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Welcome to the baking industry awards 2009
Many congratulations to all the winners and finalists in this year’s Baking Industry Awards!In the following pages, we celebrate your talents and contribution to the industry.It is essential to keep raising standards, keep striving for the best, boost innovation and improve levels of service. It is what these awards set ...
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Next issue 25 September
lBIA09A view from the Awards night, as we reveal the highlights of the industry’s premier eventlSupporting craft bakersA special supplement featuring advice from successful craft businesses on how to ride out the recessionlTeaMore and more speciality teas are emerging on to the market, as operators look to differentiate their products, ...
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the achievement in bakery training award
Winner: Robert PashleySenior assistant bakery managerCoopland & Son (Scarborough)North YorkshireBefore joining Cooplands, Robert Pashley worked in craft bakeries, with particular experience in hand-moulded breads and patisserie. His new employer encouraged him to take his NVQ Level 2 in bakery, his assessors and trainers qualifications and a Certificate of Education. ...
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UBUK adds baked bites
United Biscuits UK (UBUK) has launched a new range of snack crackers Jacob’s Crack’o’Bites. The snack bags are available in 25g packs and come in Cheese, Sour Cream & Chive and Barbecue flavours.The crackers are thin and crispy and are baked, not fried. They contain no artificial colours or ...
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ADM brings in new mix
ADM has launched a new Cupcake Mix and Fondant Icing Mix in time for bakers to prepare for National Cupcake Week. Bakers only need to add cake margarine, egg and water to the mix and products can then be topped with the Fondant Icing Mix.The cupcake mix can also be ...
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Giles Foods’ investment aims to double turnover
Giles Foods will double production at its Milton Keynes factory next year by opening a second unit next to its Pain Artisan bakery.The new unit, which will increase total production space at the site to over 9,000sq m, will be dedicated to garlic bread and dough ball production, with four ...
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Allied Bakeries reports upbeat results
Higher margins at Allied Bakeries should help parent company Associated British Foods (ABF) post positive full-year results.In an update prior to its expected announcement in November, ABF reported that operational improvements had boosted margins, while its grocery division had achieved good revenue in the second half of the year to ...
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Malt mooted as alternative to low-salt
Bakers looking for ways to reduce salt in bread are being offered an alternative to bland low-salt options.Hopped Spraymalt Light a product made from malt and hops, spraydried into a fine powder is already used in the brewing industry, but malted ingredients manufacturer Mun-tons has discovered it works ...
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In the BB archives
The decision to drop the word "bloomer" from the name of the London Protection Society’s bread class at the Islington Exhibition is no doubt a good one. The loaf required is now to be described as "a crusty long loaf, baked on the oven bottom in steam". The competitor has ...
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artisanal bread product of the year
Winner: Organic Wild WhiteHobbs House Bakery, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire"The Wild White is a personal favourite," says Sam Wells, production director at Hobbs House Bakery. "It tastes like proper bread should."The 800g sourdough loaf was a huge hit with the judges too, who cited its "total simplicity and perfection" as the ...
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Bread tastes to be formally assessed
A newly formed association, the National Organisation of Bread Tasters, is due to attend the SIAB exhibition in Italy from 22-26 May next year, where it will reveal plans for courses on the sensory assessment of bread.Founded by Walter Cricrì, an agronomist and sensorial analyst, and formed in conjunction with ...
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Honeyrose scoops up Greenwich Cakes assets
Honeyrose Bakery has bought all the unencumbered assets and equipment of London baker Greenwich Cakes, following the latter’s voluntary liquidation.London-based organic handbaker Honeyrose acquired bakery production, packing and office equipment. MD Lise Madsen said it could offer great value to existing Greenwich Cakes customers, who, in most cases and for ...
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SALSA assurance proves popular with bakers
A food safety accreditation scheme for small, local food producers, which is recognised by the supermarkets and foodservice distributors, is proving particularly popular among bakery firms.Set up in 2007, the Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA) scheme currently has 85 members from the bakery sector, 34 of which have received ...
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Premier Foods to look into attitudes to bread
Premier Foods is to study why shoppers are binning so much bread.The Hovis manufacturer will team up with Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to research consumer behaviour and attitudes around buying, storage and usage habits. Findings will be used to develop a targeted approach to help reduce bread waste.Neil ...
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british baker special award for services to the industry
Winner: Colin LomaxRank HovisThis year’s winner of the British Baker Special Award for Services to the Industry is known to many because he has given time, talents and support to every sector of bakery. Colin Lomax of Rank Hovis is renowned for encouraging students, helping craft, plant and in-store bakers, ...
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THe customer focus award
Winner: Burns the BreadGlastonbury, SomersetThis 26-year-old business operates three shops in and around Glastonbury and serves a few wholesale clients. During the winter, Burns runs a weekly showcase programme. "I think it’s a unique way of promoting ourselves; it demonstrates our products to groups like the WI, Brownies and the ...
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the craft business award
Winner: The Bread FactoryHendon, London"Many of our staff are ’lost people’, who have wandered out of a business background and fallen in love with great bread made by wonderful bakers," says Tom Molnar, co-managing director of The Bread Factory. This combination of business acumen and pure craft enchanted the judges, ...
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the innovation award
Winner: Genius Gluten Free Loaf, United Central Bakeries, Bathgate, EdinburghIt was the incredibly strong consumer emotions attached to Genius bread which made it a winner for the judges. Described by commercial director Paddy Cronin as "the first fresh gluten-free bread", the 400g unsliced loaf can be used as ordinary bread; ...
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Baker of the Year’s firm lands new Tesco deal
Cornish craft bakery WC Rowe has sealed a deal to supply Tesco stores nationwide with scones under the Tesco Finest brand.WC Rowe, whose MD Alan Pearce is the BIA09 Baker of the Year (see pg 4), already supplies Tesco stores in the south-west region with own-brand baked goods, but this ...
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baker of the year
Winner: Alan PearceManaging directorWC Rowe, Penryn, Cornwall"I live and breathe bakery, and my motivation is always to improve," says Alan Pearce, and it was this enthusiasm and passion for the industry that so impressed the judges.Pearce served his hands-on four-year apprenticeship at Rowe’s, before becoming a director and eventual MD. ...