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Fit for purpose: Window on your world
Richard Hamilton of HamiltonBIG, a creative retail and brand consultancy, discusses the benefits of a good shopfrontA window on the world works both ways when talking shopfronts. It’s your marketing showcase, so make sure it’s right.Shopfronts come in all different styles and materials many dictated by the existing building, ...
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Tilting screen resists flour
Point-of-sale management and till manufacturer Aures Technologies has launched a new tilting screen version of ELIOS an all-in-one slimline EPoS terminal.The base of the EPoS terminal now features a hinge system which enables the touchscreen display to be tilted to any angle between 0 and 60°.The firm says the ...
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Frozen garlic: it’s the future
Rectory Foods is hoping to make inroads into the bakery ingredients sector with the launch of a new 10-strong range of garlic products suitable for bakery. The firm now offers premium frozen and dehydrated garlic as well as an ambient sterilised purée.The frozen range includes premium whole garlic cloves, as ...
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Government has plans for planning system
The new government looks set to simplify the planning system and encourage coffee shops to open stores in high streets.Its Coalition Agreement has set out proposals first announced in the Tories’ green paper, Open Source Planning, which includes a pledge to tackle deliberate breaches of planning control and limit the ...
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An idea that’s a steal
We’ve stolen enough from America in recent year muffins, giant cookies, glazed doughnuts, cupcakes, whoopie pies. Why not nick the latest bakery retail concept that is quite literally a steal? A few months ago, Stop the Week picked up on a ’Pay what you like’ experiment carried out by ...
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July in-store: ’sun-sational’ offers
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business accelerator specialising in foodservice, bakery and convenience retail sectorsAs you know, when the sun shines our sales are often negatively affected. So, in order to protect ourselves what factor sun-screen do we need to slap on?The answer is simple: keep ...
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Mini mocha maker
Melitta highlighted what it claims is the world’s smallest fully automatic coffee machine the new C35 at the Caffe Culture exhibition last month.A working preview model of the new C35 was on display, and is due to be available in the UK from September. The machine has been ...
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Taste of the Med
Byron Bay Cookie Company has added a Lemon & White Chocolate Cheesecake Cookie to its range. Unveiled at this year’s Caffe Culture exhibition at the end of June, the cookie features chunks of white chocolate, the zest of Mediterranean lemons and lemon curd.Baked in the UK, the new cookie is ...
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Mouthing off
"I have been for three years baking cakes. And now I’m going to bake a cake that has a bitter jelly. The message of the new music is now more bitter than it was before. Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be"Er, got that? Lady ...
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Say it with organic sunflower oil
Sonneveld has launched two organic release agents made from sunflower oil: Bio Release for releasing bread and bakery products and Bio Division 75 for lubricating dough dividing equipment and dough hoppers.They are 100% vegetable-based and contain no E-numbers, said the Netherlands-based company. They are also flavourless, odourless and leave no ...
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Space saver
Wood Stone has added another oven to its Bistro range.The Bistro 4355 joins the 3030 and 4343, and is constructed from the same materials as the larger Wood Stone commercial stone hearth ovens. They can be used to make products such as pizza.The new model has a larger cooking surface ...
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Sayer’s strategy
For some, the chasm between craft baking and the supermarkets is incalculable. Not so for Asda’s in-store bakery buyer Laura Sayer, who can measure it in generations. Name ring a bell? It will if you are familiar with the UK’s second-largest bakery chain, which Sayer’s great grandparents started in Liverpool ...
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Flour conformityAll flour bought by government departments will soon have to conform to British farming and manufacturing standards. Under a new government plan, flour used in hospitals, schools and prisons will have to meet production standards such as the Red Tractor scheme or LEAF Marque scheme. The commitment is for ...
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Goal for Jaffa CakesEngland goalkeeper David James is the new face of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes’ consumer campaign. It marks the launch of a football-themed on-pack promotion across McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes, which offers consumers the chance to win football-related prizes. These include Nintendo Wiis, footballs and football goals, to encourage families ...
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’Childhood’ contestUK participants in the Amoretti 2010 World Pastry Team Championship in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, in July, will be captained by Javier Mercado, from Westminster Kingsway College. The subject of this year’s Championship is ’Childhood’, conveyed through the use of chocolate, sugar and pastillage. Team GB will be using pallets ...
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Bakehouse boughtLantmännen Unibake has completed its acquisition of UK speciality breads and pastries supplier Bakehouse, after acquiring the remaining shares in the company. In March this year, Lantmännen announced its intention to strengthen its position in the UK market by investing in a new bakery in the UK. The location ...
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Students’ union
It was a weekend full of thrills and thankfully very few spills at the Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees (ABST) Annual Conference at the Alton Towers Hotel last month.The organisation’s outgoing president Christopher Freeman said he was pleased with the quality and quantity of competition entries. "I was also ...
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Training triumph
There was one company which undoubtedly came out on top when it came to training at the Baking Industry Awards last year. A fourth generation business, still owned and run by the Coopland family, Coopland & Son (Scarborough) has grown enormously since it moved to its purpose-built factory and current ...
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Top judges for 2010 cupcake competition
Leading UK cake experts will judge entries for Britain’s Best Cupcake Baker 2010, part of the build-up to National Cupcake Week, running from 13-19 September.
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NewsNew EU Organic logo comes into force
From today (1 July) all pre-packaged organic produce will need to carry the new Euro-leaf logo. The new EU organic logo was designed by German student Dusan Milenkovic after a pan-European competition was held by the European Commission.