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Fostering skills
Momentum is gathering around the National Skills Academy Training Centre for Bakery. Whether this ends up based at Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA), as mooted, or emerges as a handful of satellite colleges, scattered across a wider geographic reach, is still up for debate. Fosters Bakery, for ...
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A free glide
Philip Gittens, a wholesale baker in Hull, who runs the Crusty Cob, has recently launched his latest invention after receiving a £25,000 European grant.The castors, called Gliderz, were invented after his wife had trouble moving heavy tables. "The only way my wife could clean was to take everything off the ...
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NewsGloves off?
There were bemusing bakery goings-on at the Royal Courts of Justice last week, when embattled ex-Beatle Paul McCartney bizarrely turned up for his divorce hearing with Heather Mills, clutching a Village Bakery oven glove. So why the mitt? Apparently he uses it to keep his papers safe. When BB got ...
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Green Watch
New research from business analyst Mintel claims that 84% of British adults look at packaging to see its recycling credentials.This figure suggests that recycling credentials are more important to a consumer than fat, salt and calorie content. According to Mintel, in the UK, 80% of adults look at salt ...
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Greencore weathers tough trading period
Greencore Group, the Irish maker of sandwiches and malt, has had a tough year due to unseasonal summer weather, consumer slowdown, strong raw material inflation and a weak exchange rate, said chairman Ned Sullivan.The convenience foods division, including sandwiches, quiche, cakes and desserts, performed well in the first ...
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Organic at heart
Honeyrose Bakery, the organic cake baker based in Park Royal, London, is significantly stepping up its operations to meet the growing market for organic hand-baked cakes. The firm, founded in 2000, has outgrown its current bakery, having "knocked through into neighbours until we’ve run out of neighbours", as Adrian Apodaca, ...
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Sayers updates its image and offering
North-west bakery chain Sayers unveiled its new look on Wed-nesday after revamping its image and menu.Trading hours will also be extended to Sundays in some of the shops and new breads, such as a multi-seed bloomer and a milk loaf, will be introduced."Over the coming weeks, customers will see ...
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Legislation watch
Bakery businesses are being urged to sign an online petition against the new family business tax.The e-petition is now among the top 50 most-signed petitions on the Number 10 website, with over 6,000 signatures, claims Professional Contractors Group (PCG), which represents the UK’s freelancers.In 2007, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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In the mood for Strudel
Apple strudel is thought to have derived from Bavaria or Austria. Made with a very thin elastic and springy pastry and filled with apple, this classic pastry makes a heart-warming winter dessert. The strudel can be sold as a whole piece or portioned as appropriate - we cut each ...
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Reporting in
Bakers are facing high raw material, ingredients and energy costs, and could do without the government’s plans to increase fuel duty by a further 2p per litre from 1 April.Representatives of the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling on ...
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Sandwich show
The Great Yorkshire Sandwich, Snack and Mobile Show will take place on 21 and 22 May at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley. Aimed specifically at the ’grab and go’ sector, the show has over 40 stands.Exhibitors include savoury suppliers, sandwich filling producers, business insurance specialists, catering equipment and delivery vehicle manufacturers, ...
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viewpoint
Would you welcome an ombudsman to police the relationship between supermarkets and suppliers (pgs 5 and 14-15)?Do you think the same as Dave Brooks of Finsbury Foods who says, "Suppliers need to take responsibility for themselves"? Or do you side more with another bakery manufacturer, who has to remain anonymous, ...
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NewsCan it
In the 1940s film The Third Man, Orson Welles’ Harry Lime uttered this famous line: “In Italy under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had 500 years of peace, and what did that produce? ...
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Apr–May 1933: Mottos of the week
* Things that are not of value singly are useful collectively * How often things happen by chance, which you would not dare to hope for * He cracks the nut, but who wishes to have the kernel out of the nut? * What is there of beauty in the ...
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International activity
Danish ingredients firm Danisco has signed an agreement for the acquisition of shares in UK-based emulsifiers producer Abitec. The acquisition is conditional upon the approval of the appropriate competition authorities. A spokesman for Abitec said this could take anywhere from eight weeks to several months.Abitec, which is based in Northampton, ...
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Allergy alert
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) revealed on Wednesday, 16 January, its new voluntary guidelines to warn consumers about possible allergens in food from food retail outlets, such as bakeries, cafés and restaurants, as well as food that is not prepacked. Two weeks later, on Wednesday, 30 January, the EU ...
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Aulds disputes press reports
Alan Marr, MD of Aulds (Food) of Greenock, Scotland, was scathing about press reports that profits at the company were down when he spoke to British Baker.Scotland’s largest independent baker and frozen foods company, Aulds Holdings, filed returns to Companies House for the year ending March 2007 showing turnover was ...
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Bachmann’s Patisserie at a glance
Established: 1989Address: Criterion Buildings, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0SS; tel: 020 8398 1988Products: Authentic Swiss patisserieInnovation: Individual desserts with accompanying tubs of sauces. "The concept is simple," says Ernst. "It allows our customers to dish up the kind of dessert you would normally only get at a ...
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US bakers march over failing wheat supplies
The American Bakers Association (ABA) is calling on all US bakers to descend on Washington in protest against critically low wheat reserves."Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures," said ABA president and CEO Robb MacKie.With "critically" low reserves and severe conditions in the wheat markets, ABA is demanding that the United ...