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Bakery suet supplier rivals Premier
A new suet manufacturer has set up in direct competition to industry giant Premier Foods.Prima Foods UK is producing up to 30 tonnes of suet a week for bakers, food manufacturers and wholesalers. It supplies multiples such as Tesco, Morrisons and The Co-operative Group as well as small independent retailers. ...
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Make sure you’re registered for BIE
The Baking Industry Exhibition opens this Sunday (21 March) at the NEC in Birmingham. The show will be packed full of new products, new ideas, exhibitors, and free advice so register now. British Baker will be at the show so visit stand K300 and meet the team. There are great ...
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Starbucks targets Welcome Break service station outlets
Starbucks is to open its first motorway services outlet in the UK, in a change of heart as it explores new avenues of trading.
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Starbucks targets Welcome Break service station outlets
Starbucks is to open its first motorway services outlet in the UK, in a change of heart as it explores new avenues of trading. The American giant plans to open 29 sites at Welcome Break service stations over the next 16 months, replacing Welcome Break’s Coffee Primo own-brand.It is understood ...
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Aryzta bakery profits hit by UK and Ireland downturn
Aryzta has announced negative growth in bakery for the six months ended 31 January 2010, with its UK and Irish markets seeing the highest revenue decline.
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Sugar and Ice owner wins business accolade
The director of a Leicester-based cake-making company has been named East Midlands Businesswoman of the Year.
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Pork Farms in Peperami and Branston partnership
Savoury pastry product specialist Pork Farms has teamed up with Peperami and Branston to launched a number of co-branded recipes.
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The British Baker archive 9 August, 1940: Wasters punished?
The Ministry of Food has made an order that will make it an offence, punishable by fine or imprisonment, to waste food. Among the conditions imposed by the order is that where anyone having the disposal of food unreasonably retains it until it becomes unfit for human consumption, he may ...
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Caption contest #2
In the tradition of bakery-related images that leave us speechless, words have failed us once again to explain away this ill-advised tattoo of a smiling cupcake sat on a toilet. Over to you, our squadron of trusted caption writers. Send your captions to: bb@william-reed.co.uk
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SIAB dedicates hall to pastry at 2010 event
SIAB, the Italian bakery show (Salon International of Arte Bianca), takes place in Verona from 22-26 May. For the first time, the show will dedicate a complete hall to pastry and is launching a specialist area dedicated to packaging, marketing and distribution.A new Techno-bake Forum will comprise a full-scale ...
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Coffee chains angered by Wi-Fi access proposals
Major coffee house chains and bakeries have slammed proposals to prosecute and even shut down cafés with Wi-Fi access if they fail to stop customers accessing illegal material.Last-minute changes to the Digital Economy Bill due to become law before the general election mean that cafés, pubs ...
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High costs force Scottish baker into administration
Scottish bakery Mathiesons has gone into administration, putting 360 jobs at risk.
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Planning ahead
May 22-26SIAB, Verona, Italywww.siabweb.comOne of the biggest international events for bakery, pastry, confectionery, machinery and ingredients, Italian show SIAB has innovation as its theme this year. The show will include a techno-bake forum with a workshop for fresh ideas, as well as a special area to show off new pastries, ...
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Allied Bakeries
Cardiff, Wales Service: Braby Service Division’s specialist confined space and rope access labour, cleaning services, remote access photographic techniques, hot pressure washing, grit blasting and re-coating service Why? To thoroughly clean the internal walls, ceiling and hopper of a 30ft flour silo to maintain constant high levels of hygiene and ...
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Appointments
VariousJBT FoodTechFollowing its acquisition of Double D in 2009 and subsequent consolidation of its UK operations and combining its Bedford and Broxburn sites to the 40,000sq ft site at Broxburn, JBT FoodTech has announced that the new operation will be headed up by Bob Petrie, Double D’s former managing director. ...
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Baker trials e-cantee
Lancashire bakery chain Halls is preparing to pilot an ’e-canteen’ concept in Chorley in the next few weeks.It hopes to sign up 12 local companies with around 100 employees for the scheme. Staff will be able to order and pay for lunch on the Halls website. It will then be ...
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Top bakery event ready to open doors to visitors
Don’t forget to register for the Baking Industry Exhibition, which takes place at the NEC in Birmingham from 21-24 March. The event this year will see the inclusion of a new area the ’Craft Baker’s Shop’ designed to give exhibitors the chance to demonstrate new products, in order ...
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Bakewell Ovens Ltd in firing line over ovens
Bakers have complained to British Baker about problems with Lancashire bio mass wood pellet oven specialist Bakewell Ovens Ltd, which went into administration last September. One craft baker said he had bought a bio mass wood pellet burning oven from Bakewell Ovens, which had broken down repeatedly, and attempted repairs ...
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Bako goes Solo on salt
Bako North Western says it has devised a product which it hopes will help bakers comply with the FSA’s salt reduction targets for 2012, without having a detrimental effect on products. Solo, an all-natural sea salt that contains 60% less sodium than ordinary salt, is enriched with magnesium and potassium. ...
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Clean-label sauce binder
Kampffmeyer Food Innovation has developed a clean-label binding system for the cold preparation of tomato sauces. No cooking is required, which means the sauce remains pulpy and fresh and retains its consistency, said the firm. It is also suited to automatic dosing processes.Purabind Pulp consists of physically treated wheat flour ...