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Consumers continue to see health and wellness as an important issue, according to new research by Tate & Lyle. The findings also revealed that consumers will pay more for foods that display health benefits on their labels. The research, conducted in July this year, forms part of Tate & Lyle’s ...
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A Swede in Scotland
When running a mountain lodge in his native Sweden around a decade ago, Peter Ljungquist came to the conclusion that he would like to make the best jam, chocolate and ice cream in the whole country. And since he had "always been passionate about bread" too, a bespoke brick oven ...
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Rise for AlliedA strong performance by Allied Bakeries in the year to 12 September 2009, helped increase sales at Associated British Foods’ grocery division by 13% to £3,188m. Profit declined by 2% to £191m, mainly due to first-half problems with its ACH subsidiary in the US and a highly competitive ...
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Palmers’ pie partyPalmers Bakery in Haughley is to celebrate its 140th birthday on 4 December by giving away free mince pies with each purchase. The Bakehouse, established around 1752, was taken over by William James Palmer as a bakehouse, pastry cook, booksellers and newsagents in 1869. The business, which produces ...
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Rowe’s successRowe’s branded savoury bakery concession, introduced in July at Asda, St Austell (Cornwall), has beaten pre-opening sales estimates, with weekly figures up to 40% higher than predicted.Maple Leaf resultsCanadian company Maple Leaf saw earnings in its Bakery Group increase to $32.7m in the third quarter compared to $30.6m the ...
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Suits you, sir
Not content with throwing televisions out of the window, rock stars are turning their destructive tendencies to bread, it would seem.Speaking on last Thursday’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks, musician and record producer-of-the-moment Calvin Harris described how, when working in a bakery when he was younger, he and colleagues used to ...
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Tiramisu titan
What is it with the glut of cakey world record attempts right now? Is it some kind of ironic comment on the Western obesity epidemic, or a reaction to greater government interference in the sweet treats we eat? The latest giant pudding, a Tiramisu, has officially been given the ’world’s ...
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A toast to toasters
We were just thinking, ’the world of toaster innovation has gone a bit quiet of late’, and then three major domestic bread-heating advances drop on our desks.First up is the ’bacon butty toaster’. Following last year’s Toast N Egg a toaster with an egg fryer unceremoniously bolted onto the ...
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In my world
Fond as I am of jaunty ribbon, there’s only one kind I want to see in my business the blue stuff, prettily embossed with our Judges Bakery logo, rather than the giant rolls of red tape, which everyone from the local council to Brussels via the Food Standards Agency ...
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Park Royal Innovation Centre opened
A food and drink innovation centre has launched in London, with bakers high up on the priority list for business support.
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NewsSIAB to stage world-class competition
Italy’s biggest bakery exhibition, SIAB, is to launch a new Breads of the World competition, which will see nine international teams going head to head.
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Impless acquires Irish arm of O’Briens chain
The Irish arm of the sandwich chain O’Briens has been bought out of liquidation by Impless, a newly formed subsidiary of Irish fast food group Abrakebabra Investments (AIL).
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Impless acquires Irish arm of O’Briens chain
The Irish arm of the sandwich chain O’Briens has been bought out of liquidation by Impless, a newly formed subsidiary of Irish fast food group Abrakebabra Investments (AIL).The chain, which was put into examinership – the equivalent to administration in the UK – in July this year, was put into ...
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FSA plans second wave of attack on sat fats
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will launch a second wave of saturated fat posters early in 2010, as part of a renewed campaign to reduce saturated fat intake, following a drive to target pastry earlier this summer.
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FSA plans out its second wave of attack on sat fats
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will launch a second wave of saturated fat posters early in 2010, as part of a renewed campaign to reduce saturated fat intake, following a drive to target pastry earlier this summer.“We intend to come back to saturated fat as a campaign – probably in ...
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JJ Food Service strikes Cooks the Bakery deal
JJ Food Service has struck a multi-million pound deal which will see it supply Cooks the Bakery store across the UK.
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JJ Food Service strikes Cooks the Bakery deal
JJ Food Service has struck a multi-million pound deal which will see it supply Cooks the Bakery store across the UK. The open-ended contract, worth £4 million per annum, covers 72 Cooks stores which were previously supplied by 3663.Distribution company JJ Food Service will supply ambient, chilled and frozen products ...
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Barking students star in Morrisons video
Bakery students at Barking College have played a starring role in an educational video commissioned by Morrisons.The supermarket recently sent a film crew to the college to capture what it takes to train the bakers of the future. The aim of the video is to inspire and inform young people ...
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SIAB to stage world-class competition
Italy’s biggest bakery exhibition, SIAB, is to launch a new Breads of the World competition, which will see nine international teams going head to head.Held at the Verona show, from 22-26 May 2010, the new contest will see bakers from around the world test their bread-making skills against each other, ...