All News articles – Page 560
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Stifling the grass roots?
It goes against the grain, but some small bakers are effectively being priced out of getting organic certification. To carry the venerated Soil Association stamp, companies must fork out £548 plus VAT each year and a percentage of turnover if sales are more than £180,000 a year but it’s ...
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Home-spun handiwork
One book we’re unlikely to be reviewing is Knitted Cakes by Devon-based textiles author-cum-time-waster Susan Penny, which features a "mouth-watering" selection of mohair muffins and furry fairy cakes.This estimable tome to knit-wittery contains "twenty hand-knitted cakes to make and keep and twenty more to make and give away!" Yes, to ...
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More retailers join the home-grown wheat race
Supermarket enthusiasm for bread made with 100% British flour continues to grow, with Morrisons looking into making the switch in its in-store bakeries and Tesco launching an advertising campaign highlighting the use of home-grown wheat in its in-store farmhouse loaves.
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Italian innovation
When it comes to bakery companies, there are famous brand names, family names and quite a few foreign-sounding names. However, it’s not often one comes across a name so startlingly simple as Bakery and ironically the company is Italian.Bakery was started in 2004 by Roberto Parodi, who owned a ...
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Letter
I joined The Bakery School online with a year’s subscription, and also registered three of my staff members to complete the training. I would like to say what a good learning tool this has been for us. We are situated relatively remotely, so attending a college is fairly unrealistic for ...
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Moonlight sonata
From steel worker to cake maker not exactly a likely career progression more like chalk and cheese. However, Lightbody Celebration Cakes’ David McClymont proved that this unusual career path can indeed be a winning one after being crowned Celebration Cake Maker of the Year, sponsored by Renshawnapier, at the ...
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Bakers’ attractionExhibitor spaces at this year’s Bakers’ Fair in Bolton are filling up fast with several firms exhibiting for the first time. Among the newcomers is Polish bakery equipment supplier Masz, which plans to launch its slicers, mixers, moulders and ovens in the UK at the fair on Sunday, 3 ...
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Allied’s Tear DropsAllied Bakeries has invested in aerodynamic delivery trucks for Kingsmill, which help reduce fuel consumption. The company has introduced 23 ’Tear Drop’ trucks and two EcoStream delivery trucks to its fleet, which will carry the strap-line ’Kingsmill, on the road to slicing emissions’.Gluten-free growthThe global gluten-free market is ...
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Bagel on paradeA giant 3ft filled bagel, created by Bagel Nash to mark the opening of the Leeds Loves Food Festival, was carried through the streets of the city. The mammoth bagel was made using enough dough to make 300 regular bagels and weighed almost four stone.Burnley fire threatFamily-run bakery ...
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Online food outlet Self-confessed foodie Paul Boyce has set up FoodAdo.com an online business that showcases small family businesses developing UK produce and enables them to offer the ability to sell online via the site. Sussex-based Prosperity Brownies will act as its UK mail order arm.Marshfield monitoredWiltshire-based Marshfield Bakery ...
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Softly SOFHTe
It’s yet to be seen whether deputy PM Nick Clegg’s stated aim of burning through bureaucracy will be a bonfire of red tape or as the cynics might predict a kindling that doesn’t catch. But one baker has lit the touchpaper on her filing cabinet and, in so ...
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In my world
Umer Ashraf is a young entrepreneur who owns the Glasgow-based iCafé chain of shops, as well as smoothie and juice bar Paradise Bay, in Oban, ScotlandAfter the lengthy and bumpy ride of getting the electricity sorted for our new premises, which I wrote about in my last column, we have ...
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Costa ups the ’green’ coffee shop ante
Costa is turning its coffee shops green to reduce carbon emissions and conserve water.
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Mixed fortunes for Greggs’ late night opening trial
Bakery chain Greggs has called time on one of its late-night stores after a trial failed to pull in enough customers.
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World Cup hits Northern Foods’ bakery sales
Bakery sales at Northern Foods dipped 5.6% in the first quarter of the year, after promotions were put on hold during the World Cup.
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Starbucks claims recovery on track despite losses
Starbucks insists it is on the road to recovery in the UK despite the latest dismal results. Figures filed at Companies House for the 12 months to 27 September show it made a loss after taxation of £52.1m compared with a loss of £46.9m the previous year.
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Use-by dates shaken up by Warburtons
Warburtons has become one of the first brands to simplify on-pack dates.
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Macphie launches DeviliShh consumer brand
Scottish bakery ingredients manufacturer Macphie of Glenbervie has launched its first-ever consumer brand as it looks to double its turnover to £80m in the next 10 years.
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Bakers’ Fair welcomes new exhibitors
Exhibitor spaces at this year’s Bakers’ Fair in Bolton are filling up fast, with several companies taking stands at the one-day show for the first time.
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Kingsmill reveals Northern Ireland’s best sandwich
A sandwich of smoked cheese, pesto, roasted peppers and onions with sun-dried tomatoes and rocket leaves has been named as the tastiest in Northern Ireland.