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Hovis, health and hitting the headlines
Jon Goldstone, you terrible tease! A long, involved chat with the brand boss, sat in Hovis HQ in Windsor arranged to find out the secrets behind the bread’s recent runaway success gave no hint of the epoch-shifting announcement he would make a week later (a day after BB ...
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High noon for the high street
A stroll down the high street can be a gloomy experience at the moment, with shutters down and ’To Let’ signs up. And the list of victims of the recession continues to grow. First Quench put 1,200 Threshers and Wine Rack outlets into administration in October. And baker Ainsleys ...
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Jobs saved at Riverside
Middlesbrough-based Riverside Bakery has been rescued by a local businessman after the company went into administration in October. All 35 jobs at the bakery have been saved, after administrators Baker Tilly sold the business, which will now trade as Tees Valley Bakery Limited.According to Baker Tilly, the new owner, who ...
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Mouthing off
"I have a recurring dream where I’m running up some stairs and I don’t know what’s at the top of them; it’s just a black hole. When I get to the top there’s a piece of bread on a pedestal. Either I need to start eating less or more bread, ...
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Report
Consumers want all genetically modified (GM) food products to be labelled, including those where GM is used as a processing aid or in animal feed, according to new qualitative research commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).The report, Exploring Attitudes to GM Food, found that consumers were confused by GM ...
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Reporting in
Matthew GoodmanPolicy representative, Forum of Private Business (FPB)Here in the waning months of 2009, many business owners are ramping up for the holidays, stocking their shelves, preparing for the change in the rate of VAT and trying to find the right turkey for Christmas dinner! So, I hate to ...
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Subway slashes salt in sandwiches by a third
Subway has cut salt in its ’sub’ sandwiches by a third in the past year as part of healthy eating commitments made with the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Over 90% (24 out of 26) of the chain’s range of sandwiches now meet the FSA’s 2010 salt targets, with the retailer ...
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Show-stopping sarnie
’Tis the season for celebrity chefs to pepper the press with sumptuous-looking festive book-plugging recipes. So we doff our caps in the direction of gastro boffin Heston Blumenthal for going against the grain and phoning in this Christmas show-stopping sarnie to freebie paper Metro. Over to you, Blumers... "Heat some ...
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Ainsleys deal nearsAinsleys’ administrators are in "advanced" talks with some of the interested parties for all or part of the business. Joint administrator at Grant Thornton Joe McLean explained that he was in talks with 10 interested parties, and was looking at a variety of options for the business going ...
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Conran has designs on Coffee RepublicCoffee Republic has appointed Terence Conran’s architecture and design company Conran & Partners to revamp its stores, starting with two outlets in London and Brighton. The decision was prompted by research showing women were less likely to be attracted by the dark colours of the ...
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Greencore resultsGreencore has announced a 0.4% increase in operating profit, to 46.4m, for its Convenience Foods division for the 52 weeks ending 25 September 2009. The division includes its food-to-go, cakes and desserts, and foodservice desserts businesses. The firm said that while consumers are still willing to spend in indulgent ...
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Free-from successFinsbury Foods said that falling sales in its cake business has resulted in a 2% drop in revenue for the 17 weeks to the end of October. Its bread and free-from businesses achieved double-digit growth, with its acquisition of Goswell Bakeries contributing to an 11% growth in sales. Like-for-like ...
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Space-age technology
Macadams Baking Systems has introduced an "advanced space-age insulating material, created for the space shuttle when it re-enters the earth’s atmosphere" to its latest range of ovens. Called LDB Powersaver, test results, revealed at this year’s Iba exhibition, show a single rack oven fitted with the material gives a 20kw ...
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Tunnel vision
What can the optimum travelling oven achieve? Fast efficient baking well, that should be a given. But nowadays, every semi and industrial user is looking for more. At the Iba exhibition in Germany, Gouet, a part of Mecatherm, launched its new Double Action oven. Gouet chairman Olivier Sergent took ...
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National Doughnut Week raises over £25,000
Almost double last year’s number of bakery shops took part in National Doughnut Week this year, and raised over £25,000 for charity The Children’s Trust. The fundraising event, sponsored by BakeMark UK, was founded by Christopher Freeman of bakery Dunn’s of Crouch End.
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National Doughnut Week raises over £25,000
Almost double last year’s number of bakery shops took part in National Doughnut Week this year, and raised over £25,000 for charity The Children’s Trust.The fundraising event, sponsored by BakeMark UK, was founded by Christopher Freeman of bakery Dunn’s of Crouch End. For every doughnut sold during the week, a ...
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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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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 pressure from utility creditors.
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Aryzta sees falling revenue in UK and Ireland
Aryzta has seen revenue fall across its UK and Irish speciality bakery businesses as “substantially reduced customer spending” has resulted in tough trading conditions for the firm.Revenue in its Food Europe division dropped 11.4% for the 13 weeks to 31 October 2009. The firm, formed in August 2008 through the ...
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FSA proposes saturated fat targets for savouries
Savoury snacks, including meat pies and pastries, are the focus of a new consultation by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Launched this week, it is the second of two consultations on the reduction of saturated fat and calories in foods.The first, which launched in July and closed in November, covered ...