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Impress Sandwiches’ new range
Independently run company, 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 new menu consists of 70 sandwiches, wraps, ciabatta, sub rolls, savoury muffins, giant croissants and panini’s, which are available under its Impressively Premium, Deeply Impressive and Simply Impressive ranges.
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At the show...
DCA Kerry will be showcasing the exciting new Sanomat fresh cream machine, which has the dual innovations of being a self-creaming system as well as being self-cleaning. "It basically aerates fresh cream and does away with manual, open-bowl mixing," explains Robert Forster of Kerry. "Historically, cream machines have tended to ...
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Apprenticeship funding of £10m made available
The baking industry could benefit from new government plans to make over £10m of funding available to businesses, with the launch of a trial to develop Apprenticeship Expan-sion Programmes.The trials will be delivered through the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and funding of £10m will be available over ...
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News round-up 2008
== January ==* Greggs, now headed by Ken McMeikan, comes out on top in British Baker’s annual Top 50 bakery retailers list, with 1,368 UK outlets. It beats Subway, which comes in second with 1,020 shops.* Asda cuts artificial colours and flavours from all of its 9,000 own-label products after ...
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CCE picks up Abbey Well
Coca-Cola Great Britain has added Abbey Well to its portfolio, with the acquisition of Waters & Robson Holdings.Abbey Well, sourced in Morpeth, Northumberland, will be bottled by Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE). The Abbey Well site and its employees will be transferred to CCE on completion of the sale, according ...
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Mad about Muffins
Cheese and onion - it’s one of those classic flavour combinations that never goes out of fashion. Whether in bread, as a flavouring for crisps, a sandwich or a pasty filling, putting cheese and onion together just works.But how about as a muffin flavour? Would anyone ever choose to buy ...
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NSA steering group achieves six-month target
The steering group of the National Skills Academy (NSA) for Bakery has achieved its first six-month target, said Jonathan Cooper, business development manager of the NSA.Its aims were industry representation, agreeing the training needs of the industry, and identifying a bakery champion, named as Campden BRI, to co-ordinate the development ...
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Administrator sought for Megans as Ferrari’s closes
Megans Bakery in Hirwaun, South Wales is seeking to appoint an administrator, director Steve Fogo has told British Baker.The company filed for admini-stration on Tuesday 9 December, but Fogo said "it is too early too tell" if potential administrator, Resolve Partner, would be hopeful for a buyer for the firm. ...
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Quiznos admits closures as credit crunch bites
More than a third of Quiznos’ sandwich shops in the UK have closed in the past year, due to the current financial crisis, leaving the company a long way short of its ambitious plan to open 200 franchise stores.According to British Baker’s Top 50 Bakery Retailers poll, the US franchise ...
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Aryzta enjoys all-round increases
Bakery supplier Aryzta has seen its revenue increase across all its divisions, with overall group revenue up a total of 31.8%, according to the company’s first-quarter interim management statement.Within its European Food division, group revenue has increased 4.5% and stands at E298.7m (£259.1m).Its Food North American ...
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The Alternative Baking Industry Awards
== Accidental Bread Thieves of the Year ==Partners in crime Donna Hayes and Benjamin Jorgensen were put behind bars after staging a raid at the Cuckoo Restaurant in Melbourne. However, the robbery didn’t go according to plan as the pair mistook a $5 bag of bread rolls for a ...
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Appointment
Dave SimmonsBells of LazonbyDave Simmons has been appointed to the board of family-owned craft bakery Bells of Lazonby as director with responsibilities for finance and business systems.Simmons joined the business in April 2007 and has played a key role in integrating the company’s computer systems and providing better access ...
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Bakers avoid the worst of Irish contamination
British bakers and manufactu-rers have largely been unaffected by the Irish pork contamination issue, but a number of pork products have been recalled as a precautionary measure.Frank Hayes, from Kerry Foods in Ireland said: "Our production in Ireland is very much centred around the Irish market, so by and large ...
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BakeMark parent opens innovation centre
CSM has officially opened its Innovation Center in Merksem, Belgium, which will focus on the latest developments in bakery margarines. It follows the opening last month of the company’s Innovation Center for frozen and bakery products at BakeMark’s site in Bromborough, Wirral, and is the third of four European centres ...
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BakeMark’s Cool cookie
BakeMark UK is introducing another licensed cookie to its range with Nestlé. The Quality Street Matchmakers Cool Mint Cookie has an American-style soft bake texture and will join the likes of Nestlé Toffee Crisp Cookies, Nestlé Rolo Cookies and Nestlé Milkybar Mini Cookies.Each case of the new cookies contains 32 ...
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Bakery chain plans UK growth
The UK franchise operator for international eat-in bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien (LPQ) is planning to open four new London sites over the next few months, two of them before March.Village du Pain, which owns the UK and Ireland master franchise, has 10 stores around London. A Hampstead outlet is ...
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Waterfields scoops up Merseyside bakery chain
Waterfields has bought Pimblett’s 10 shops in the St Helens’ area of Merseyside out of administration, after the craft bakery chain went out of business at the beginning of the month.Around 65 jobs have been saved in the deal, which takes Waterfields’ retail estate to 49 shops, but Pimblett’s central ...
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Culture corner: book review
Bread - A Slice Of HistoryBy John Marchant, Bryan Reuben & Joan Alcock, 240 pages£12.99 Published by The History PressThis book is anything but a slice of history, it’s a loaf at least. It takes the reader through the story of bread, from prehistoric and biblical times to the ...
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’Real’ bread campaign starts
Thousands of people have pledged their support to Sustain’s Real Bread Campaign, which promotes bread that is made without additives and has been fermented for at least four hours.The brainchild of author and baker Andrew Whitley, the campaign officially launched on 26 November, with a website featuring a ’real’ bread ...