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Boots’ print
Boots is reducing its carbon count with a range of sandwiches using mainly regional produce and Yorkshire-grown wheat. This is the result of a partnership between Boots, sandwich maker Buckingham Foods and Fosters Bakery.Last year, Fosters invited farmers to grow a plot of breadmaking wheat and offered £1,800 for the ...
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Café connection
Caffè Culture 2008, with its wide range of exhibitors, food demonstrations and extensive programme of seminars, is less than three weeks away. The show, taking place at London’s Olympia on 21 and 22 May, features the latest products and services from international and UK-based suppliers, from bakery and café design ...
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Cake Décor gains craft distribution
Cake decoration company Cake Décor has signed a deal with BFP Wholesale that will see its writing icing tubes and cake decorations distributed to the craft bakery, sugarcraft and confectionery sectors in the UK.The Glasgow-based company has recently invested around £250,000 in high-speed filling and packing machinery, and appointed two ...
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NewsRock cakes of choice
They don’t make rock stars like they used to. "I’m addicted to madeleines," is the best tale of excess that the Daily Star could get out of Alex Turner, lead singer of rock band du jour, Arctic Monkeys. He is said to be hooked on the French cakes.Songwriting partner, Miles ...
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Last call for entries
There are just two weeks to the 16 May deadline for getting your entries in for the Baking Industry Awards 2008. With 11 categories celebrating all that’s great about our industry, the climax will be a gala dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel in London on 15 September when the ...
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Coca-Cola sales and profits up on previous year
Coca-Cola’s first-quarter sales and profits show an increase on the same period last year.Pre-tax profits for the three months to 28 March were up 13% on the first quarter of 2007, to $1.9 billion (£954m). Sales were up 21% to $7.4bn (£954m).President and chief operating officer Muhtar Kent said he ...
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So cool, it’s hot
One exhibit stood head and shoulders above the others at BIE - literally.Stopping a few people, whose heads were craned upwards, I asked what it was."Never seen anything like it," came the reply.After three such responses, it was time to get closer.It was certainly striking, but its rather odd, chimney-like ...
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Co-op embarks on major own-label range relaunch
The Co-op is to substantially expand its premium own-label Truly Irresistible range across its in-store bakeries.Head of bakery Mike Owen told British Baker: "After an 18-month review, we have developed a number of wonderful new lines. We are refitting 700 stores this year for an exciting new look and ...
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Costa plans to double outlets over five years
The number of Costa coffee shops globally will double over the next five years, parent company Whitbread has revealed.Chief executive Alan Parker said the leisure giant was aiming for "disciplined growth" across the group, including the worldwide expansion of Costa stores from 1,000 to 2,000.In the UK, it will focus ...
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Rice flour costs rocket
Gluten-free bakery companies are struggling with the soaring price of rice flour as rice stocks hit a 30-year low.The price of a tonne of rice has increased from around £200 to £500 since the turn of the year with knock-on effects for the price of rice flour - a key ...
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Dovemart demonstrates the Easy Piper
Dovemart’s Easy Piper was one of the talking points of BIE. The piping dispenser just needs a gentle touch to dispense icing, butter creme, warm chocolate, Vienna mix - almost every filling and topping including savoury ones, such as mashed potato and sausage roll filling.Invented by Ed Dittmar from Idaho, ...
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National Doughnut Week
Craft bakers around the country are gearing up for National Doughnut Week from 10-17 May with a host of ideas to help raise funds for the event’s chosen charity, The Children’s Trust.Townsend Bakery in Liverpool has developed a limited edition star-shaped doughnut for the week, while Corner Bakery in Preston ...
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Fad or fact?
As more and more celebrities popularise wheat-free diets, it is not surprising that people find difficulty in having coeliac disease taken seriously when they ask for gluten-free food.The most difficult thing for them is eating out. While there is always a banana in the supermarket, it would be good to ...
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Michele Young: at a glance
Job history: Young joined BB’s in 2005, during which time the number of cafés has grown from 90 to 179. Prior to that, she spent 12 years working in foodservice and retail marketing and international brand development, 10 as marketing manager (Europe and the Middle East) for Burger King, ...
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The thin white line
£285,000 - that’s the value of 10kg of ketamine, seized by police from the luggage of a 27 year-old Indian national at Kuala Lumpur International airport, camouflaged - ingeniously enough - as flour. Bags of white powder, eh - who’d have thought of checking that? The irony is, the ...
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Out with the old? No way!
Change and produce new products: we know we have to do both. Yet when I look at our end-of-year figures, what do I find? Yes, you guessed it, all our top sellers are the old lines and the vast majority of our cash comes from those.When I think of the ...
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Are you stressed out?
Larger bakers - we’re talking business size not belt girths here - have long recognised the benefits of automatic roll plant. But what about the smaller guys - again, not the vertically challenged - who are thinking of improving efficiencies by automating?The worry is that automated bread lines are ...
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Reporting in
== Kirk Hunter ==Scottish Association of Master BakersYou know you are important when the government devises a policy just for you. That’s been the situation in recent months for Scottish bakers considering Scotland’s first National Food Policy.The consultation exercise has just closed and the response of Scottish Association of Master ...
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In Short
== Colston quartet ==Colston Bakeries has opened a fourth shop in Malvern, Worcestershire. The family-run retail baker, now in its third generation, sells bread, filled rolls and sandwiches, cakes and savouries. Its central bakery makes 40,000 products a week.== Warburtons’ lucky 13 ==Warburtons is opening a new depot in Paddock ...
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The Competition Commission has published its final report in its inquiry into the UK grocery market, including measures to improve competition in local areas and to address concerns about relationships between retailers and their suppliers. The recommended measures include a competition test in planning decisions on larger grocery stores; action ...