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Muntons invests £500k in Centre of Excellence
Muntons has unveiled plans to open a £500,000 Centre for Excellence, at it headquarters in Stowmarket, in January 2010.The investment, which includes a purpose-built factory, will become the focal point for the firm innovation and new product development.The Centre will feature an NPD kitchen, sensory testing room, bakery, micro-brewery and ...
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Konditor & Cook opens new Southbank outlet
Upmarket cake shop and cafe chain Konditor & Cook has opened its sixth outlet near London’s Southbank. Located on Stamford Street, the shop’s layout is inspired by “a new take on the domestic kitchen”, which has been designed to showcase its best known cakes and savouries. Personalised wedding cake consultations ...
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Konditor & Cook opens new Southbank outlet
Upmarket cake shop and café chain Konditor & Cook has opened its sixth outlet near London’s Southbank. Located on Stamford Street, the shop’s layout is inspired by “a new take on the domestic kitchen”, which has been designed to showcase its best-known cakes and savouries.
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Assets of cake company go on sale
The ovens and kitchen equipment belonging to Liskeard-based The Small Cake Company have been put up for sale ahead of the liquidation of the firm. The business, which specialised in cakes, quiches and fruit pies, is due to enter into liquidation on 23 December 2009 under the advice of insolvency ...
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Lees and Patisserie UK resolve dispute
Lees Foods has reached a settlement with the former directors and shareholders of Patisserie UK, which will see the Coatbridge-based firm receive approximately £225,000.In June this year Lees announced it would be taking legal action against the people from whom it bought Patisserie UK - a specialist bakery business that ...
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Peter’s sees slice sales rise
Sales of pastry manufacturer Peter’s slices have increased by 60% following the launch of its Premier Slice Range in November, the firm revealed.Peter’s said the range has “smashed sales targets”, with slices in Tesco stores across Wales up by 108%.“This is the most successful product launch we have ever had ...
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Lees and Patisserie UK resolve dispute
Lees Foods has reached a settlement with the former directors and shareholders of Patisserie UK, which will see the Coatbridge-based firm receive approximately £225,000. In June this year Lees announced it would be taking legal action against the people from whom it bought Patisserie UK – a specialist bakery business that went into administration in March 2009 under Lees’ ownership.
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J2 develops EPoS first
J2 Retail Systems, a manufacturer of PC-based touchscreen tills, has launched the first EPoS system to contain Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage as standard.Its new J2 615 integrated touchscreen computer was designed by the company’s in-house research and development team, and uses the new Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor and Intel ...
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Retail boost for craft sector at BIE 2010
Next year’s Baking Industry Exhibition, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham from March 21-24, will host a new area the ’Craft Baker’s Shop’.The Shop is designed to give exhibitors the chance to demonstrate innovative and exciting new products, which will help independent bakers improve their retail offering. ...
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Burford aims to add value
Burford Corporation’s stand at Iba was manned by Terry O’Donahue, who numbers Lantmännen Unibake, Allied and British Bakeries among customers, together with Braces and Nicholas & Harris. On the packaging side, O’Donahue was showing the latest range of bag-closing single wire machines and tamper-evident tape closure machines. For the baking ...
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Administration plagues Firkins for a third time
West Midlands bakery firm Firkins Foods has been bought out of administration by MD and sole director Ian Bolderston for the third time in three years, saving all 200 jobs.Bolderston called in the administrators on 11 November 2009 after the firm, which operates a bakery and 27 shops, came under ...
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Pie sales soar after website redesign
The Nottinghamshire-based pie maker Lime Tree Pantry has increased its online sales by 600%, in one week, after it received a grant from the Food and Drink iNet to redevelop its website.Sales rocketed from an average of £333 per week to more than £2,331 in the first seven days following ...
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Cumbrian bakers battle on against flood chaos
Bakeries have been among the Cumbrian businesses forced to cope with the severe flooding that recently hit parts of Workington and Cockermouth.Michael Bell, MD of Bells of Lazonby, based in Penrith, said: "It has been a big inconvenience, but we’ve just got to get on with things." The bakery has ...
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Scotch Pie champions announced
A butcher has pipped a baker to win the World Scotch Pie Championship as Murdoch Brothers Butchers was announced winner of the 11th annual contest. But bakers did triumph in the most categories.Judged at Carnegie College last month, 85 bakers and butchers entered a total of eight categories a ...
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Aryzta sees revenue drop
Aryzta has seen revenue fall across its UK and Irish speciality bakery businesses as "substantially reduced customer spen-ding" resulted in tough trading conditions for the firm.Revenue in its Food Europe division dropped 11.4% in the 13 weeks to 31 October 2009. The firm, formed in August 2008 through the merger ...
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Hovis backs British wheat to perform in long term
Hovis is confident that long-term supplies of the British red wheat it plans to use in its bread will prove reliable, despite the variety’s reputation for low yields and susceptibility to disease when grown in the UK.
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McCambridge boosted by Barclays funding
Bakery group McCambridge has secured £6m funding from Barclays Bank to invest in its Soreen and own-label brands.The firm, which recently filed its accounts, has made an operating profit of £2.7m to 30 June 2009, compared to a £5.4m loss in its previous financial year. Group commercial director Neil Fraser ...
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Independents face uphill battle on calorie labelling
Independent sandwich bars and bakery shops will struggle to meet Food Standards Agency (FSA) plans for calorie labelling in foodservice, which are being considered in a newly launched consultation. According to the British Sandwich Association (BSA), small sandwich retailers do not have the technical capabilities to calculate the calorie content of their products and could be left isolated by the FSA’s plan to encourage the voluntary display of calorie information in outlets.
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Bolt on business
Laura Bolt is on something of a learning curve. Having previously worked as a business writer in Nottingham, before freelancing while living in Switzerland last year, she came to the realisation that her passions lay elsewhere. After much research, she enrolled on a three-month course at Ballymaloe Cookery School in ...
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Modern take on a traditional cake
The Black Forest Gateau originated in Germany, but had come to be seen as a little old-fashioned. However, the combination of chocolate, cream, kirsch and cherries is an all-time classic. Bachmanns developed this lighter, more modern version and, for 10 years, it has been a favourite with our customers.IngredientsChocolate sponge, ...