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Many column inches have been given over lately (in between swine flu and MPs’ expenses) to ’the demise of organics’. According to an oft-quoted TNS report, organics generally were down 1% despite spiralling inflation, while bread sales allegedly fell by 29%. Gloomy reading? As owner of a 100% organic bakery, ...
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Organic bread found to cause 25% less CO2 emissions
A new study has claimed that the environmental impact of the production, packaging and distribution of organic bread is far less than that of conventional bread, with organic bread emitting as much as a quarter less CO2 into the atmosphere.
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William Reed Business Media acquires bakeryandsnacks.com
Decision News Media (DNM), publisher of bakeryandsnacks.com and 16 other websites serving the international food, nutrition, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, has been acquired by British Baker’s publisher William Reed Business Media (WRBM).
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Lees to take legal action against vendors of Patisserie UK
Lees Foods has decided to take legal action against the people from whom it bought Patisserie UK - a specialist bakery business that went into administration in March under Lees’ ownership.Coatbridge-based Lees, which is known for its macaroons, tea-cakes and snowballs, said in a statement that, after taking legal advice, ...
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Finsbury Foods admits “potential offer” for sale of business
Finsbury Foods’ shares have shot up by around 5% following a preliminary approach regarding a potential offer for the company, but the moved to dampen speculation that a bid would be successful. The cake manufacturer said the approach “was exploratory in nature and the directors believe that there is considerable ...
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Aryzta’s growth shrinks in Europe
Zurich-based speciality bakery Aryzta has seen its Food Europe division shrink as growth falls by 1.4% in the nine months to 25 April 2009 Its Food North America and Food Developing Markets both experienced growth or 22.7% and 14.9% respectively, resulting in an overall growth of 5.7% for its food businesses.
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Aryzta’s growth shrinks in Europe
Zurich-based speciality bakery Aryzta has seen its Food Europe division shrink as growth falls by 1.4% in the nine months to 25 April 2009.Its Food North America and Food Developing Markets both experienced growth or 22.7% and 14.9% respectively, resulting in an overall growth of 5.7% for its food businesses. ...
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Irwin’s nabs Scottish deal with Asda
Portadown-based Howell House, the cakes and biscuits division of Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has secured a £250,000 deal to export its Howell’s Handmade Jammy Joeys cakes to 47 Asda stores in Scotland.The deal is the first time that Howell House has exported its products and is expected to boost total ...
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Pork Farms to display British Lion egg logo
Pork Farms has become the first major retail brand to display the British Lion egg products mark on-pack.The move follows the decision by the Nottingham-based manufacturer to use 100% British Lion egg products across its Scotch egg and snack egg range. The logo has been displayed on shell eggs for ...
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National Cupcake Week competition launched
British Baker is delighted to announce the launch of a cupcake cake-off competition in the run up to National Cupcake Week, which takes place from 14-19 September.British Baker and co-sponsors of National Cupcake Week, Puratos, welcome all professionals up and down the country to join in the fun by submitting ...
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Finsbury Foods admits “potential offer” for sale of business
Finsbury Foods’ shares have shot up by around 5% following a preliminary approach regarding a potential offer for the company. However, the company moved to dampen speculation that a bid would be successful.
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Irwin’s nabs Scottish deal with Asda
Portadown-based Howell House, the cakes and biscuits division of Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has secured a £250,000 deal to export its Howell’s Handmade Jammy Joeys cakes to 47 Asda stores in Scotland.
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Employers invited to discuss food and drink qualification
Employers have been invited to set the agenda for a new food and drink ‘excellence’ qualification, aimed at raising the bar on productivity and efficiency in the workplace.
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Pork Farms to display British Lion egg logo
Pork Farms has become the first major retail brand to display the British Lion egg products mark on-pack.
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Cake decoration company’s sales skyrocket
Warrington-based company Windsor CakeCraft has seen its internet sales increase 2,300% as the credit crunch encourages consumers to decorate their own celebration cakes.
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Northern Foods sees strong performance in bakery
Northern Foods announced a “strong performance” in its Bakery division in its full year results to 28 March 2009.
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FSA’s 2012 salt targets spark fresh controversy
By Patrick McGuiganThe publication of 2012 salt reduction targets this week failed to satisfy either side of the salt-in-bread debate, with anti-salt cam- paigners slamming them for being too lenient and plant bakers arguing that they will be "tech-nically impossible" to meet.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has set a 2012 ...
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Book Review: River Cottage Handbook No.3: Bread
By Daniel Stevens, introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall224 pages, Published by Bloomsbury, £14.99It’s rare that a book comes along that combines breadmaking and DIY, but here it is. Not content with offering a pretty thorough description of the breadmaking process and a range of classic bread recipes, Stevens goes one further ...
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Next issue 5 June
lConference report From farmers to hoteliers to chip shop owners to bakers, two eccentric entrepreneurs have the SAMB conference in the palms of their handslHot savouries We speak to suppliers to find out what’s hot and what’s not in food-to-go pastrieslPlant packaging The latest on packaging and sealing breakthroughs used ...
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Bakers gear up activity for Craft Bakers’ Week
Craft bakers up and down the country are gearing up for National Craft Bakers’ Week, with special promotions and bakery tours for schoolchildren planned.The week, which runs from 8-13 June, has been designed to promote ’The Shop That Never Sleeps’, and reinforce its importance in the local community.Beaney’s ...