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Tate & Lyle profits plunge in ’challenging’ sugar market
Tate & Lyle’s adjusted profit before taxation was down 19% to £120m in the six months to 30 September, despite a modest 1% increase in sales, to £1.7bn.The effect of exceptional costs of £36m, however, dragged pre-tax profits down to £84m, 42% less than the £145m achieved in the same ...
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Asda extends Irwin’s contract
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s has boosted its business in Great Britain with a contract to supply 200 Asda stores with five products from the Rankin Selection Irish breads range.The deal involves 750,000 additional product units annually and is valued at £400,000. Asda’s NI trading manager Michael McCallion said the contract ...
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Bakers lose out to Subway in sandwich sales battle
Bakers’ shops have seen their share of the sandwich market slip in the past year with sandwich and snack bars and supermarkets growing their sales, according to a new report from market research company Key Note.The report says bakers’ shops (a category that includes the Greggs chain) are still ...
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This is not just bakery...
No one has done more to capitalise on that ghastly sounding word ’premiumisation’ over the last few years than Marks & Spencer. In fact, the retailer has gone to such lengths to drive this home to consumers that you could coin another P-word - pornographisation - to describe it, such ...
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Dr Terry Sharp, head of baking and cereal processing, CCFRA
Heavy rain during the summer means there is probably not enough UK wheat to produce bread to our exacting quality standards in the coming year.It is now generally agreed that 2007 has been a poor harvest for both quality and quantity in a number of regions of the UK. This ...
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NA blasts report on supermarket power
The National Association of Master Bakers (NA) has slammed the Competition Commission’s report into supermarket power, accusing it of having "no concerns or interests about the viability of the high street or town centres".NA Parliamentary officer Chris Dabner said the report, which recommends planning changes that encourage more out-of-town supermarkets, ...
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Knockout blow for independents
T he eagerly-awaited Competition Commission (CC) report into the power of the supermarkets has arrived. Or, more accurately, a pre-report report, which precedes the report proper to be published next year, upon which we will report in due course.In the meantime, the initial recommendations make dour reading for high ...
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The book of Ruth
Who said you should never put all your eggs in one basket? Not Ruth Robinson, that’s for certain. She is the founder of Ruthy’s Scones - a name that doesn’t lend itself particularly well to diversification. "I tried baking traybakes as well as scones, then realised everyone was making them, ...
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Briefs
n The HGCA has collaborated with the Flour Advisory Bureau to produce a new multimedia educational resource called The Grain Chain (www.grainchain.com). This offers children aged five to 16 a fun way to learn about the ’field to fork’ cycle of how wheat is grown and used to produce breads ...
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Ingram Bros moves factory
Scottish bakery ingredients manufacturer Ingram Brothers is moving to a purpose-built factory in Paisley close to Glasgow Airport.The 43,000sq ft facility will be operational from 7 January 2008. It was designed to incorporate the latest technology in a highly efficient and food-safe environment, said the company.It will also enable ...
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BSA unveils hygiene code plans
The British Sandwich Association (BSA) is to beef up its code of practice, turning it into a health and safety guide for bakers, foodservice and retail sandwich bar operators.The first draft of the Food Standards Agency-backed scheme will be developed in January 2008 with a consultation period to follow.The ...
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Coca-Cola prizes
Coca-Cola has announced the winners of a prize draw competition it ran at the recent Bakers’ Fair North West on Sunday, 14 October.First prize was £1,000 worth of shopping vouchers, which were won by Karen Borg from Roch-dale, Lancashire.Angela Thompson from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, and Stephen Rowland from Atherton, Lancashire, ...
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High street slowdown continues
Fears of a continuing high street slowdown were confirmed in the latest CBI monthly retail survey, which found that sales growth was at its slowest for almost a year.A drop in year-on-year sales in the first half of October was reported by 33% of retailers compared with 42% who said ...
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CSR watch
The government announced last week that an estimated 6.7 million tonnes of household food and bakery waste is produced each year in the UK, which equates to approximately a third of all food shopping.To help reduce the amount of food that is thrown away, a government organisation, Waste & Resources ...
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Justify your expenditure
In my newspaper recently, I read about the chief executive of a hospital trust, responsible for a hospital in Kent, which was apparently so dirty and badly managed that approximately 90 people died from Clostridium difficile (C.difficile), contracted while being treated.Mind you, the nurses also bear a great responsibility; I ...
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Health watch
Experts have warned the baking industry against adding folic acid to flour or bread, linking an excess of the vitamin with increased risk of cancer.A new paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that fortified folic acid is broken down by the liver, however when eaten in its ...
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Mini quiches
Mini quiches are versatile and delicious snack products, which can be good enough to serve as a course at a dinner party. A good quiche is worthy of its one-time great reputation, now spoiled by numerous attempts to reduce the cost! So it’s worthwhile for bakers to return to ...
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SSP on track to open new sandwich outlets
Travel and leisure foodservice operator SSP is extending trials of two new sandwich formats, Camden Food Co and Panopolis.It will roll out five more Camden Food Co fresh sandwich outlets before Easter, adding to its five existing stores launched earlier this year, located in railway stations including Birmingham New Street, ...
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People
Gerry BrownridgeBako NorthernGerry Brownridge has rejoined Bako Northern after almost a year, to work with the company’s sales team. Brownridge had originally left the firm, after almost 25 years’ service, to work closer to home, but missed the buzz associated with a sales environment and the bakery trade, within which ...
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A sense of wellbeing
Health and wellbeing have been huge trends in the UK bakery market for the past few years. And it seems that the rest of Europe is not far behind, as messages of heart health, digestive health and general wellbeing resonated through the busy Food Ingredients Europe exhibition halls in London’s ...