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Bakery enlists help of business doctor
Royston’s Traditional Bakery in Long Stratton has enlisted the help of a ‘business doctor’ to help grow its bakery and coffee shop business.Royston Owen and his wife Michelle took over the bakery, formerly known as Mr Bunn the Baker, in May 2007 after spending four years as bakery manager for ...
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Hovis to push white bread sales
Premier Foods has announced strong growth for Hovis’ branded bakery, and plans to push for increased sales of white bread.In the firm’s preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009, it announced that branded bakery sales for Hovis grew by 13.5% to £370m, though it explained that the increase ...
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Pret continues expansion in airports
Pret A Manger has taken three steps towards its goal to be represented at all major airports across the UK, after securing locations at Birmingham airport.
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Hovis to push white bread sales
Premier Foods has announced strong growth for Hovis’ branded bakery, and plans to push for increased sales of white bread.
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Award win spurs growth for Anne’s
Anne’s Patisserie in Flint has announced plans to expand the business in 2010, following two gold wins at last year’s Great Taste Awards.
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Bakery enlists help of business doctor
Royston’s Traditional Bakery in Long Stratton has enlisted the help of a ‘business doctor’ to help grow its bakery and coffee shop business.
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Geary’s £1m bakery set to double loaf production
Leicestershire-based Geary’s Bakeries is to relocate to a new site and double production of its loaves, following a £1m investment.
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Geary’s £1m bakery set to double loaf production
Leicestershire-based Geary’s Bakeries is to relocate to a new site and double production of its loaves, following a £1m investment.Joint managing director Tony Marriott told British Baker that Geary’s hopes to be up and running at its new bakery, in Barrow upon Soar, by the end of March 2010. “The ...
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Geary’s £1m bakery set to double loaf production
Leicestershire-based Geary’s Bakeries is to relocate to a new site and double production of its loaves, following a £1m investment.Joint managing director Tony Marriott told British Baker that Geary’s hopes to be up and running at its new bakery, in Barrow upon Soar, by the end of March 2010. "The ...
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Warburtons to spend £10m on new ad drive
Warburtons is to spend £10m on a new advertising campaign, only weeks after it revealed a £25m investment programme at its Bolton bakery.The nationwide advertising campaign will run across television, print and on-line media and will feature the new strap-line ’Warburtons. We care because our name’s on it’. Launching ...
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Hovis’ £5m drive for British wheat
Hovis has launched a £5m television advertising campaign to support its move to using 100% British wheat in its loaves last month.The campaign will run for six weeks from 12 February, and will comprise four separate commercials promoting a different loaf in each Soft White, Wholemeal, Best of Both ...
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Acquisition boosts CSM to pole US slot
Global bakery products supplier CSM has reached an agreement to acquire US bakery manufacturer Best Brands for a cash consideration of $510m.The takeover of Best Brands, one of the largest premium bakery manufacturers in the US, would make CSM the "undisputed market leader in the North American bakery supplies market", ...
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Country Style Foods buys Ainsleys’ central bakery
Buyers have been found for the vast majority of Leeds-based Ainsleys, which went into administration in November, with Country Style Foods acquiring the company’s central bakery and brand.A deal has also been struck to sell 20 of Ainsleys’ 29 leasehold retail outlets, split evenly between craft bakery chains Cooplands of ...
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Ainsleys name survives as Country Style buys bakery
Craft bakery chain Ainsleys has been broken up and sold off to various buyers, with Country Style Foods acquiring the company’s central bakery and trading name, and Cooplands (Doncaster) and Coopland & Son (Scarborough) sharing most of the retail outlets. The majority of the 285 jobs at the Leeds-based company, ...
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CASH founder tackles FSA on salt alternatives
A leading anti-salt crusader has criticised the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) failure to support potassium-based alterna-tives to sodium chloride in food.Speaking at the launch of National Salt Awareness Week at the House of Commons last week, Professor Graham MacGregor, founder of Consensus Action on Salt (CASH), criticised the FSA for ...
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The Mirror takes on Andre
Through reasons only known to themselves, aspirational coffee chain Costa recently chose durable tabloid magnet Peter Andre to front its publicity drive around the launch of its ’flat white’ coffee, featured in these very pages (see Masterclass, pages 34-35).However, professional celebrity tittle-tattlers, The Mirror’s 3am Girls, were less than impressed ...
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Give your sandwiches fresh appeal
The vast majority of bakeries, cafés and convenience stores offer sandwiches as part of their product range. The sandwich is one of the UK’s favourite foods-to-go, with over 60% of customers wanting pre-packed, freshly made or heat & eat.So what do you need to know about your customers’ preferences and ...
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Apprentice win for Hobbs
A new craft bakery apprenticeship, set up by a group of south west bakers in conjunction with their local college, made the headlines when student Adam Greenaway was named as winning Bakery Apprentice.The Apprenticeship in Craft Baking at The City of Bristol College was launched 18 months ago with help ...
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Weighty argument
The world’s first integrated check weigher has been launched by Benier as part of a divider control system, which aims to optimise accuracy of dough weight.The Benier Dough Controller is a check weigher that is integrated into the divider’s Programmable Logic Control (PLC) to become part of the divider ...
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Chocks away
Greggs has started gathering intelligence on overseas markets as it prepares for international expansion. The company is already Great Britain’s biggest bakery takeaway operator, with 1,419 shops. But Greggs has plans to launch in other parts of the world in the longer term, says chief executive Ken McMeikan. Speaking to ...