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Show to go biennial
French bakery exhibition Europain is set to become a more frequent event, switching from every three years to every two, show organisers said at the launch of the 2008 exhibition.Around 600 exhibitors are expected at the now biennial five-day event, to be held at Parc des Expositions de ...
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Briefs
n Bakery companies Walkers Shortbread and Honeytop Speciality Foods have been short-listed for the Food Exporter of the Year award and Small to Medium Business Food Exporter of the Year award, respectively, in the Food from Britain Awards 2007.Now in their 11th year, the Food from Britain ...
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Tim Smith inherits FSA chair
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has appointed a new chief executive. Tim Smith is the former head of UK dairy company, Arla Foods UK. He will take up his new post next March.Dame Deirdre Hutton, chair of the FSA, said: "Tim has close links to both the retail and ...
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McVitie’s changes fig roll packs
Biscuit company McVitie’s says it will be launching new-look fig rolls on the Irish market soon, after packaging has been changed following a recent court case (British Baker, 12 October, pg 12).Paul Parkins, United Biscuits’ director, Ireland, said it is currently amending the packaging of its fig rolls to ...
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CSR in the spotlight
The Carbon Trust, a private company set up by government, has invited trade organisations to apply for up to £140,000-worth of funding on carbon reduction projects.To apply for the funding, applicants are required to produce a detailed plan, outlining how their initiative will deliver demonstrable carbon dioxide emissions savings, by ...
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Greencore profits hit by difficult summer trading
Convenience foods giant Greencore has become the latest supplier to complain that unseasonal summer weather and raw material cost inflation had hit its profits in 2007.Greencore, which claims to be Europe’s largest sandwich manufacturer, making more than 200 million sandwiches a year, said that, in common with the rest ...
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French lesson
Last month’s preliminary Competition Commission (CC) report into the supply of groceries in the UK contained serious flaws and omissions, which reflect an ignorance of a range of hidden elements affecting trading in town and city centres. It even encouraged the development of more edge-of and out-of-town stores in areas ...
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Gingerbread house
Grasmere Gingerbread is made using a 150-year-old secret recipe so secret, that it is locked away in the National Westminster Bank in nearby Ambleside. "My husband and father know it and that’s it. I don’t even know it," says Joanne Wilson of Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread. "My son who ...
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Whole grains help pancreas
Eating two portions of whole grains a day could almost halve the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, says new research.A study of more than 2,000 men and women, 532 of whom had pancreatic cancer, revealed those who ate at least two helpings of whole grains a day - the equivalent ...
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Lunchtime habits
More than two-thirds of office workers have sandwiches for lunch, according to new research.In a survey, carried out by Ipsos Mori for BaxterStorey, researchers found that 92% of office workers eat lunch, 78% are regular snackers, and of these, 20% snack on crisps while 27% ...
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Ingredients watch
Antioxidant-rich chocolate, which can be used in bakery applications, helps heart health, according to new research from Japan.The report from Chiba University suggests that consuming dark chocolate containing flavonoids (associated with antioxidants) on a regular basis improves coronary blood flow, and so reduces the risk of fatty build-up in ...
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A Week in the life of...
Monday After a relaxing weekend thinking about anything and everything but pasties, it’s time for the usual 7.30am start. I’m first into the kitchen at work, so I switch everything on and fire up the ovens, then put the kettle on, ready for the team at 8am. ...
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UCB’s United Nations
Just over a year after a major fire at its Bathgate facility at the end of October last year, Scottish firm United Central Bakeries (UCB) has ambitious plans.Rather than give up on the business or aim simply to rebuild, the management team decided on restructuring its production operations, in a ...
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viewpoint
For supermarkets, short and efficient supply chains must be the ultimate ’gold standard’ to aim for. This week, Sainsbury’s announced a brand new initiative on bakery, sourcing wheat from a UK farmers’ co-operative (pg 4). It is an admirable way of supporting British farmers and lowering the carbon footprint, ...
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’Dirt-cheap acquisitions’ up for grabs in 2008, says report
Tighter spending and higher commodity prices will combine to make 2008 a much tougher year in the UK bakery market, according to business analyst Plimsoll Publishing.Plimsoll has predicted that companies with large cash surpluses will be able to make some "dirt-cheap acquisitions" in 2008 as others begin to fail.It said ...
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Maple Leaf UK acquires Bernard Matthews site
Maple Leaf Bakery UK last week made the latest in a string of acquisitions, buying a Bernard Matthews bakery in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.The site specialises in savoury laminated pastry lines, such as pastry topped with egg and bacon, and employs 81 staff, including 18 agency employees.Turkey specialist Bernard Matthews said: "This ...
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Geoff Dossetter, external affairs director, Freight Transport Association
The price of crude oil has been on the rise all year. And all year the result has been increasing diesel and petrol prices for bakery distributors.This has meant higher transport costs for essential journeys. Raw materials in and finished products out - everything needs to be delivered and the ...
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Allied sale rumours mount as plant bakery battle hots up
Speculation was mounting in the national press this week over the future of Allied Bakeries, if parent Associated British Foods (ABF) should decide to sell the business.Kingsmill-owner ABF is said to be looking at a possible disposal of its bakeries - the business it was founded from in 1935.Primark ...
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Swedish bakery
Scotland’s first Swedish bakery is to open at a multi-million pound development on the site of Edinburgh’s former Royal Infirmary.Award-winning Swedish baker Jan Hedh will be overseeing the opening of the business called Peter’s Yard, which is a joint venture with Swedish businessman Peter Ljungquift and two Edinburgh-based partners. The ...