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Trade snapshot: National Craft Bakers’ Week
If raising the profile of the local baker and highlighting the crucial role of bakers in the community was the aim of the inaugural National Craft Bakers’ Week, then we have to say, ’mission accomplished’! Bakers up and down the land got involved in the profile-raising fun, either through ...
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National bakery skills training is a step closer
Major steps have been taken towards a pan-industry qualification in underpinning bakery skills, with four leading firms signing up to a pilot scheme that launches in September. The pilot has been developed by an industry-wide employer-led bakery steering group that represents craft, plant and supermarket bakers, alongside the National ...
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Village Bakery clinches North Wales Tesco deal
The Village Bakery, based in Minera, near Wrexham, is to see nine of its lines stocked in 11 Tesco stores in North Wales, following a deal with the retailer. The lines on offer include white and brown bread, barm cakes, fruit scones and tea cakes, and the firm has said ...
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O’Briens seeks to sell leases as economy bites
The UK arm of Irish sandwich chain O’Briens, comprising 109 franchised outlets, has been put into administration in an effort to renegotiate rents and restructure the business.
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A bridge too far
Trying to fit a square pie into a round hole is all well and good if your intended aperture is a mouth, and not an ill- fitting retail concept. Square Pie’s star was rising throughout the past decade, nimbly transferring its pie and mash food-to-go brand into shopping centres, markets, ...
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British grates
Artisan Biscuits has launched a range of cheese biscuits under the name Grate Britain. The all-British range consists of Cheddar Biscuits, made with Wookey Hole Cave-Aged Cheddar; Stilton Biscuits, made with Long Clawson Blue Stilton; and Smoked Cheese Biscuits, made with Dorset Red. The cheese is freshly grated for every ...
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Caught in the web
* Ingenious bread bags that make stale bread fresh. Or do they? tinyurl.com/lqtugk * You can compact discarded bread crusts into logs to use as fuel... tinyurl.com/mquzyd * The US-based topless café that Stop the Week wrote about recently has burned to the ground... tinyurl.com/qdff43 * But another risqué café ...
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Little Venice invites DIY celebration
London-based Little Venice Cake Company has signed a deal to supply 204 Sainsbury’s stores across the country with celebration cakes that can be finished by consumers at home. Available in two sizes (5in at £9.99 and 8in at £14.99), the fruit cakes are hand-decorated with almond marzipan, simple white icing ...
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Constant shows sensitivity
A new metal detector has been launched by Constant Instruments, offering sensitivity up to 30% higher than earlier models. The THS/MS21 metal detector, suitable for use in bakeries, can detect contaminant particles at high speed, even for difficult highly conductive products, such as those containing high levels of salt or ...
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Gerald takes quality control
Applied Principles has launched a new paperless quality management system called Gerald, designed with bakeries and small manufacturers in mind. It eliminates huge amounts of paperwork, while giving real-time reporting, collation of trendable data, traceability, audit compliance and time- and cost-savings. The system features a personal digital assistant, with a ...
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Food for thought at Costa
Coffee is an addiction. As with many addictive substances, dabblers get the munchies. Not even a blood-letting recession has weaned hard-pressed cocoa-heads off their Jobseekers Allowance-busting £2.35 macchiato hit, and as such, coffee chains continue to be the dominant peddler of baked goods for caffeine junkies on the high ...
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Storm in a tea cup
Local papers up and down the country are the fuel that fires Stop the Week’s oven, and we salute the nation’s hacks who do the tireless task of breaking the stories that matter. So it is that we embark upon a journey out into the regions, this time alighting in ...
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Enter your cupcake now!
Time is running out to find the UK’s best cupcake (deadline 8 July), so enter our Cupcake Week competition, sponsored by Puratos, now! A panel of independent judges awaits your entries: l Baking guru Dan Lepard is The Guardian’s bakery writer, blogger and author of several well-respected books on ...
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A flair for festivals
Honeybuns’ cafe at Glastonbury has always been a good spot to shelter from the howling wind and rain, and dry out your boots before trench foot sets in, so bad has the weather been at Britain’s largest music festival for the past few years. This year, however, the Dorset-based cake ...
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Sandwich forum
MY: Nothing beats the "real thing" - if your counters look great and your products appetising, they should sell themselves. But we do use our menu boards to reinforce our products, with strong photographic imagery, and this helps to increase the appetite appeal. BA: Packaging and POS are all part ...
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Get to grips with granules
Ishida Europe has launched a new Cut-gate Weigher, designed for the weighing of granular products, such as sugar and salt or granules for hot and cold drinks. According to Ishida, the weigher is typically three times more accurate than conventional filling or dosing systems. Its gentle handling preserves the particle ...
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Roll sales suffer, but hot weather may help
The trend for making sandwiches at home to save on lunch bills, which has seen sales of sliced loaves soar, has not extended to bread rolls, which saw sales drop in the 12 weeks to 17 May. Figures from TNS Worldpanel show that sales of packaged plant rolls fell in ...
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Irwin’s takes Softee touch
Northern Irish-bakery Irwin’s has launched a new sliced white pan - Irwin’s Softee - in order to capitalise on the renewed growth in sliced white bread. It is packaged in a traditional wax wrapper and contains double the standard amount of Canadian wheat flour, which creates the softness, says the ...
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Small style from Melitta
Melitta has launched The Bar-Cube, a new bean-to-cup machine to fit onto the smallest of counter spaces. Measuring 430mm wide x 500mm deep x 465mm high, it can produce 150 espressos per hour and has 18 different menu settings. Two bean hoppers enable users to provide a choice of coffees ...
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Mouthing off
"When I told her the posh chocolate biscuits had been listed in the press, she retorted ’well, you don’t expect me to eat Family Circle under this kind of pressure do you?’ No, I don’t, because she has been bang on in her judgment and the way she has handled ...