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Soft drinks: how to boost sales
Ensure you have a varied and diverse range of soft drinks available.Stock innovative, new and different products that offer credibility and added value elements.Ensure you offer premium, quality, ’healthy’ alternatives alongside carbonates.Create new occasions for soft drinks, such as breakfast or mid-morning.Soft drinks and smoothies are ideal products ...
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Donuts on the brain
Krispy Kreme donuts play key role in neurological research, shock! New research from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine sheds light on why our brains kick into action at the sight of sweet fried dough. Subjects taking part were tested twice - after chomping down as many as eight Krispy ...
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Premier negotiates a breathing space
The market reacted positively to Premier Foods’ announcement on 4 March of its financial results for 2007. Investors and analysts breathed a collective sigh of relief when the doomsayers’ predictions of a rights issue, possible sell-offs and breached banking covenants were not realised.The overall feeling of investors, analysts ...
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On breathing properly
Bad habits - whether it’s smoking, drinking or over-eating - are the bane of society and a drain on the NHS. But who ever considered breathing through one’s mouth an outrageous habit? Yes, you guessed who. There appear to be one or two major health risks involved in Dr Allinson’s ...
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Briefs
n The Wiltshire town of Melksham has lost its last independent bakers with the closure of Webbs Bakery. Owner Mick Eglin looked back on "32 brilliant years" and said that the bakery had outlasted most of the other independents in the county.He added that trading conditions had been "extremely difficult" ...
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Celebration Cake Maker of the Year
The Celebration Cake Maker of the Year category is open to everyone, ranging from small cake-making specialists right up to celebration cake suppliers to supermarkets.All you need to do to enter this award is be able to demonstrate your individual skills in this field. What sets you apart from ...
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last year’s winner: Terry Tang, owner, Terry Tang Designer Cakes
"We were so proud to have won the award. It was a stunning night and I was delighted to have been recognised by people in the industry for my work. A big article appeared in the local paper about us winning a few days later and ...
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Coca-Cola gets to grips with packaging
Coca-Cola Enterprises is to introduce an easy-to-hold ’grip" packaging design across all its 500ml PET bottles of leading soft drinks brands - Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero.The launch of the grip bottle marks the first significant change to the 500ml contour bottle design in 23 years. Steve Fry, marketing ...
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Swiss style comes to Manchester
A Lancashire pastry chef who learnt the trade from a Swiss master baker in Lytham St Anne’s has returned from 20 years working abroad to open The Deliciously Swiss Artisan Bakery & Patisserie in Didsbury, Manchester.Mark Cooper opened the doors of his new shop on Valentine’s Day and has met ...
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Confectionery products
and biscuits are more easily recognised on the supermarket shelf and are more likely to be purchased if they are in cartons. A study by market research company TNS Dimarso, showed consumers three different product categories, each of them packed in a carton as well as another format. Cartons were ...
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Cost cuts stimulate Grainfarmers’ profits
Grainfarmers Group, which recently struck a deal with Sainsbury’s to supply its in-store bakeries with fully traceable milling wheat, has reached profitability after paring down staff and transport costs.Chairman Andrew Christie-Miller told British Baker that creating a leaner, more efficient operation and seeking further agreements with "other major end users" ...
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Greggs reveals record profits as ingredients costs keep on rising
Greggs unveiled full-year pre-tax profits last week of £49m - up 12% on 2006. This is despite substantial rises in the cost of energy and key ingredients including flour and vegetable oils, which pushed up selling prices by 5% over the year.MD Sir Michael Darrington gave an upbeat assessment of ...
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Warburtons plans to open Yorkshire depot
Warburtons plans to build a distribution site at Howden in east Yorkshire because it has outgrown its existing depot in the region at Gilberdyke.The 15,000sq ft depot, which will be based on the Ozone Business Park close to the M62 motorway, is being developed to the company’s specification by Horncastle ...
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Functional foods
The baking industry could do its bit to combat cancer by including extracts from mangos in a range of products. Mangos are rich in antioxidants and dietary fibre, according to new scientific research.The Journal of Cereal Science reported that, during the research, mango peel powder had been used to make ...
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Rogue trader fuels price rises
A rogue trader at the commodity broker MF Global played a large part in pushing up global wheat prices at the end of February, taking huge personal bets on the direction of wheat prices and losing $141.5m (£71m).The company fired trader Evan Dooley at its Memphis office for an "awful" ...
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Health watch
Consumers are increasingly opting to avoid products with gluten and wheat because they want less of them in their diet and not because they may have a food sensitivity, according to a report commissioned by Mrs Crimble’s ’free-from’ cake and biscuit brand.The report found that consumers were being swayed towards ...
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Irwin’s opts for new software
Irwin’s, the Irish plant bakery, has installed the latest version of QuickStep Food and Beverage from Lawson Software, along with Lawson Business Intelligence, to improve communication across its UK-wide supply chain."It’s a demand-driven system," says executive chairman Brian Irwin, "which means that products will be made and delivered more efficiently, ...
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NewsTop toasters: Krusty’s rotating toaster
Debate raged on one blogging site recently about the merits of this amateur inventor’s solution to that age-old riddle: how do you toast your bread evenly? This beautifully illustrated idea involves an electric motor to turn the centre shaft, and "the slow rotation of the gear shaft produces a more ...
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Last year’s winner:Simon Oddie, operations manager, Waterfields
"Winning the Craft Bakery Award last year confirmed what we’re about. The craft of baking is our focus - we have a wide range of products and devote a lot of time to staff, skills and training. We used the awards - John Waterfield was also named Baker of ...
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Medway pastry plant saved by management
A Welsh pastry business and 40 jobs have been saved, after senior management took control of the firm in a £1m deal.Sales directors Emma Crowther and Philip Stanton, finance director Ceri Smith and operations director Mark Jones all worked for frozen food manufacturer Medway Foods, which operated three factories at ...