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Mr Kipling: Cake Bites launched
Mr Kipling has launched a range of Cake Bites. The Premier Foods brand is aiming to capitalise on the growing market for sharing and special treat eating occasions with its new offering. Mr Kipling Cake Bites come in three flavours - Caramel, Lemon and Strawberry & Vanilla, available from this ...
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Grahams’ charity link-up
Grahams Bakery in Dromore, Northern Ireland, has announced a partnership with charity Barnardo’s. As part of the bakery’s corporate and social responsiblity programme it has launched promotion packs to raise funds for the charity and has involved staff by encouraging them to fund raise at events. “We are constantly looking ...
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Sales up for Costa
Costa Coffee has reported a “positive start” to the financial year, with sales up 28.4% in the 13 weeks to 29 May.Owner Whitbread said the coffee chain had benefitted from a “rapid expansion programme which has seen the total number of units increase year-on-year by 289 to 1,051”. Like-for-likes were ...
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Starbucks/SSP deal: London plans
Starbucks Coffee Company and food travel experts SSP have agreed a deal which will see SSP open more than 150 Starbucks stores in Europe over the next three years. The outlets will be established in “prime travel locations”, and SSP hopes to open the first ones within London train stations ...
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Tesco: own-label revamp
Tesco has revamped its bakery packaging and displays. The new look, which is being rolled out to stores from this week, covers packaging and point of sale and in-store fixtures and fittings.The revamp will more clearly differentiate Tesco’s standard range from its more expensive products. It will not affect Tesco’s ...
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Costa Foundation day raises £150,000
Costa Coffee’s first national Foundation Day raised £150,000, which will be donated to coffee growing communities. Profits generated in its 700 stores on 14 June are being donated to The Costa Foundation today, and will go towards building five new schools in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Uganda.The charity was set ...
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Drury Tea & Coffee Company goes green
London-based Drury Tea & Coffee Company is giving its customers the option of buying its roasted coffee beans in 12kg biodegradable hessian sacks rather than 10 x 1kg foil bags in a cardboard outer. The company says the move will help the environment and reduce the cost of the product ...
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Welsh food skills group launched
Ingredients supplier, Beacon Foods, has joined forces with a group of academics and food industry professionals with the aim of developing food industry skills in the country.The new group, Food Industry Skills Strategy Group, will oversee and direct the Food Industry Skills Project. Other members in the group include leading ...
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In the BB Archives November, 1893: thefts of confectionery
At West Kent Quarter Sessions, Maidstone, Benjamin Shepherd, confectioner, was charged with stealing two gross of aniseed balls and other articles, to the value of £3, the property of William Hodges, Chatham, between 1 June and 3 October.William Hughes, groom, and Henry Edward Hughes were also indicted for the theft ...
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Record entries for BIA 2008
A total of 105 new entrants - a record number - have entered the Baking Industry Awards 2008, to be held on Monday 15 September.The awards, which take place at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, London, have attracted a total of 229 entrants, 67 more than last year. The ...
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Next issue 27 June
lMeal deals special With Subway leading the way on meal deals, we ask if more bakery retailers should be following suitlBusiness building Our focus on cutting wastage continues as we see what businesses are doing to make their operations more sustainablelCelebration cakes Forget birthdays and Christmas - the trade in ...
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Construction starts on Warburtons’ £45m plant
Work is under way on Warburtons’ £45 million new ’super-bakery’ in Bristol, which is expected to employ 450 staff and produce 1.5 million products each week.The 220,000sq ft bakery, which is being built on a 12-acre site at the Western Approach Distribution Park at Severn Beach, is expected to ...
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60-second sales pitch Julie Croker, managing director, Katermart
What’s new?A range of two, compact electric convection ovens - the KF620 and KF412 from Katermart - suitable for bakers, coffee shops and sandwich bars.What’s so special about it?Both ovens can be plugged into a 13A socket, so none of that three-phase special power requirement rubbish. Just plug & play! ...
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Crackdown on abuse of workers
Food manufacturers should welcome the crackdown launched by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) to stamp out exploitation of foreign workers, which will involve up to 30 raids across the UK, inter- national law firm Eversheds said last week.Eversheds partner Owen Warnock said the GLA’s Operation Ajax was probably the ...
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What does ’foodservice’ actually mean?
Defra’s Food Service and Eating Out: An Economic Survey (2007), defines foodservice suppliers as providers of food items to catering outlets that offer eating locations outside the home. But retailers are increasingly supplying foodservice-style products for consumption at home and the range of retail outlets offering food (eg, sandwiches), virtually ...
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Sandwich guru: Adam Gilbert
A lot of time is spent here at the SoHo Sandwich Co working with both our chefs and numerous bread suppliers to create interesting combinations of fillings with the right bread to bring out the flavour. We need to use a perfectly balanced selection of flavours and textures to make ...
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Sayers buy-out as Lyndale goes into administration
A total of 450 jobs have been axed after the Lyndale Group was put into administration, which led to the closure of the Sayers’ bakery in Norris Green, Liverpool, 41 stores across the north west and the Sayers headquarters in the city.The job losses were implemented after a management buy- ...
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Want some advice? Talk to CenFRA
Manufacturers and bakers will be able to get free advice on automating their plants from CenFRA, a newly-formed body whose vision is to to provide independent, affordable automation solutions.Funded by Yorkshire Forward and The Northern Way, CenFRA - a not-for-profit organisation - has been set up to carry out assessments ...
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Best Bakeries aims for management buy-out
South Wales-based company Best Bakeries, which went into administration on Wednesday (4 June), may be saved by a management buy-out (MBO).The bakery, which supplies Ferrari’s Fresh Bakeries’ shops, has appointed Alistair Wardell and Nigel Morrison of Grant Thorn-ton Recovery and Reorganisation in Cardiff as administrators.Around 100 staff were employed ...
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To top it all
W ith increasing consumer awareness about what they are eating, the current trend is the use of natural fresh ingredients. It’s easier for small craft bakers who sell locally to use more fresh fruit pieces in their toppings, as many have a relatively short shelf-life and are made for immediate ...