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Costa cake comes out top
Costa Coffee has won the Best Quality Cake 2008 accolade at the Quality Food Awards for its Raspberry and Almond Bake.The Bake, which was shortlisted against Asda’s Extra Special Chocolate Cake and Asda’s Extra Special Victoria Sponge, was described by judges as an “excellent, moist cake with a great raspberry ...
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Three-way deal on raisins
California Raisins has teamed up with Dawsons Bakery and Asda for a Christmas giveaway. Dawsons recently won the contract to supply all 13 Asda and Walmart stores in the East Midlands with locally produced goods, a number of which contain California Raisins. The competition will run throughout these 13 stores, ...
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Real Good Food forecasts gloom
The Real Good Food Company has announced it predicts profit before taxation of around £0.5m in its full year results to 31 December. The company has also made the decision to relocate its London head office function to its Liverpool manufacturing site, as part of a series of cost-saving initiatives.Chief ...
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Warning on organic oats
The Soil Association has revealed that some batches of oats being sold in the UK as organic have been found to contain one or both of the pesticides Chlormequat and Glyphosate. Although these pesticides are commonly used in non-organic products, the levels present in the organic oats mean they can ...
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Ferrari’s goes into liquidation
South Wales-based Ferrari’s, has been put into liquidation, following advice from the company’s financial advisers. British Baker reported in October that the retail chain had been forced to close eight of its most under-performing stores due to the effects of the current economic climate.
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Firkins closes 20 shops as bank crisis hits home
A West Midlands bakery group has become the first bakery casualty of the banking crisis, after being hit by banks reducing credit.Firkins Bakery, headquartered in West Bromwich, has laid off 140 staff and shut 20 of its 53 stores. Managing director Ian Bolderston explained that "crippling overheads" ...
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Aldi plans Irish expansion drive
Discount supermarket Aldi is to expand in Ireland, with 35 new stores planned.The project, costing €350m, will see around 490 new jobs created in-store and around 160 at a second regional distribution centre, to be located in Mitchelstown, County Cork.The announcement came after Aldi’s Irish business reported a 20% ...
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European pastry specialist announces the arrival of Chocolate Praline Croissants
Bakehouse has announced the launch of a new Chocolate Praline Croissant for the foodservice industry. The product has a chocolate and hazelnut filling and is topped with chocolate and nibbed hazelnut.It has been developed to extend consumer choice and capitalise on the popular Viennoiserie market, which accounts for 5% ...
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Worker void appears as immigrants return home
Craft bakeries fear a massive skills shortage, as the flow of bakers from Eastern Europe dries up and those already here return home.With the fall in the value of the pound and the economic slowdown, the UK is less attractive to migrant workers such as bakers. In contrast, the Polish ...
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Asda opens up the doors to Great Britain for Irwin’s Irish Batch range
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s has achieved a 300-store distribution deal with Asda for its Irish Batch range.The deal, worth £250,000 annually, will see Irwin’s Irish Batch available in Great Britain for the first time, from this winter. The recipe was created over 40 years ago and is marketed in Northern ...
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Scottish firm moves into custom-built bakery
Scottish bakery Stephens plans to expand its chain of shops and fleet of snack vans after moving into a custom-built £4.5m bakery.Located on the outskirts of Dunfermline, the new 38,000sq ft site replaces Stephens’ previous 7,000sq ft premises in the town centre. Managing director André Sarafilovic told ...
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Bakery goods in fine spirit
A number of festive bakery products have been developed using branded alcohol from culinary alcohol supplier Thomas Lowndes - part of Beam Global Spirits & Wine Inc. Tesco is now using Courvoisier VS Cognac in its Finest Mince Pie range, while Asda uses the same product in its Extra Special ...
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California Raisins drives concentrate for bakery
California Raisins is promoting its juice concentrate for use in the production of baked goods, confectionery and snacks.The concentrate is prepared in stages by leaching raisins with water to produce the juice. This is then "evaporated in a vacuum pan until the concentration contains a minimum of 70% natural fruit ...
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Cookies to beat crunch
Rich Products has added filled cookies to its product portfolio. They come in two varieties - Chocolate Cookie with a cream filling and Vanilla Cookie with a milk chocolate filling."Cookies are extremely popular with consumers," said Rich’s marketing manager Gail Lindsay. "But there is a definite gap in the market ...
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Finsbury sees slowdown in cake growth
Finsbury Foods’ sales for the 20 weeks to mid-November were up 11% on the same 2007/08 period, with sales in its cake division up 3% year-on-year."Cake growth has slowed, both within the whole market and within Finsbury," said a company spokesperson. "There has been a reduction in demand for high-value ...
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Greencore initiatives drive cakes
Food producer Greencore has revealed that its cakes and desserts business has performed well for the full year ended 26 September 2008.Sales have increased by 8.3% in its Convenience Foods division (excluding water) and average category volume growth in its UK convenience business, which includes cakes and sandwiches, stood at ...
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New mixer causes a stir
Pantheon has developed its new heavy-duty PM20 Planetary Mixer. The body of the machine is made from solid metal and die-cast aluminium, while the 20-litre mixing bowl and beater, whisk and dough hook are all made from stainless steel. It is powered by a 1.1kW motor and features three speed ...
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NSA group moves to clarify future training
The steering group tasked with drawing up a new industry-stan-dard foundation skills course for bakery moved to clarify issues surrounding the future of bakery qualifications, following sector skills council Improve’s announcement (BB, pg 6, 14 November) that it would be reforming the structure of qualifications.A baking industry representative steering group ...
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Consumer Tracking
Latte is the new lager, according to new research commissioned by Costa Coffee. The survey, conducted by market research agency Opinion Matters, revealed that coffee shops have overtaken pubs as the UK’s favourite social hang-out.Of the people surveyed, 72% were said to prefer coffee shops to pubs for catching ...
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König system keeps it cool
European bakery equipment manufacturer König has launched an updated version of its vacuum cooling system the Ceovac. It allows bread, rolls and pastry products to be part-baked without being kept in freezers or on board refrigerated vehicles.The machines are supplied by European Process Plant, based in Surrey. Company ...