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Tesco’s part-baked bread sales soar
Tesco’s sales of part-baked bread have soared by 47% in the past year.And the supermarket giant has hinted that it may in future offer part-baked versions of all its bakery products.Tesco said sales had been so strong that it has doubled its range to 14 part-baked products “with more to ...
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BSB conference programme revealed
The British Society of Baking is to hold its autumn conference on the 6 and 7 October at the Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, Coventry.The event will include the AGM, dinner and entertainment on the Monday evening and a conference the following day.Conference speakers include David Smart from Greenhalgh’s, who will ...
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Tate & Lyle opens €4m innovation centre
Ingredients giant Tate & Lyle (T&L) has opened an innovation centre in Lille, France. The €4m centre, opened on 19 September, will focus on developing health and nutrition products, with laboratories and testing faciities open to T&L’s customers. Bakery and food manufacturers are among those who will be able to use T&L’s pilot laboratory, allowing them to test out systems, products and processes on a small scale before upscaling to a plant operation. T&L’s research and development team will develop new ingredients in the field of "wellness and nutrition", as well as exploring novel applications for its current range of functional food ingredients. Vice-president of sales and marketing EMEA, James Blunt, said the centre "will not only provide a huge boost to the development of our own value-added ingredient product range, but will also be extremely valuable to our customers as they refine and perfect their own products. "Our research shows that consumers in Europe are becoming more conscious of having a healthy, balanced diet. We are confident that this facility will be one of the principle hubs in the industry for the development of health and wellness ingredients across a range of applications." On the same day, T&L revealed it will also open a new Polydextrose production line at its Koog plant in the Netherlands. The facility will be the first of its kind in Europe, with the capacity to manufacture a range of different soluble fibres, with applications in a range of food and drinks. T&L’s range includes texturants, sweeteners and dietary fibre brands.
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Business building workshop at Café+
Visitors to Café+, the café, sandwich and coffee shop show organised by British Baker’s publisher William Reed Business Media (WRBM), will benefit from top business-building advice in an exclusive seminar. Shopper research retail consultancy him! will run a workshop which will help show attendees exploit all the opportunities available to them.
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Welcome to the Baking Industry Awards 2008
A very big’congratulations!’ to the winners and finalists in the Baking Industry Awards and, importantly, a huge ’Thank You’ to all the award sponsors who made it possible.In the following pages, we celebrate all those who made it to the final three in each category.While we only give a brief ...
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Next issue 4 October
== lBaking Industry Awards ==Highlights of the big night at the Grosvenor House hotel, which hosted the industry’s glitziest bash== lChocolate ==BIA08 Special Achievement award winner, John Slattery, gives us his chocolate tart masterclass== lInterior Motives ==We visit another cutting-edge bakery retailer to ask what makes their retail strategy ...
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Piero Scacco scoops the ultimate accolade at BIA
At Monday night’s Baking Industry Awards, Piero Scacco won the coveted Baker of the Year title.Sponsored by Vandemoortele, the accolade was presented to Scacco in front of a packed room of more than 800 members of the baking industry, assembled at London’s Grosvenor House hotel for the biggest annual ...
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British Baker Award for Special Achievement
This year’s winner of the British Baker Award for Special Achievement, John Slattery, is in good company, with names such as baker Charles Geary, cereals scientist Stan Cauvain and bakery tutor Jean Grieves.John Slattery, too, stands in a class of his own. A renowned patissier, confectioner and son of highly ...
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The Achievement in Bakery Training Award
Winner Jane HattonLecturerBrooklands CollegeWeybridge, SurreyHatton says she has always enjoyed sharing her skills as a baker and confectioner and her move into teaching from working full-time in various bakery businesses was a natural progression.She has now been teaching for 26 years, the last eight at Brooklands College.Hatton was ...
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Cost-conscious additions
Adding nuts to products can be an expensive business. So while prices escalate, a cheaper option than some of the exotic tree nuts could be using peanuts. Even cheaper than whole nuts, peanut flour was recently launched into the UK with a variety of US-style applications touted. It can be ...
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Industry awaits verdict on wheat after wet season
After a particularly wet August and September, the milling and baking industries are waiting to see how the weather has affected the quality of UK wheat.Alex Waugh, director general of UK flour milling trade body nabim, said yield was lower than expectations, but the main concern is the quality ...
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Police investigate, after De Gustibus bakery is destroyed by blaze
De Gustibus’ Oxfordshire bakery has been destroyed in a fire.The blaze ripped through the artisan baker’s Abingdon plant on the night of 10 September, damaging most of the building before firefighters arrived. Owner Dan Schickentanz said: "Only the walls are left standing - the place is completely ...
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Health agenda
The baking industry has always had a large element of indulgence about it - from cream cakes to doughnuts - but consumers are looking for healthier options when it comes to their daily bread. The focus used to be on what can be taken out of bakery products to make ...
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The genius of Dr Allinson
How do you transform obese folk into "ordinary" people? It’s obvious, duh! Make them run a half marathon every day. If only Dr Allinson had made his suggestion more forcefully a century ago...On fighting the flab: "Exercise must be taken daily; four or five miles a day to begin ...
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Baking Industry Alternative Awards
This week’s "Can’t blame them for trying" award goes to The Really Sensible Trading Company, which has predicted nothing short of a revolution in the world of cafetières.And how is it going to achieve this lofty goal? "The Really Sensible Trading Company is targeting the Christmas market with a range ...
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Campden & Chorleywood joins forces with brewing research firm
Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA) and Brewing Research Inter-national (BRI) have merged to form Campden BRI, a combined resource for the food and drink industry.The merger brings together 380 staff, and offers a wide range of research and development, technical services, analysis and training activities to the ...
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In the archives
== March 3, 1933: catchphrase competition =="Keep your own harem; let us supply your sultanas." This is a catchy phrase, and if used by an advertiser in The British Baker, would be sure to draw attention to that firm’s announcement. Can you think of others for display advertisements? Think of ...
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The Craft Business Award
Winner The Village Bakery(Coedpoeth), WrexhamThe Village Bakery (Coedpoeth) was established in 1964 and is still owned and run by the Jones family. It produces premium breads, morning goods, savouries and bespoke products, which are sold through its five shops and to a number of wholesale customers, including Marks & Spencer, ...
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The Quality Product Award
Winner Jacksons the Bakers -Traditional Steak PieChesterfieldJacksons has come a long way since 1944, when it was a single shop, producing mainly large white loaves and the odd celebration cake. Although the company still has one shop, it is about to move into a new factory from which its 58 ...
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The In-Store Bakery Award
Winner Tesco, Meltham Lane,ChesterfieldTesco, Meltham Lane bakery manager Ian Cain’s 15-strong department, which includes eight fully-trained bakers, makes around 80% of the in-store bakery’s products from scratch.Cain has been a baker with Tesco for 16 years and many of his staff have been with the department for over 10 ...