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White plus joins wraps
Discovery Foods has redesigned its Wrapbread range and introduced a new variant to the market. White plus, the equivalent of ’best of both’ in bread, according to the company, now joins the three other variants in the range multiseed, white and wholemeal. The brand is presented in black packaging, ...
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Pins are just the ticket
Dalebrook Supplies has launched new ticket pins and stands, which can be used to promote special offers, label ingredients or simply display the price of an item.Three new products have been added to the range: a zinc alloy ticket stand; a zinc alloy ticket pin; and a stainless steel folded ...
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New Spin for slush kit
Italian ice cream equipment supplier Carpigiani has developed the Spin machine to produce slushes, shakes, smoothies and frappés. It features special effects to light up the product inside.Spin features a freezer with one, two or three 12-litre tanks and an indicator light to warn when the drip-tray is full.www.carpigiani.com
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Man, machine, method and money
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic management agency that works on brand development within the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectorsTime is everyone’s most valuable asset, so how do today’s successful in-store and high street bakers manage to achieve their targets? Answer: by giving customers what they ...
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Mancakes
In January, Stop the Week wrote about New York’s www.butchbakery.com offering up manly, camouflaged cupcakes with macho flavours, in protest at the dominance of girly pink varieties. The gender war appears to be rumbling in Canada too, with Toronto’s For the Love of Cake seeing a doubling of demand for ...
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Mexican WAVE
Mexican Concha is based on sweet enriched leavened dough, not too dissimilar to French brioche. They are round, soft bread rolls with a thick, sugary topping. Typical flavours are chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.Concha is probably the most popular of all the Mexican bakery products and is usually sold individually over ...
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Mouthing off
"Hey, I’ve been having better sex and longer with this here http://xxx/xxx"Sayers the Bakers’ Twitter entry on 26 February, 3am"Apologies we have been hacked, we have just changed our password. Apologies for any messages you may have received!"a rather more chaste Sayers the Bakers extinguishes the morning glory six hours ...
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Pasty power
West Cornwall Pasty Co (WCPC) has come a long way since it was founded in 1998 about 150 miles to be precise, as it’s now based in Oxford. And the concept of Cornishness has been propelled further still, on a journey via the Caribbean towards the edges of reason, ...
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In my world: Pop-up shops
Jo Fairley is co-owner of Judges organic bakery and grocery shop in Hastings and co-founded and sold Green & Black’s chocolate firm, with hubby Craig Sams’Pop-up shops’ are the retail buzz, right now. As bricks-and-mortar stores strive to compete with online sales, the swiftest way to add a little pizzazz ...
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Report
make the grade in thelatest Kantar reportThe country’s love affair with cupcakes shows no sign of abating, as their sales at in-store bakeries leapt by 41.6% in the last year.Kantar Worldpanel figures show that the popular sector was by far the biggest winner at in-store bakeries, followed by cookies (+11.5%), ...
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New pasty shopHusband and wife team Jeff and Jackie Welsh have opened a pasty shop in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, selling 39 different varieties of pasties. Newquay Pasty Shop Company is supplied by Cornish firm Crantock Bakery and has a 33-seat café.Irish cupcake dealIna’s Kitchen Desserts in Dublin has signed a 0.8m ...
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Costa loyalty cardThe UK’s biggest coffee chain Costa has launched a supermarket-style reward card scheme that will see customers accumulating points with each purchase of any food, drink or merchandising product sold in its Costa stores nationwide. The scheme has been on a year-long trial in Scotland.Donegal firm to growCo ...
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Substitute in style
Back in the 1950s, young graduate Margaret Thatcher was part of a chemical research team that discovered a method of doubling the amount of air or "overrun" in ice cream. This new foamy ice cream was popular among those consumers who preferred the lighter texture.And manufacturers were happy too ...
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Win-win week
Plans for the second National Craft Bakers’ Week (NCBW), which proved a big hit last year, are well under way. In fact, the overwhelming interest in last year’s debut celebration of bakers took even the organisers by surprise and proved that schools, the public and local media are still ...
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WRAP tackles sandwich and baked goods wastage
New research by Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is set to uncover how much waste is generated by pre-packed sandwiches. It is the first big study into the amount of waste in the UK retail supply chain created by pre-prepared food and aims to identify how this can be reduced, so that businesses can make cost and environmental savings.
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Ireland’s Gallagher’s Bakery boosts jobs
Co Donegal bakery company Galard Teo, which trades as Gallagher’s Bakery, has received an €0.8m investment from government agency Údaráis na Gaeltachta for new product development. The cash injection will fund 36 new jobs over the next three years, bringing the job total in the bakery to 207.
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FSA targets bakery for front-of-pack labelling
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it now wants cakes, puddings and yogurts to carry front of the pack nutritional labels, even as it climbs down on key stipulations of its ill-starred traffic lghts labelling initiative.
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Halls bakery tackles food miles
Lancashire bakery chain Halls has unveiled plans to expand via a network of stand-alone regional hubs, as a reponse to the issues of food miles and sustainability.
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NewsNew Costa loyalty scheme launched
The UK’s biggest coffee chain Costa will this week launch a points-based reward card for customers to use across food and drink purchases.