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The soft touch
Walk into your average bakery outlet and, nine times out of 10, you’re confronted with a fridge full of familiar soft drinks courtesy of a well-known-manufacturer. And while these established products are often viewed as the prudent choice, it might be time to reassess your range. Not only can your ...
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Supported by...
? We are delighted to build on our strong relationships with the national associations and industry by getting behind National Craft Bakers’ Week, helping to design point-of-sale materials, posters and window stickers to promote the event in your shops. Visit the special website via www.bakeryinfo.co.uk to find out ...
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Winning ways
The clock is ticking on the 2009 Baking Industry Awards and the search is on again to find the baking industry’s high fliers and success stories. The awards, now in their 22nd year, recognise the hard work and passion of the people and companies that make the British baking industry ...
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In my world
Sorting through my grandmother’s bakery file with my pop, we came across a folder containing old documents and newspaper clippings. One item from the year dot was my great grandmother’s birth certificate, dated 1887, and the rank/profession of father is recorded as baker. That confirmed my heritage as being at ...
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Ireland holds off on folic acid fortification
Ireland’s food safety body has advised against the mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid.The implementation group on folic acid fortification said there would be no benefit to public health, because food manufacturers were now adding it to dairy spreads, fruit juices, milk, yoghurts, soups and cereal bars.England’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) now has the results of two studies looking at the effect of folic acid on cancer and heart disease, and is likely to make its recommendation following a committee meeting in June. It had previously agreed flour should be fortified, before being encouraged by the chief medical officer to consider more studies.
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Finsbury’s 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.
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Canada Bread drops inquiry
Canada Bread Company, the parent company of the UK’s biggest bagel supplier Maple Leaf Bakery, will take no further action following an internal investigation into allegations that an employee at its UK bakery operations may have sought to influence the pricing of a competitor. Lynda Kuhn, senior vice president, communications and consumer affairs, told British Baker that initial allegations made in a tabloid newspaper in December 2008 involving The Bagel Group - a company Maple Leaf had previously been in talks with to acquire - were unfounded and that no evidence had been supplied to substantiate the claims, despite requests.
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Market Insight
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Elisabeth the Chef cuts cartoon cake licence deal
Cake and dessert supplier Elisabeth the Chef has added a number of new cartoon character licences to its portfolio. Batman – in a new bright cartoon format - joins the line-up in a bid to capitalise on a new light-hearted animated series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which hits TV screens at the end of March.
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Proper Cornish turns up the heat
A pastie-maker is to become the first UK food firm to heat water using its food waste. Proper Cornish Food Company has spent £90,000 on a BioNova biodigestion plant – a cutting-edge system that transforms waste into a fuel – which will eventually power the hot water system in its ...
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Uncertain future for McCambridge’s Bradford site
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, which is expected to last ...
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Kingsmill ties in with Aardman
Kingsmill is to partner Aardman Animations, which produced the bakery-themed Wallace & Gromit film - A Matter of Loaf and Death - to mark its release onto DVD.The brand will be offering an on-pack token collect promotion, which will be available from 23 March across its Kingsmill Great Everyday, Love ...
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Costa launches ad campaign
Costa has launched its first advertising campaign in an effort to draw customers away from Starbucks. The ads, which claim that seven out of 10 people who see themselves as ‘coffee lovers’ preferred Costa’s cappuccino to that of its leading competitors, are based on results of recent blind testing, conducted ...
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Bagel Nash moves into sweet bakery
Leeds-based firm Bagel Nash is expanding its wholesale range after a successful trial of a number of new products in its retail outlets.The company, which produces 36 different varieties of bagels, has branched out into the sweet baked goods market with a new range of muffins and chocolate brownies.
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Pullins launches ‘oh goodie’ brand
Somerset-based Pullins Bakers launched a new brand - oh goodie - at food exhibition IFE09, which took place at London’s ExCeL centre this week. The oh goodie range consists of triple chocolate, sticky date & ginger, chocolate chunks and chewy butterscotch cookies, as well as desserts, all of which carry the tagline ‘naughty by nature’.
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Register for National Doughnut Week on new website
A new website has been launched for this year’s National Doughnut Week, which offers bakers the chance to increase profits and raise money for charity from the sale of doughnuts. Running from 9-16 May, the week, sponsored by BakeMark, raises money for the charity The Children’s Trust, which provides care ...
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Register for National Doughnut Week on new website
A new website has been launched for this year’s National Doughnut Week, which offers bakers the chance to increase profits and raise money for charity from the sale of doughnuts. Running from 9-16 May, the week, sponsored by BakeMark, raises money for the charity The Children’s Trust, which provides specific care and therapy for children with multiple disabilities.
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Your chance to shine, as we launch BIA 2009
British Baker is delighted to announce the launch of the 2009 Baking Industry Awards, to be held on Tuesday 8 September at the Park Lane Hilton in London. The evening, which features many different awards categories, will be a celebration of the industry’s achievements over the last year, as well ...