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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.
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Riverside Bakery for sale as administrators called in
Middlesbrough-based Riverside Bakery has gone into administration, leaving 35 jobs in the balance.
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Reid’s bakery wins products award
Reid’s bakery of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland has won first prize in the New Products category in the Highlands and Island Awards.
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Smaller loaf size boosts Irwin’s Bakery
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s has added £1m to its turnover in the past year, after launching smaller loaf sizes of its key brands.
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Organic pie firm expands
Organic pasty and pie specialist Jones Organic has announced plans to expand its production facilities, with the addition of a new site, to cope with increased demand from specialist retailers in London and south-east England.
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NewsCosta reveals Christmas food range
Costa Coffee will tomorrow (Thursday, 29 October) launch its seasonal Christmas food specials in-store, with a range that includes 12 new sweet products.
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Blackfriars spends £1.2m
Leicester-based flapjack, muffin and cake producer Blackfriars Bakery has invested £1.2m in moving to a new 36,000 sq ft factory, which will enable it to improve efficiency and develop a raft of new products for major customer Holland & Barrett.The firm has spent the past two years operating from two ...
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Sainsbury’s gets nearer to 100% British flour
Multiple retailer Sainsbury’s has announced that it is "on course" to be the first retailer to use 100% British flour in its own-label sliced bread.This follows the announcement, in July this year, that its 400 in-store bakery-produced products are now made using 100% British flour, sourced with the help of ...
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Fit for purpose: Part 4 - for the love of location
If we were to believe the overused adage location, location, location, we often assume that this is critical to success, but how important is it? When the high street was the hub of every town, location was important and people would purchase their weekly provisions from local retailers because convenience ...
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FSA returns affirmative on folic acid fortification
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reaffirmed its recommendation that bread or flour should be fortified with folic acid after considering updated information on folic acid and cancer from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN).The recommendation to the chief medical officer (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson means mandatory fortification is ...
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Hovis adds flour
Rank Hovis has launched a new flour variant Hovis Multiseed which has been developed to meet growing consumer demand for seed and grain products. A blend of seeds and wheatgerm, the new variant is suitable for the production of tinned or handcrafted breads and rolls.Its launch will also ...
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Peros aims for One World
A new Fairtrade bakery range, One World, has been launched by ethical foodservice distributor Peros. It comprises: traditional flapjacks; chocolate chip flapjacks; fruit flapjacks; large Eccles cakes; chocolate brownies; chocolate chip shortbread; toffee muffins, lemon muffins, chocolate muffins and blueberry muffins.The range has been produced by artisan bakers in the ...
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Alternative to sodium sets off bakery debate
The launch of a new sodium alternative has sparked a debate on the use of potassium chloride in bread.Volac’s sodium and sugar replacer Volactose Whey Permeate contains 2.6% potassium and is labelled a ’high-performance cross-category sodium and sugar replacer’, which can be used in a wide variety of ...
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Could sarnie be sign of the Apocalypse?
Is the coming of the Apocalypse going to be triggered by some baker Beelzebub? Thus pondered one dumbstruck Fox News host Shepard Smith, who ominously met news of the latest sarnie innovation a bacon and cheese donut burger by saying: "There are signs of the Apocalypse. I mean, ...
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Greggs plans new bakery to back up retail growth
Greggs plans to build an additional bakery in the south of England to support the proposed opening of 600 new stores.In its half-year statement in August, the bakery chain said it aimed to open 30-40 net new shops in 2010, but an interim statement this week revealed this has ...
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Bring back the great British tea
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic management agency that focuses on business and brand development within the bakery foodservice and convenience sectorsNot everything about the days drawing in and the onset of winter is depressing. We all start dreaming of savoury or sweet, rich and warm comforting ...
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Biggin’ up the baker
I get by with a little help from my friends" is a familiar phrase. "I get by with a little help from my local regeneration agency" is, perhaps, less catchy. But that’s exactly how one start-up bakery has managed to survive the daunting prospect of setting up in one of ...
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Export sales window for UK bakeries
Europe’s flourishing coffee shop market could represent a lucrative new export opportunity for British bakery companies well versed in supplying the demanding UK market.According to a new report from Allegra Strategies, the European branded coffee shop market has grown by 9% this year to a total of 9,360 stores in ...
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Bakers fear impact of revalued business rates
Bakers fear a business rates hike will put even more pressure on their already precarious fortunes.Business premises are revalued every five years to ensure that rateable values reflect changes in the property market. However, the next revaluation due to take effect in April 2010 is based on rent ...
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Hovis sees surge in branded breads
Hovis has seen its sales rocket by over a fifth, according to Premier Foods’ third-quarter results.For the 13 weeks to 26 September 2009, Hovis branded bread sales were up 22% compared to the same period last year. A spokesperson for Premier said the current financials reported compare largely to Hovis’ ...