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Plant Product of the Year
This new category in the Baking Industry Awards has been created to reward new product innovation from the industry’s largest companies. Plant bakers, industrial cake producers and large desserts manufacturers, which have launched innovative new products in the past year, are all encouraged to enter the Puratos-sponsored award."We pride ourselves ...
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Reporting in
The last few months have seen extraordinary gyrations in grain prices. The quality wheat market has been especially affected as Canadian prices doubled between November and February before falling back in the first week of March.Looking forward, most expectations are for continuing volatility associated with uncertainties about the forthcoming harvest, ...
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Budget report
Alistair Darling revealed his plans for the UK economy in his first ever budget this week, but how will the baking industry be affected? See 21 March British Baker
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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. See 21 March British Baker
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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. See 21 March British Baker
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Greggs reveals record profits
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. See 14 March British Baker
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11 Nov, 1955
Last week, a most interesting programme appeared on television, dealing with ‘the teenage problem’.What, in fact, is the problem of the teenage boy and girl today? I feel that in many ways it is a problem of “What shall we do with our lives?” Much is heard of the “teddy” ...
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Delay over decision on folic acid
A decision on the mandatory introduction of folic acid to breadmaking flour has been postponed until the results of two further studies are known.The Food Standards Agency, the government’s food watchdog, was due to deliver its verdict on folic acid, which can reduce birth defects, this year, but will now ...
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Irwin’s becomes an ambassador for Irish tourism
Northern Ireland’s Irwin’s Bakery has been appointed one of the lead ’ambassadors for Ireland’ by Tourism Ireland, partnering with the tourist board in a series of initiatives in Britain, including large-scale sampling events in London and Glasgow over St Patrick’s Day on 17 March.This tie-up with the Irish ...
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NewsThe last-ever bakery film?
Last week, Stop the Week brought you news of the first-ever outing of a hitman-turned-baker (that we know of, at least), in the new film The Baker. Despite our high hopes, it’s proven to be off-target with the critics. The Guardian called it “a slow, dim affair [that] lacks dramatic ...
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Basco follows up case of missing baskets
Tens of thousands of bread baskets being illegally used by bakeries and caterers have been recovered in the past six months by Bakers Basco, an organisation set up by the industry to crack down on companies who hold on to baskets following deliveries.Basco’s national team of 12 recovery officers, working ...
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Breads fly high
Bread brands dominate the top 10 grocery brands in the UK, according to new research from AC Nielsen.Warburtons ranked number two, Hovis number four and Kingsmill number nine in the list, which measured sales values in 2007. Coca-Cola continued to top the charts as Britain’s best-selling grocery brand, up 2.3% ...
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Briefs
n Combining a business exhibition with seminars, demonstrations and training, the Caffè Culture show, from 21-22 May, 2008, presents an opportunity for the café community to generate business, share information and gain an insight into the future of this fast- moving sector.The event, supported by major industry players, is ...
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BSB golf event
The world-famous Brabazon Golf Course at The Belfry, near Birmingham, is once again hosting this year’s golf day for the British Society of Baking. The event takes place on Tuesday, 29 April, starting at 8.30am, and will give members of the BSB and their guests the opportunity to ...
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FPB urges rethink on tax plans as next Budget looms
The 2008 Budget, out next week, is likely to heap an unfair tax burden on many smaller firms, such as craft bakers and bakery retailers, according to the Forum of Private Business (FPB).In his Pre-Budget Report and the Comprehensive Spending Review of 9 October, 2007, Chancellor Alistair Darling revealed that ...
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Chasing the dream
Disgruntled with the humdrum of the busy city life, Barry Hawthorne moved to the Isle of Skye from Cape Town. Captivated by the moody Scottish countryside, it’s here that he set up his pet project - a bakery called The Isle of Skye Baking Company."I first came to Skye in ...