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Wrights unveils trial store
Wrights has unveiled a prototype flagship store and retail brand in Stoke-on-Trent, which the firm hopes will broaden its appeal to consumers.
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Costa increases revenue by 20%
Costa Coffee increased its revenue by a fifth in the six months to 27 August 2009, as parent company Whitbread revealed a strong set of figures.Sales were up 20.6% to £155.4m (2008/09: £128.9m) for the chain, with pre-exceptional operating profit up 72.6% to £12.6m (2008/09: £7.3 million).Like-for-like sales increased 2.5%, ...
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Places available at BB roundtable
British Baker is holding a round-table, The Big Bakery Debate: Saturated Fat and Calories Consultation, on Wednesday 21 October at the Landmark Hotel, London, and is keen to hear from industry representatives who would like to attend.
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Fine Lady Bakeries confirms plan for northern base
Fine Lady Bakeries has announced plans to build a £20 million bakery in Newton Heath, east Manchester. Planning permission has been submitted for the site, which would become Fine Lady’s northern base.Joe Street, managing director of the Banbury-based company, said the east Manchester location would offer excellent transport links both ...
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Breakthrough for bread shelf-life
A breakthrough method to increase the shelf-life of bread by up to 14 days has been licensed to food ingredients company Puratos. Food scientists at University College Cork (UCC) developed the method, which has now been patented, using lactic acid bacteria. Puratos, which supplies the baking and confectionery industry worldwide, ...
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Less salt, more taste?
A Nottingham company claims to have discovered a way of modifying salt, to provide more taste from smaller quantities.Eminate Limited’s product Soda-Lo 20 could potentially help bakers achieve lower salt targets in their products without compromising on taste, it is claimed.“Looking at a level of 2% salt in a loaf ...
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Wrights unveils trial store
Wrights has unveiled a prototype flagship store and retail brand in Stoke-on-Trent, which the firm hopes will broaden its appeal to consumers.The design, created by Dollar Rae, comes complete with a new corporate identity and colours alongside its ‘Freshly baked and ready to go’ sales message.The new outlet, which started ...
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Costa announces revenue rise
Costa Coffee increased its revenue by a fifth in the six months to 27 August 2009, as parent company Whitbread revealed a strong set of figures.
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Fine Lady Bakeries confirms plan for northern base
Fine Lady Bakeries has announced plans to build a £20m bakery in Newton Heath, east Manchester. Planning permission has been submitted for the site, which would become Fine Lady’s northern base.
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Next issue 23 October
lWhen Sylvia met DavidBB editor Sylvia Macdonald grills Tory leader David Cameron at flour miller FWP Matthews’ base in the CotswoldslIBAWe report from the German bakery exhibition to find out the latest machinery and ingredients news in EuropelBakers’ ReviewThe latest legal and business updates and advice from the National Association ...
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Coffee Republic seeks prime sites across UK
Coffee Republic is on the look-out for 20 new retail sites, only months after being rescued from administration.
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Allied faces potential redundancies
Allied Bakeries could make up to 40 workers redundant at its Liverpool site after failing to boost its morning goods business.
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Ulrick & Short cuts sat fats
Clean-label, functional ingredients supplier Ulrick & Short has been working on improvements to its fat replacer Delyte.
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FSA’s latest anti-salt drive angers baking industry
By Georgi Gyton Bakers across the country are up in arms over the new Food Standards Agency (FSA) campaign, which aims to educate consumers on the ’hidden salt’ in foods such as bread, sandwiches and pizza and urges them to choose products with the lowest salt levels.
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In the Archives
Attention is drawn to the fact that the minister of transport has made an order prohibiting, as from 26 August, the use on any highway by an unauthorised person of any vehicle painted to resemble a camouflaged vehicle in the service of the armed forces.
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Tan Y Castell gets on board with Arriva
Pembrokeshire bakery Tan Y Castell Welshcakes has struck a deal with Arriva Trains to supply its ’Welshcakes Snack Pack’ on board all the company’s trains across Wales.
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Brand clinic: Visual brand ID - science, not art
Don Williams, CEO of brand specialist Pi Global, continues his series looking at the secrets of building a strong brand No one in their right mind thinks that a trip to a busy supermarket is fun. The purchase decision point is where the brand identity and packaging of fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) have to work harder than any other medium in the communication mix: right next to competition; 24/7; tiny little canvases in a sea of at least 50,000 ’noisy’ SKUs.
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NewsIn the market for... stone-baked campagne baguette
The ancient concept of leavened dough dates back at least to the Egyptians, writes consultant baker Wayne Caddy.
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Northern lights on bakers
Bakers from up and down the land flocked to Manchester for Bakers’ Fair, to glean some crucial tips in readiness for the run-up to Christmas. Machinery, ingredients, drinks, packaging and software systems suppliers were on hand to offer advice on the latest developments in the trade, while a line-up of industry experts took to the stage.
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Bakery manufacturers on the up but retail slides
Despite the economic downturn, there has been an increase in the number of bakery manufacture businesses, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).