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Maple Leaf price-fixing inquiry continues
Canada Bread Company, the parent company of the UK’s biggest bagel supplier Maple Leaf, is continuing its investigation into allegations that an employee at its UK bakery operations, Maple Leaf Bakery, may have sought to influence the pricing of a competitor, Mr Bagel.These allegations have led to the suspension of ...
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Stacking up the cookies
Sugden, which specialises in hot plate baking equipment, has launched the Forpak ’Grouper’ Stacker Model GS range, following the formation of a strategic partnership with the Forpak Division of US-based company MultiSource.The GS Stacker creates and counts vertical product stacks, which are then fed onto a continuous conveyer that can ...
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Subway introduces value menu for cost-conscious
Sandwich chain Subway is to launch a value menu in March, targeted at credit crunch- conscious consumers.The range will include cheese toast, meatballs, soup and filled wraps, as well as new varieties of Subway’s signature submarine rolls, development agent James Fleck told British Baker."We believe we are recession-resistant in that ...
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La Crème expands its repertoire
South Wales-based La Crème Patisserie & Catering Co plans to expand its retail and wholesale operations, having completed the purchase of a new factory unit on the Baglan Moors in Neath Port Talbot.Directors Siân and Ian Hindle hope the new unit, the La Crème Centre of Excellence, will be fully ...
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CSM slashes workforce at two of its plants
Bakery product supplier, CSM has announced an overall reduction in its workforce, with a total of 125 full-time employee redundancies.The jobs cuts have taken place at its factories in Wirral, UK, and Aartselaar, Belgium, and make up a total of 30% of the workforce across the two sites.CSM said ...
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Scrummie deal for Northern
Matthew Walker is to launch a new sponge pudding range in Tesco and Sainsbury’s. The Scrummie puddings from the Northern Foods-owned business consist of five varieties, each topped with a different sauce.The puddings can be microwaved in 90 seconds and will be the first branded ambient pudding range launched in ...
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Recipe: Galette des Rois
By craft baker Christophe BlondIn France, January is the month bakers make a traditional ’Galette des Rois’, using some puff pastry dough and "almond cream". The ’Galette’ is sold with a crown, given to the person who discovers a figurine, which the baker has placed inside the Galette.The shelf-life of ...
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Firm keeps lid on hazardous dusts
Manufacturer Dustcontrol UK is offering a range of air cleaners and vacuum cleaning systems for the bakery market, to guard against the dangers of airborne particles to bakers’ health.For example, suction casing can be placed at each area where flour is used, so it doesn’t escape any further into ...
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Warburtons’ Easter loaf
Warburtons’ Hot Cross Bun Loaf is to feature on the shelves of retailers once more from January. It will be available in a 400g format, made with sultanas and currants within sweet and mildly spiced glazed bread."Seasonal products such as the Hot Cross Bun Loaf help to build interest within ...
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Exchange rate hits ingredients prices
Bakers are facing a sharp increase in the price of ingredients and equipment imported from the Continent, as the slump in the value of the pound bites.Since November, the value of sterling against the euro has fallen from £1.25 to close to parity - a 20% drop - forcing importers ...
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Food execs sidelining green issues
Environmental and corporate social responsibilty (CSR) issues have plummeted down the agenda as the UK’s leading food executives turn their sights on dealing with the economic downturn.According to a new report, based on interviews with over 250 executives from across the food supply chain, sustainability and environmental issues went from ...
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Nutrixo offers to purchase Premier firms
Premier Foods has confirmed it has received an offer for its Le Pain Croustillant and Sofrapain businesses from French company Nutrixo, parent of Moul-Bie and Délifrance UK. Nutrixo is partly owned by farming co-operatives and partly by its own employees.The offer is "for a cash consideration of approximately £8m on ...
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Impress focuses on quality
Independently-run firm Impress Sandwiches has launched its new range in response to an increasing demand for premium quality and added-value sandwich products from catering and retail operators.The line consists of 70 sandwiches, wraps, ciabatta, sub rolls, savoury muffins, giant croissants and paninis. Items come in 100% biodegradable cardboard wedges.Impress supplies ...
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Future view
"At the moment, things haven’t slowed down that much in terms of basic food sales and petrol is cheaper than it was six months ago. From a general trade point of view, we have to be careful not to talk ourselves down too much. We have to keep positive and ...
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Future view
"Against the background of a recession and acute financial problems, I would like to see a radical change in attitude within the banking industry towards bakers in particular. A greater understanding of the problems faced by bakers and a greater willingness to lend are needed, and I hope the many ...
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Get redundancy right
According to a recent survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and KPMG, employers who were holding off making redundancies have reconsidered their position as a result of deteriorating economic conditions.Twenty-six per cent of responding employers reported having contingency plans to make new or further redundancies in the ...
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In the market for... healthy living
By Wayne CaddyWell, it’s certainly no coincidence that, on the back of numerous New Year’s resolutions made to strive towards healthier lifestyles in 2009, we may have a boost to help us along.Change4Life is the kickstart of a major campaign launch by the Department of Health. The campaign is a ...
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A quest to invest
CSM’s new Innovation Centre (IC) is all about... well, innovation. But what issues will the bakery supplier be looking at when it comes to long-standing products, such as cookies, brownies and doughnuts and how they can be developed? "Everybody knows there are doughnut rings and ball doughnuts, and everybody knows ...
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Mouthing off
"Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time. It’s not fair to my children. How can a name be offensive?"- Heath Campbell from New Jersey grumbles - somewhat misguidedly, we feel - when his local bakery refuses to decorate a birthday cake with the name of his three-year-old ...
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Reporting in New Year, new opportunity
After a difficult second half of 2008, I know I’m not the only one hoping for a better year ahead. Unfortunately, it looks like the economy will be getting worse before it gets better. That means more tough times ahead for FPB members.The FPB runs a helpline for members to ...