independent bakery Brace’s has announced it is to take over Warburtons’ Newport bakery in Rogerstone, with plans to safeguard many of the 114 jobs at risk.
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Europe opens door to enzyme labelling on pack
The Real Bread Campaign is calling for any new European food labelling law to flag up bakery enzymes as potential allergens. It follows ambiguous recommendations from the Council in charge of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer affairs (EPSCO), which approved draft regulation on ensuring that food labels carry key ...
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QED adds Italian style
Retail and catering refrigeration and modular display systems supplier Quality Equipment Distributors (QED) has launched an Italian-designed range of display counters, storage systems and accessories, called Deblasi.The firm said Deblasi was a high-end style of presentation for outlets wishing to upgrade tired facilities or for new venues looking for a ...
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Planning ahead
9-10 February 2011Soil Association Annual ConferenceManchester, UKwww.soilassociation.orgThis event is a public debate on how organic food and farming can provide a mechanism for the challenges confronting the food industry, including climate change, health inequalities and reshaping the economy. Panellists include the Rt Hon Caroline Spelman, secretary of state for Defra, ...
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Reporting in Upping the Environmental Ambition
Julian HuntDirector of communications, Food and Drink FederationWe have always believed that food producers who embraced the green agenda would discover that what was good for the environment was nearly always good for their bottom line as well. That was one of the rationales underpinning the Five-fold Environmental Ambition launched ...
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The cook & the baker
By Dean Brettschneider & Mark McDonough; Random House NZFollowing the rise of the so-called ’third wave’ of coffee shops those ultra-quality-conscious gourmet outlets set up by Aussies and New Zealanders largely in London is bakery about to see a similar trend? The word in NPD circles is that ...
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Appointments
Paul KitchenerPremier FoodsFood manufacturer Premier Foods has appointed Paul Kitchener to the group executive in the newly created role of group technical and innovation director. Kitchener, who will report to chief executive Robert Schofield, joins Premier Foods after six years at Burtons Biscuits where he was chief executive.In his new ...
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Bakers battle through the Arctic conditions
Bakeries in northern England and Scotland are continuing to struggle with the bad weather, while deliveries to the region have also been hit."We are quite used to dealing with snow up here, but the severity and duration of this recent blast has taken everyone by surprise," said Lewis McLean of ...
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Scottish body offers bakers free PR deal
Bakers north of the border are getting help to raise their profile with a free PR service.Scottish Bakers is encouraging its 250 bakery members to come up with news stories that it can send out to the local media. Chief executive Alan Clarke said: "The key message is about supporting ...
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Danes mix it up for bakers
Danish firm A/S Wodschow & Co has added two new Ergo Bear series hygienic mixers to its range, primarily for use in large-scale industrial bakeries.The new mixers have a larger capacity than the existing Ergos, said the firm.The Ergo 60 VL-4 and Ergo 100 VL-4 industrial mixers are available with ...
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?? Download of the week: Bakery Story, iPhone
We know what you’re all burning to do when you step away from the bakery at the end of a busy Christmas shift: run a virtual bakery on your iPhone. Yes, no longer do you have to switch off from the bakery world in your downtime, following the launch of ...
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Bring on the bran
Kampffmeyer Food Innovation launched a new type of bran at the HiE (Health Ingredients Europe) exhibition in Madrid last month. Softbran Don Minus is milder in taste and displays a significantly better mouthfeel than conventional bran products, but has the same dietary fibre value, according to the firm.Softbran Don Minus ...
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Traditionals with a twist christmas bread
This French loaf of enriched, buttery bread is sometimes said to be the "cake" that Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said of the starving French peasants "Let them eat cake". This may well be apocryphal, but it does illustrate the texture of brioche, which is half way between ...
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Real Bread Campaign launches initiatives for schoolchildren
The Real Bread Campaign (RBC) is going into schools in a bid to spread knowledge about its definition of ‘real bread’ to the next generation.
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My Career
Lancing, West SussexHow did you get into the baking industry?I was expelled from school and don’t have any qualifications; I had three children and did voluntary work and had part-time jobs as a cleaner and worked in a nursery while I looked after them. People loved my chocolate brownies so ...