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The Customer Focus Award
Winner BB’s Coffee & MuffinsIsleworth, MiddlesexBB’s 180 food-focused franchised cafés are found predominantly in shopping centres from "Plymouth to Perth". Each site adds extra ingredients to the company’s signature muffin mix, typically baking around 14 flavours a day.Last year, BB’s introduced a segmented range of muffins, following research which showed ...
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Baker of the Year
Winner Piero ScaccoChairman, Montana Bakery,SloughScacco worked as a patissier across the Continent, before coming to England and opening a business to develop part-baked baguettes.Having grown it to a spectacular £55 million turnover, he sold it - and started all over again.Montana Bakery produces ambient, chilled and frozen speciality breads and ...
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In my world: the plant baker
John Foster is MD of Fosters Bakery, based in Barnsley, south Yorkshire, which supplies fresh and frozen products into major retailers, airlines and caterersImagine a key piece of equipment is playing up and you call in a skilled mechanic to give it a service. I guess you’d be mortified if ...
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Bakery Supplier of the Year
Winner WC RoweFalmouth, CornwallW C Rowe has two bakeries and 17 retails outlets in Devon and Cornwall and serves the major multiples with breads, cakes, confectionery and savouries. It is one of the largest employers in the area, with 450 staff, and turns over £20 million per annum.The judges were ...
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Bakery Food Manufacturer of the Year
Winner Crantock BakeryIndian Queens, near Newquay, Cornwall"You can’t stand still," says Nick Ringer, chairman and managing director of Crantock Bakery. "You have to develop new products, new ways of selling and explore new markets."It was this spirit of innovation, together with an emphasis on product quality and superb customer service, ...
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BB captures NA deal for Review pages
British Baker is pleased to announce that, from January 2009, it will publish the Bakers’ Review, the official journal of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA), in a special section within the magazine.Gill Brooks-Lonican, chief executive of the NA, said she was "delighted to have secured this agreement with ...
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Garlic bread line expanded
La Pizza Company is offering its frozen part-baked Tear & Share Garlic Bread in new flavours. They are now available in cajun garlic, parmesan & black pepper and roasted red onion varieties, and are made using real garlic butter."We sprinkle it with Italian herbs and coat it with an additional ...
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Dawn brings in Energy Muffin
A new Breakfast Energy Muffin has been launched by Dawn Foods, aimed at the café sector. The American-style bakery product is made with carrots, raisins, pumpkin seeds, dates, apricots and cranberries, to provide breakfast on-the-go or a coffee accompaniment."Out-of-home eating continues to increase, with breakfast on-the-go showing tremendous growth, and ...
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Report reveals growth potential for indie cafés
The independent coffee shop market is far from saturated, with plenty of potential for future growth, according to the latest research from Allegra Strategies.In a survey of more than 200 owners and operators of independent coffee shops in the UK, Allegra found evidence of a growing café culture, with ...
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Celebration Cake Maker of the Year
Winner Leanne TangCake DecoratorTerry Tang Designer CakesWavertree, LiverpoolShowgirls were the theme of Tang’s Las Vegas cake, which included intricately painted eyeshadow and lashes on the girls’ faces, as well as poker chips and playing cards.Detail is important to Tang, who says she takes great care to create authenticity in her ...
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The Italian con job
In a recent BB we slavered over the wonders of authentic Neapolitan pizza. Well, the pizzas from Naples may be a delight, but the city’s bread will slowly kill you.Stop the Week has previously reported on the Mafia’s moves into bakery in the southern Italian pizza capital, setting up illegal ...
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Contents
The British Baker Award for Special AchievementWINNER John Slattery16Baker of the YearWINNER Piero Scacco17The Craft Business AwardWINNER The Village Bakery (Coedpoeth)19Bakery Supplier of the YearWINNER W C Rowe20The Achievement in Bakery Training AwardWINNER Jane Hatton, Brooklands College21Plant Product of the YearWINNER Eurobuns - Skinny Baked Donut22The Organic AwardWINNER ...
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Costa enjoys positive sales results
Costa Coffee’s sales have continued to rise over the past six months - up 23.6% in the half-year to 14 August. In its interim statement, parent company Whitbread said the brand had demonstrated "good growth", with like-for-likes up 3.7%.Half-year results will be published on 14 October. Whitbread - which also ...
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Price of croissants nearly doubled, finds survey
The retail price of packaged croissants has almost doubled in the last six months, according to the latest price data from Verdict Research.The survey found that, of all retail products, the price of four-packs of croissants rose the most steeply - by 47.4% from January to August this ...
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Kellogg in snacks deal
US-based Kellogg Company, in Michigan, is expanding its capacity, after acquiring the assets of IndyBake Products LLC and Brownie Products, a privately- held contract manufacturing business.IndyBake and Brownie Products produce cracker, cookie and frozen dough items at two manufacturing sites, located in Seelyville, Indiana and Gardner, Illinois. These ...
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Planglow is just the ticket for delis
Planglow has launched its new Deli Tickets, suitable for salad bars, deli counters and shelf edges. They are pre-laminated and no cutting is required; they can also be used repeatedly.The tickets are sold in boxes of 100 and can be overprinted using Planglow’s LabelLogic software and a standard inkjet or ...
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Fairings well in France
Furniss of Cornwall is now selling its Cornish Fairings biscuits in France. The biscuits will be hitting the shelves of Le Comptoir Irlandais stores across the country in its three varieties - orange and lemon, apple and cinnamon and stem ginger and honey - alongside its Cornish Gingerbread."Cornwall is being ...
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Premier in fiendish form
Premier Foods is launching limited-edition Mr Kipling Fiendish Fancies for Halloween. A variation on its popular French Fancy, the new cakes will have orange and black icing and Halloween-themed packaging."This variant of the popular French Fancy will help retailers maximise their seasonal sales," said Dan Ince, head of ...
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Oz pudding firm looks to UK growth
Australian dessert maker, Pudding Lane, has high hopes for expansion in the UK, after winning a one-star gold award for its Macadamia and Brandy Pudding at the Great Taste Awards.The company, which only sent out its first shipment to the UK for Christmas 2007, plans to send six to eight ...
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Numbers game
3663 - named because it spells ’food’ on a phone (unless you’re using a Blackberry, in which case it spells ’rffr’) - has fast become one of the UK’s foodservice giants since its rebirth out of the ailing Booker in 1999.It could also be called 4843 (’huge’), having become the ...