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Shop planning refusal could cost Costa
Costa Coffee could be forced to close one of its shops, following a planning appeal in Beverley. The coffee chain opened a store in the Yorkshire market town last year, without permission to change the use of a former shoe shop - a Grade 2 Listed Building in the town’s ...
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Cupcake Week hits Facebook
With preparations for National Cupcake Week (NCW) now under way, why not get involved by linking to our official NCW Facebook page? You’re welcome to post pictures of your outlandishly impressive cupcake creations, recipe suggestions, cupcake-themed shop fronts or messages of support. National Cupcake Week is set to take place ...
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Mono stages display day
Swansea-based machinery firm Mono Equipment hosted an open day at Miller’s Vanguard’s Training facility in Bury earlier this month, to display the latest machinery, designed to increase efficiency, productivity and profit. Among the exhibitors were Mono Equipment, Bakon Food Equipment and Rondo Doge. Mono was promoting its ...
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Mecaplastic seals deal
Mecaplastic offers a range of sandwich filling and sealing machines, enabling businesses to select the right capacity for their requirements. Size adjustments can also be made on Mecaplastic cardboard sandwich-pack filling machines simply and quickly. The Mecapack 470 and 700 models enable automatic simultaneous adjustment in just 30 seconds. ...
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Dibas decks out its offer
Dibas is promoting its deck oven for establishments that bake-off snacks and pastries, but which also want to serve pizzas as part of their offering. The EBO Deck Oven, manufactured by Dibas, is distributed in the UK by CBES Food Systems. It allows up to three baking chambers to be ...
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Sollich keeps an even temper
Sollich is promoting the Minitemper 100 FD to add real chocolate to your product, for bakers aiming to enhance sales appeal and profitability. Sollich said it was important to use real chocolate, despite the fact the cocoa butter present makes it more challenging to handle compared to compound chocolate. "Real ...
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Morrisons to extend local flour scheme
Morrisons plans to extend a regional scheme, selling bread made from flour milled in the local area. Bakery trading manager Andy Clegg said the concept had worked well in East Anglia, Yorkshire and Wessex, and that stores in other parts of the country would launch locally milled bread later this ...
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McCambridge site faces an uncertain future
The future of McCambridge’s Bradford bakery is in doubt as bosses consider a proposal to close the cake manufacturing site at Thornton Road. The McCambridge Group has met with the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and has entered a period of formal consultation, expected to last a minimum ...
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Finsbury sees investments hit profit line
Finsbury Foods’ profit has taken a severe hit, with adjusted pre-tax profit down 45% to £1.8m for the six months to 31 December 2008. Pre-tax profit stood at £0.2m compared to £1.6m in 2008, despite increasing sales in its bread and free-from divisions. The cakes, breads and morning goods manufacturer ...
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Finsburys’ profit is hit hard
Finsbury Foods’ profit has taken a severe hit, with adjusted pre-tax profit down 45% to £1.8m for the six months to 31 December 2008. Pre-tax profit stood at £0.2m compared to £1.6m in 2008, despite increasing sales in its bread and free-from divisions.The cakes, breads and morning goods manufacturer saw ...
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Showgirl glitz
Designing somebody’s birthday cake and creating sugarpaste figures to go on it is all in a day’s work for cake decorator Leanne Tang, but this doesn’t mean it all comes easily. The winner of Renshaw-sponsored Celebration Cake Maker of the Year at the Baking Industry Awards 2008, says one of ...
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Jus-Rol takes new shapes
Jus-Rol is expanding its frozen pastry shapes range with the launch of a new shortcrust oval. The company is promoting the new shape as a convenient way to top pies, but it can also be used as an individual pie base. The new shapes are available in 14cm x 11cm ...
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Mouthing off
"Fruit was flown in from Paris daily, meat had to come all the way from Yorkes Butchers in Dundee, while the incorrect choice of biscuits for the executives’ afternoon tea was a disciplinary offence. The mistaken inclusion of pink wafers on one occasion led to a stern memo headlined ’Rogue ...
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Super Nintoaster
Stop the Week is happy to say that it has a proud history of tracking advances in toaster-based technology, culminating in last year’s top-10 series of toasters, which ranged from waterproof toasters to toaster printers. So it is with great delight that we bring to your attention ...
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Strength in numbers
How do you grow in a recession? That was one of the interesting topics discussed at the recent British Confectioners’ Association meeting in Gloucester. Most of the 60 members are retail bakers as well as confectioners and the word ’grow’ is certainly a different angle to ’cope’ - a word ...
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Seeds pricing
Pine nuts: Prices have remained firm since our last report and are now trading some 15% higher than in December. Apart from the volatile currency, availability from China this season seems very sporadic, with a reduced supply to China from Russia and Siberia. Pumpkin seeds: These have also stayed firm ...
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Report
Imports of macadamia nuts are experiencing year-on-year growth, according to the latest figures published, with the baking industry also seeing increased use of the nut. In 2008, macadamia nut imports rose by 45%, from 500 to 737 tonnes. However, consumption of these nuts is thought to be much higher, as ...
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Seasonal seller
Sweet mild peppers, sometimes referred to as bell peppers or capsicums, are related to chillies. They are available in a variety of colours, which denotes how ripe the pepper is. Starting with green, it ripens through yellow and orange to red. The red pepper is the sweetest tasting. There are ...
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Yazoo shake-up
Milkshake brand Yazoo has unveiled a new £3.5m television and outdoor advertising campaign, which forms part of the brand’s ongoing mission to drive growth in the UK flavoured milk category. Manufactured by FrieslandCampina, the Yazoo brand has been repositioned to appeal more to adults, alongside its core audience of mums ...
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In Short
== Cupcakes sponsor == British Baker is proud to announce that ingredients supplier Puratos is to be a sponsor of National Cupcake Week. The week-long celebration runs from 14-19 September 2009, and is designed to boost bakers’ profits through the sale of cupcakes, as well as celebrating the ...