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Reporting in Can you afford to ignore raw material price rises?
Nick HarrisManaging director, BFP WholesaleHas a period of raw material price stability come to an end? It would certainly appear so if the pages of this magazine are to be believed. And all of the recent comments regarding the Eastern Europe harvests on television and in the press are suggesting ...
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Planning ahead
Cupcake Camp London31 October 2010, 2pm - 5pmProud Galleries, CamdenEmail: cupcakecamplondon@gmail.comAn inaugural event for London, Cupcake Camp 2010 is described as a gathering of cupcake lovers to raise money for a good cause in this case the North London Hospice.Bakers can get involved in different ways baking a ...
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Appointments
Heather Hutchison Bako Northern & ScotlandHeather Hutchison is Bako Northern & Scotland’s new business development manager for Scotland, working alongside Ian Dawson and covering the ’central belt’ area of Scotland.Hutchison’s remit is to work with the firm’s Scottish customer base to "develop refreshing new ideas with the objective of increasing ...
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Trade snapshot: Edible art
Georgi Gyton visits an unusual food-inspired eventFoodies gathered at The Brickhouse, in Brick Lane, London on Saturday 25 September, for an exhibition of edible art, live talks, and demonstrations, organised by the Experimental Food Society.Among the exhibits was a life-size suckling pig cake by cake artist Michelle Wibowo; a cake ...
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Finsbury looks to claw back decline in cake sales
Finsbury Food Group is banking on a return to growth for premium cakes as it tries to bounce back from a tough financial year in which sales fell for the first time in the company’s history.The group’s cake operation, which accounts for 74% of revenue and includes Memory Lane and ...
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Brace’s puts pressure on Warburtons to sell bakery
Warburtons is under pressure to sell rather than close its Newport bakery after Brace’s announced publicly that it was keen to buy the site and called for union and Welsh Assembly Government support. At the end of September, Warburtons announced a proposal to close the bakery in South Wales, which ...
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Silicon shapes for bakery
Mitchell & Cooper is offering a new range of silicon moulds to those looking to create interestingly shaped bakery products. The Silikomart Professional moulds come in a range of shapes from traditional muffin cases to hearts, pyramids and volcanoes.According to the firm, the moulds not only give shape and creativity ...
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Traditionals with a twist Bakewell Tart by Fiona Burrell
The origins of the Bakewell tart are disputed. A question mark hangs over whether it was originally a tart or a pudding and if it was a mistake by an inexperienced cook. Both Bakewell puddings and Bakewell tarts are sold in Bakewell, Derbyshire, and they are very similar. The pudding ...
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Report Mintel’s survey sees home baking thrive
The rising popularity of home baking shows no sign of slowing, with the market predicted to grow 10% this year, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.The sector grew by 13% between 2007 and 2009 to reach £523m and this upward trend is set to continue, with ...
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Best in-show
Stop the Week was fortunate enough to attend the IBIE bakery exhibition in that heathen den of iniquity, Las Vegas, last week (hey, it’s a dirty job).There we had the rare opportunity to capture the lesser-spotted mullet on film. Increasingly shy of appearing in polite society, foreign trade shows offer ...
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Brand clinic: rejuvenate a craft business
Don Williams, CEO of brand and design consultacy Pi Global, suggests that brands need gentle nurturing as they pass from one generation to the next.Everything in the universe is governed by life stages: things are born, they reach their prime, they age and ultimately die (cheery eh?). But unlike us ...
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Improve sandwich bread, say panel experts
Sandwich producers need to focus on improving the quality of the bread they use, said experts at the recent Lunch! exhibition at Old Billingsgate.In a live panel debate on how to continue the growth of the lunch market, Caffè Nero director Paul Ettinger said he thought there was a "huge ...
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McVitie’s builds on festive celebration
United Biscuits (UBUK) has revealed its new line-up for the festive season, which includes a number of major biscuit launches. New for Christmas 2010 are: a McVitie’s Belgian Chocolate Biscuit Selection; McVitie’s Festive Faces jam ’n’ cream-filled biscuits; and McVitie’s Family Favourites Selection which includes Penguin, Club and ...
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Cake checker
Bakery name: Kuchenmeister in Soest one of the largest mid-market bakeries in Germany and the market leader in ready-made cakes.Machinery installed: Mettler Toledo Garvens XE3 checkweigher.Why has it been installed?: To ensure the correct product weight during production.What does the machinery do?: The XE3 is a compact, economical and ...
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Swedish take on cakes
Ikea has launched its first recipe book, Homemade is Best, and the ingredients layout is a move away from the ’cup of flour’ of other home-baking publications (more like ’assemble an hexagonal pyramid of flour and transport to mix’). Presumably, the methods are as frustrating and bile-raising as following Ikea’s ...
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My Career
Julian Carter, Hambleton Bakery, RutlandTell us a bit about the business.I head up a team of seven bakers and two cake-makers. We’re a sister company to Hambleton Hall hotel and have three shops: one at the main bakery in Exon, as well as in Oakham and Stamford. We’re supporters of ...
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Caught in the Web
The first-ever board game-themed coffee shop opens in Toronto with 1,500 games to choose from, called Snakes & Lattes... www.snakesandlattes.comGoogle Mobile’s bizarre video campaign to explain how your phone can direct you to any type of food you’re after, anywhere in the world... bit.ly/anWnv6If that whets your appetite for pizza, ...
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Unifine looks to Christmas
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients has added new products to its porfolio for Christmas. New circular chocolate plaques, with either Santa, Christmas tree or gift box designs feature on the chocolate button-shaped plaques. The plaques are made from Belgian milk chocolate and come in boxes of approximately 462 pieces.Silver and ...
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Clean and clear
Risk assessments are required under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and, recently, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been promoting a simple approach to the process to ensure that risk assessments are better understood by employees. This is supposed to result in the health ...
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Fox’s makes crisp move on Rocky
Fox’s Biscuits has added a new biscuit bar to its Rocky range. The new Rocky Crispy Crunch has been described by the firm as a "rugged and textured biscuit bar", which is covered in milk chocolate and contains wafer and biscuits bits.It joins Rocky Chocolate and Rocky Caramel in a ...