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ABST hosts Cup rounds
The qualifying and selection rounds for the 2011 UK SIGEP Bread Cup Team will take place at the Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees (ABST) annual conference on 12 June.The conference, which will be held at Alton Towers Conference Centre from 11-13 June, will host four competition classes for the ...
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African fruit arrives in UK industry
An unusual fruit from a native African tree, the baobab, is now available for use in bakery products such as cereal bars, muffins and cakes.Baobab, which is contained in a hard nut, has six times more vitamin C than oranges and twice as much calcium as milk. The Organic Herb ...
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Hovis shows a Hearty appetite for oats category
Oaty breads are set to become the new battleground in the bread fixture, after Hovis revealed an ambitious £30m 12-month sales target for its Hearty Oats loaf.
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Lion roars for bakers
This year’s celebration of craft bakers is shaping up nicely, with merchandise now available and ambassadors appointed to big-up the baker. Driving National Craft Bakers’ Week (NCBW) forward will be World Cup-winning rugby legend Phil Vickery, who will be getting involved in promotions as this year’s official ambassador. Appropriately hailed ...
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New bakery course over-subscribed
The bakery option on a new advanced diploma in Artisan Food Production is over-subscribed as people look to retrain and set up their own businesses.The School of Artisan Food in Nottinghamshire is now accepting applications for the two-year full-time advanced diploma, which begins in September, with students able to specialise ...
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Jacksons Bakery Hull
Machinery: Vantage SystemWhy installed: Jacksons wanted to upgrade to a state-of-the-art recipe formulation system, which could guarantee every batch was right first time. So it decided to upgrade its Stevens Recipe Formulation and Average Weight Systems to the latest ’Vantage’ Systems, from Dataprocess Stevens.What it does: Its function allows the ...
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Ginsters Bakery Callington, Cornwall
Machinery: Schubert TLM (Top Loading Machine)Why installed: Ginsters’ bakery in Callington was extended to include a new 300m2 packing facility.How it came about: Two Schubert machines have been in operation at the site since 2007, but Ginsters wanted to add a third automated packaging machine to pack its Cornish pasties ...
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Theydon Bois Bakery Epping, Essex
Machinery: Abacus digital water batching systemWhy installed: Using buckets is time-consuming, as each one has to be filled and then carried to the mixing vessel, with the total tallied an activity that takes up much of the operator’s working day.How it came about: Owner Nigel Bramman contacted John Morton ...
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Let the show begin
Ladies and gentlemen! Roll-up, roll-up for the 2010 Baking Industry Awards, which scour the country in search of the baking industry’s high fliers and success stories. This issue we welcome two new sponsors: Bakels, sponsoring Speciality Bread Product of the Year; and Dawn Foods, sponsoring In-Store Bakery of the Year ...
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Reporting in Quash erroneous beliefs on bread
Gordon Polsondirector, Federationof BakersEarlier this year, research commissioned jointly by the Federation of Bakers and the Flour Advisory Board and carried out by the University of Portsmouth found that up to 20% of adults think they suffer from a food allergy or intolerance. However, evidence suggests that the ...
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Enter the BIA without delay
Make sure you get your entries in for the Baking Industry Awards. The Awards, now in their 23rd year, celebrate the best of the British baking industry, and are attended by key players from across the industry.Open to businesses of all sizes, the awards now include two new categories: In-Store ...
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Strong exports for biscuits
Exports of sweet and savoury biscuits and cakes rose in 2009, according to new report on UK Food & Drink Export Perfor-mance, published by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).With research carried out by Leatherhead Food, the report revealed that, within the cereals and bakery category, sales of sweet ...
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Political blunder
The moment the starter gun was fired on the general election, Stop the Week dusted off its binoculars to commentate on an eagerly anticipated political race of the campaign: the first politician to claim a bakery-related gaffe.It was only a matter of time and they didn’t disappoint. STW hates to ...
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Ex-bakery boss faces foxy dilemma
If you’ve ever wondered ’is there life after bakery?’ then the answer on last week’s evidence is ’yes’ if you’re BB’s favourite bakery-boss-turned-sports-impresario and a ’no’ if you’re the uppety fox who’s stepped into his crosshairs.Step forward Dave "Bear Grylls" Brooks, former chief exec of Britain’s second-largest cake ...
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Brand clinic: Innovation - get it right
Don Williams, CEO of brand and design consultancy Pi Global advises staying in touch with the real world when it comes to innovationIf there were ever a concept for which the word ’hype’ was invented it’s... innovation! Innovation is, without doubt, the most over-used noun in the marketing world’s vocabulary.Not ...
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Speciality breads defy recessionary trends
Supermarket sales of speciality bread have bounced back from the recession as shoppers opt to save money by cooking at home rather than dining out.
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Traditionals with a twist shortbread by Fiona Burrell
The Scots are very good at baking and shortbread is one of their best recipes. It is made using three parts flour, two parts butter and one part sugar.The name comes from the fact that the amount of butter in the dough makes it very crumbly or "short". It is ...
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Cookies by design
CSM United Kingdom has launched a new Craigmillar Cookie Mix, designed to give bakers flexibility and add variety to their cookie menu."With this new mix you control the portion size of your cookies," explained development manager Norman Chappel. "You control the unit cost of your cookies by varying the amount ...
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Organic firms counter data showing falling sales
Organic bakery producers have come forward with stories of sales growth in response to the Organic Market Report, which revealed that sales of organic bread and bakery items had plummeted during the recession.The report, published by the Soil Association, announced that sales in the category one of the hardest-hit ...
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Creeping up on craft
Known for predominantly supplying the industrial baking sector, Cereform is taking a step out of its comfort zone and targeting the craft industry with a number of new products.The firm has invested in excess of £250,000 into these products and that’s purely on the equipment needed to manufacture them, ...