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Pre-tax profit rockets at Roberts Bakery
Roberts Bakery has announced a pre-tax profit increase of 37% to £6.92m as it filed its accounts for the year to 29 August 2009.
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Northern plans Goodfella’s pizza relaunch
Pre-tax profit may be down, but Northern Foods has said it is investing for growth, with the planned relaunch of its Goodfella’s pizza brand this year.
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Bakers benefit from point-of-sale website
Craft bakers are using an innovative website as a low-cost way to help advertise their business.
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Square Pie announces World Cup pie-off
Square Pie has announced that its Pie World Cup is to return to coincide with the Football World Cup this summer.
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Lees Foods sees healthy profit rise
Lees Foods has seen its year-on-year pre-tax profit increase more than twofold from £379k in 2008 to £843k in 2009.
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NewsMama’s Cosmopolitan Cupcake
Britain’s official best cupcake baker Kevin Sibley, founder of Mama’s Cupcakes, has created a highly tempting couture cupcake to celebrate the release of the movie Sex and the City 2.Kevin, National Cupcake Champion 2009, says The Cosmopolitan is the perfect accompaniment to the return of the SATC girls to the big screen on May 27.
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Strong sandwich sales aid Greencore’s profits
Strong sandwich sales and consumer demand for meal deals has helped Greencore to up its operating profit by 31.8%, to €25.9m for the half year ended 26 March, 2010.
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NewsTasties lands Welsh Tesco deal
Flintshire firm Tasties has landed a deal to supply Tesco’s 13 stores in North Wales with a new range of sandwiches.
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Stephen Ort passes away
Stephen Ort, previously a regular contributor to British Baker, died recently after a long illness.
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4 August, 1935: Worst thing since bread slicing
Now in America they have a machine for slicing dough before it is baked, and this idea is rather novel. The ’Do Slicer’ passes the moulded dough piece to a cutting frame where 25 sickle-shaped knives revolve through slots in the frame. Melted fat is smeared automatically on the knife ...
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2010 NAMB conference report
The feedback from this year’s NAMB conference at Heron’s Reach in Blackpool was great. Tired but happy – that’s how I felt at the end of the event.
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Manchester firm makes £4m bakery investment
Manchester-based GH Sheldon plans to boost sales with the supermarkets and expand into other channels after investing nearly £4m in a second bakery.The family-run firm, which supplies oven-bottom muffins, hot cross buns, balm cakes and batons to the major multiples, has doubled capacity by buying and refurbishing a building opposite ...
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Carry-over of statutory holiday following sick leave absence
The case is Shah v First West Yorkshire. Mr Shah was off work for three months between January and April 2009.
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Adams aids health values
Adams Food Ingredients, the functional ingredients division of The Irish Dairy Board, has launched a line of additives to help bakers enhance the health and nutritional values of products. The range has been designed to fortify foods, reduce fat content, increase fibre content and lower levels of cholesterol and sugar ...
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Waitrose adds to sweet lines
West Sussex firm Prosperity Brownies has started supplying nine Waitrose stores in Sussex with its brownies and flapjacks this month.Launched in stores on 17 May were two brownie lines original and dark chocolate and raspberry and two lines of its recently developed flapjack range Prosperity Jacks, in dark ...
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Premier adds to portfolio
New to Fleming Howden’s (Premier Foods’) portfolio is The Premier Range of cake mixes for both craft bakers and cake manufacturers. The mixes, developed by the technical team at Fleming Howden over the past six months, comprise: Premier Genoese Mix; Premier Doughnut Mix; Crème Cake Mix; American Doughnut Mix & ...
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Technical advice
Richard Stevenson, technical manager at the NAMB, answers members’ queries on food and trading law and other business issues
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Irish ayes for M&S
Co Londonderry-based artisan bakery Genesis Crafty has launched a new Irish Bakery range in Marks & Spencer, after successfully gaining supplier accreditation by the store.The range is now available in 38 stores throughout Ireland and features four-packs of Iced Tops (iced Madeira buns), Jammy Rounds (Madeira buns dipped in raspberry ...