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Cox appointed to lead role at McCambridge
Irish baker McCambridge Group has appointed Gavin Cox to the newly created role of chief executive officer, with effect from 5 February.Cox joined McCambridge in 2007 as group finance director. Previously, he was finance director of St Ivel’s food site at Minsterley, a circa £70 million business.According to ...
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World record pancake attempt
Northern Ireland’s Allied Bake-ries are waiting to hear from the Guinness World Records to see if they have beaten the world record for the largest number of people tossing pancakes.A total of 206 people tossed Kingsmill Giant Pancakes simultaneously for 30 seconds, breaking the previous record of 108. The ...
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Bakery fined
Usman Zafar, the former owner of a Winsford, Cheshire bakery has been fined £2,000 and ordered to pay costs of £700 for "appalling standards" of food hygiene.Zafar appeared before magi-strates on 29 January and admitted failing to maintain clean conditions at the One Stop Shop on Wharton Road. Magi-strates ...
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United Biscuits takes steps to greener life
United Biscuits (UB) has sought to enhance its green credentials by setting out targets for redu-cing greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, waste sent to landfill, water use and packa-ging waste.At the same time, the company is increasing its use of environmentally friendly transport and sustainable sourcing.UB’s commitments are contained ...
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Borrowing at your peril
Have you ever wondered why we pay taxes for an Army, Navy and Air Force? No one is going to invade us. If they did, they could never afford to live here and buy a house. Plus, what would be the point in invading us, as most of their friends ...
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Briefs
n Irish firm Johnston Mooney & O’Brien has won a E2m contact to provide fresh bread to the Irish Defence Forces.n The Co-operative Group plans to switch all its own-brand teas to Fairtrade and stop selling eggs from caged hens. The company started stocking Fairtrade food products 10 years ago ...
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Carluccio’s reports good profits for start of year
Carluccio’s, the Italian restaurant and delicatessen chain, has announced that, for the 16 weeks to 13 January, turnover growth was up 18%.In an annual trading update statement last week, the com-pany said Christmas trading was firm and in line with the board’s expectations, but added: "Conditions are undoubtedly more challenging ...
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Central Foods subject to MBO
Frozen food and bakery supplier Central Foods has announced that it is undergoing a management buyout.The move came as previous joint MD, Tony Levy, decided to sell his share in the business. Under the new structure, Gordon and Alison Lauder are now the new owners of the business, taking ...
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Skills need is major challenge
The latest British Baker poll, on [http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk], has revealed that bakers thought that skills shortages were the biggest issue facing their business in 2008.Forty-one per cent of bakers voted that skills shortages will be the major issue this year, followed by 35%, who elected for the rising cost of ...
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The Dynamics of change
A surgeon friend once said to me: "Being an anaesthetist is hours of boredom, with the odd moment of dread panic!" As you well know, dear baker, our job is the very opposite: "hours of dread panic, with the odd moment of boredom!"You’d think that, with many years in ...
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Commodities watch
After record almond ship-ments over the first three months of the new season (September-November), December shipments were also slightly up on the 2006 figure. Overall domestic sales were down by 18.4% while exports were up by 8.8%, said Mark Setterfield MD of RM Curtis.However, RM Curtis’ Edible Nuts & Dried ...
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Cornish opening
Camilla Parker Bowles opened Marshfield Bakery in Wiltshire on Tuesday. Local press reports said the business had recently moved from a small cottage to a barn, due to increasing demand for its locally sourced products.The Duchess of Cornwall was given a tour of the bakery by owners Lynne and Paul ...
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Costa’s ethical stance
With consumers increasingly opting for ethical products, Costa Coffee has set up its own charity, the Costa Foundation. The company says its aim is to put something back into coffee-growing communities from which it sources its coffee beans. It is currently working in Colombia, Ethiopia and Uganda.The foundation helps support ...
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The cult of the toaster
We appear to have stumbled across a whole subculture dedicating their time to toasters. At www.toaster.org you’ll find toaster art, toaster merchandise and toaster-themed e-cards. The Toaster Museum Foundation proclaims: “We are a non-profit organisation dedicated to toasters – yes, that’s correct, the kitchen appliance. Since our origin in the ...
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Distribution watch
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has warned that many bakery distributors may not be prepared for the new Transport for London Low Emission Zone scheme, which came into force on Monday, 4 February.Bakery distributors working in and around London, which do not meet the required low emission levels, face the ...
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Ditty on song
The Big Apple didn’t know what had hit it last year, when 50 of Britain’s best craft bakers piled off a plane and pounded the sidewalks in a mission to visit the city’s finest bakers and retailers.Part of the British Confectioners’ Association’s (BCA) busy schedule of trips and events for ...
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Getting the l’eau down
Much is made of ’greenwashing’ - the slightly sneery term levelled at businesses accused of hooking on to environmental schemes and painting themselves as tree- huggers. But for once, companies are being asked to take the term more literally and greenwash more. To do this, they need to be washing ...
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Tesco ends ’hit and hope’
On visiting Tesco’s inconspicuous HQ in Cheshunt, surrounded as it is by Hertfordshire suburban semis, the initial impression is that it’s a pretty understated setting for the brain-room of the retailer that accounts for one in every eight pounds that leaves our wallets.This changes the moment you enter the bustling ...