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Gingerbread Houses
Gingerbread houses are very common throughout Europe, particularly at Christmas time. They are relatively simple to make, and will look fabulous in your shop during the festive season. Children adore them. Ingredients Gingerbread, royal icing, baker’s chocolate, décor. Method 1 First, prepare your gingerbread ...
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Health watch
With salt levels in bread and bakery products in the UK ever under scrutiny, a new global study claims that efforts to cut down on salt intake will prevent millions of deaths each year. By reducing salt around the world by 15%, the study claimed, this could prevent almost nine ...
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Roberts team scales peaks
A team from Roberts Bakery has completed the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for a children’s charity.The team, composed of Rob Newton, Dave Clark, Gary Chrimes and Ray Agnew of Roberts, helped raise £2,500 for Hope House Children’s hospice. Chester-based Roberts Bakery matched this donation, bringing the total to ...
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Walkers reshuffles at the top
Walkers Shortbread chairman Peter Simpson has stepped down to be replaced by new non-executive chairman Michael Walker of financial public relations company Broadgate Marketing. He is not related to the Walker family that owns the business. Simpson stays on as non-executive director.The move comes as part of succession planning at ...
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viewpoint
It has been quite a momentous year. Flour and other commodity prices have seen very steep increases. Big names such as Inter Link have been sold to McCambridge while Lightbodys of Hamilton and Finsbury Foods forged a partnership that took many by surprise.Economy breads and private-label are often hardly worth ...
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Tea break stabbing
A man was stabbed through the heart at Warburtons’ bakery in Bellshill after a row over tea breaks, a court has been told. See 14 Dec British Baker
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IGD agrees 8g/serving whole grain definition
An agreed definition and recommended level of inclusion for whole grains in foods has been put forward by UK food and grocery industry body IGD.IGD’s Working Group on Nutrition, which has been looking into the issue since 2006, has recommended that packaged goods claiming the presence of whole grain should ...
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Food & Drink Expo adjoins BIE
Food & Drink Expo 2008, an exhibition for sourcing food and drink products and services from around the world, will run alongside Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) at the Birmingham NEC from April 6-9 next year.Organic produce will be a key feature and the Soil Association will sponsor an ...
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Flawed argument
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is currently conducting a public consultation on new guidance on food-labelling terms, such as ’fresh’, ’pure’, ’premium’ and ’quality’. But many of the proposed guidelines are too vague to clarify any ambiguities.The proposed changes will do little to stop unscrupulous use of such words - ...
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The Forum of Private Business is urging consumers to avoid large shopping
centres this Christmas and, instead, buy their freshly baked products from small independent bakeries.With less than a month to go before 25 December, shops across the UK are gearing up for the Christmas rush, but so are the larger retailers’ marketing machines. The FPB believes that, for a truly personal ...
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Sainsbury’s strikes flour deal for in-store bakery supply
Sainsbury’s says it has struck a unique deal to supply its 360 in-store bakeries with traceable British flour, as part of an initiative to become what it calls "the best baker in town".Sainsbury’s will source some 55,000 tons of wheat annually, from a farmer-owned cooperative called Camgrain, in a ...
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Dispute over bakery facing liquidation
Liquidators were called in to London wholesale bakery DM Holdings (UK) Ltd, trading as European Bakeries (UK), on 22 November, following a debacle over rent (British Baker, 23 November, pg 5).The bakery has now closed and liquidators Kevin Murphy and Mike Kernick from Chantrey Vellacott have ...
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Czech Republic bakery sets up robotised facility
Czech bakery company Penam has opened the first robotised bakery in the Czech Republic, near Prague.The industrial bakery company has spent E17.8 million (£12.7m) on building the new site, which has created 120 jobs.The group has also invested in one of the largest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging ...