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Premier announces Hovis bread sales up
Premier Foods’ half-year results show that sales of Hovis were up 17% and market share has increased to 26.3% – its highest level in two years, said the firm. But Premier’s Hovis division, which comprises its baking, milling and frozen pizza base operations, saw turnover drop to £372.4m, ...
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Greggs sees profit boost, despite wet weather
Greggs has announced a “robust performance” for the first half of the year, with pre-tax profit up 7.3% to £16.5m.The bakery retail chain saw sales increase by 4.4% to £312m, with like-for-like growth up 1.5%. Operating profit stood at £16.3m – an increase of 8.9%, for the 26 weeks to ...
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Crantock’s pasty sales rocket
Crantock Bakery has announced it has been doing a roaring trade on Cornish pasties during the recession, with sales up 30% on last year.With turnover currently at £15 million, chairman and managing director Nick Ringer said the company has had its best year.“We’ve never been busier,” he added.The Indian Queens-based ...
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Greggs sees profit boost, despite wet weather
Greggs has announced a “robust performance” for the first half of the year, with pre-tax profit up 7.3% to £16.5m. The bakery retail chain saw sales increase by 4.4% to £312m, with like-for-like growth up 1.5%. Operating profit stood at £16.3m – an increase of 8.9%, for the 26 weeks to 27 June, 2009.
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Gail’s announces fifth shop opening
London-based artisan bakery Gail’s has announced plans to open a new shop in Queen’s Park, hot on the heels of its latest store opening in Clapham last month. The new outlet, Gail’s fifth, is due to open in November and will have its own unique interior, as with all other Gail’s shops.
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Book your place at BIA now!
Tickets for the Baking Industry Awards 2009 have almost gone, so make sure you book your place now to avoid disappointment.
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Premier announces Hovis bread sales up
Premier Foods’ half-year results show that sales of Hovis were up 17% and market share has increased to 26.3% – its highest level in two years, said the firm.
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Investec predicts “a decent H1” for Premier Foods
In advance of Premier Foods’ half-year (H1) results, to be announced 5 August, international specialist banking group Investec has said it is expecting “a decent H1” and has made a “modest upgrade to FY forecasts”.
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M&S supplier Uniq reports increased losses
European chilled convenience food group Uniq has announced increased losses for the six months to 30 June 2009, despite comments from the firm that it is progressing well.
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Crunch time
When consumers buy lunch from a high-street bakery or sandwich shop, how many of them buy a drink and a snack to go alongside a pasty or roll? OK, an exact figure isn’t available, but it’s a lot. Looking to other retailers that have considerable success with the lunchtime trade, ...
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Are you one of our BIA09 finalists? Find out below
British Baker is delighted to announce the finalists for this year’s Baking Industry Awards. The 1930s-themed event, on Tuesday 8 September at the Park Lane Hilton in London, will be hosted by much-loved comedian Ronnie Corbett.On judging the Baker of the Year award, sponsored by Vande-moortele, Stephen Bickmore, UK commercial ...
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Fit for purpose: Part 1 - Evolution
== Richard Hamilton of Agile Space begins a step-by-step guide to revamping your shops ==Common sense plays a huge part in brand evolution and store design and, for so many businesses, is the missing link.For many food and beverage retailers, times are tough and for some, their worst fears ...
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Next issue 14 August
== lTop 50 update ==We revisit the Top 10 retailers in our yearly list of the biggest high street retailer chains that sell bakery products== lBusiness Building ==While corporate social responsibility may have dropped down the lists of concerns, we look at how one business has been ...
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60-second sales pitch
== So what’s the product? ==Torrax XD2 - from the Muntons range of ultra-dark malt extracts, made from roasted malt extracted into a water-soluble viscous liquid, which retains the characteristics of the roasted malt. The result is an intensive, ultra-dark brown extract, made just from barley.== Why should bakers use ...
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Mixed abilities
== WENDEL ==What’s new?Danish machinery firm Diosna has developed a new kneading tool for its Wendel Mixer, distributed in the UK by Benier. This allows bakers to process batches of dough requiring just one-third of the mixing bowl’s capacity. Anything from 160kg to 600kg of dough can now be processed ...
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JJ Beano’s acquires savoury supplier
Coffee and snacks vending machine company JJ Beano’s has acquired savoury pastry firm, Devon Savouries, and has three new contracts in the pipeline.Beano’s provides vending machines at service stations across the UK and Bath-based Devon Savouries is one of its key suppliers. The firm supplies ’hot bakes’, including pies, pastries ...
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Boys act on impulse
The Fabulous Bakin’ Boys has revamped its impulse range, working on more eye-catching packaging design and recipe reformulation, with artificial additives taken out and more inclusions put in. The range features: Fabulous Flapjacks - made with jumbo oats; Marvelous Muffins, in Sticky Toffee, Double Choc, Cherry and Blueberry varieties; Caramel ...
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Belting answer for Hovis
Conveyor belt manufacturer Ammeraal Beltech, has been working with Hovis on techno-logical developments for the bread baking industry, which have led to the development of Ultrasync - a new conveyor belt.Hovis had been working with Ammeraal Beltech to provide improved belt performance on a major project to upgrade the dough ...
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In the BB archives
When doctors and dentists condemn white bread, they are told occasionally by bakers that they do not know what they are talking about; when faddists cry out for "mother’s" bread, attempts are made to show them that baker’s bread is the superior product. At all times, whatever the complaint, the ...
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Asda seeks out regional suppliers
Asda is looking to work with "iconic" regional bakery firms to roll out branded bakery concessions in stores across the UK.Cornish bakery Rowe’s opened the first of these concessions in the Asda store in St Austell, Cornwall, earlier this month, selling a range of hot and ambient savouries.Roy Clark, Asda’s ...