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Greggs rolls out trial ideas across UK sites
Greggs has started to roll out ideas it has been trialling at four stores around the UK, following some "quite encouraging" results.The bakery chain, which has 1,353 UK sites, announced last March that it would pilot innovative formats and ranges, including extended opening hours, range changes and new branding, at ...
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International activity
The Netherlands is to launch carbon-based packaging tax, the first of its kind in Europe. The tax will be based on the estimated CO2 emissions produced in making particular packaging.The government announced that the introduction of the new tax will be in January in its 2008 ’Tax Plan: Focus on ...
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Tesco adopts ’Jedi’ approach to training
Scratch baking will play a more important role at Tesco’s in-store bakeries as the supermarket rolls out a souped-up training programme across its entire estate.A new training regime is being put in place in Tesco’s 500 scratch-bake and 200 part-bake bakeries to address admitted failures in its bakery training programmes, ...
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Tate & Lyle sells Mexican assets
Tate & Lyle Mexico is selling its 49% stake in Grupo Industrial Azucarero de Occidente to ED&F Man Holdings, owner of Man Sugar, for US$93m (£46m), subject to shareholder and competition authority approval.Occidente operates three cane sugar mills in Mexico and Tate & Lyle’s share of its operating assets is ...
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Morrisons takes up regional approach
Morrisons has become the first major multiple to introduce a range of regional breads baked in-store from locally grown wheat.Following a trial that started in July, four types of bread are now being offered in selected stores in Yorkshire, Wessex and East Anglia. Introduction of the range, comprising two 800g ...
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How to avoid going stale
The growth in supermarket convenience-store formats is paving the way for more impulse and top-up bake-off and finished goods. However, heavy promotions could devalue the category and, as inevitably happens when new launches occur, long-established key products become commoditised."The past few years have seen quite a lot of promotional activity ...
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Bakbel’s plant is just jammy
To a jounalist, the prospect of trip abroad to visit a newly-opened factory sounds jammy! Especially when the factory involved is a supplier of that sweet preserve.Bakbel Europe opened its new fruit fillings, glazes and jam factory near Brussels on 7 September. Bakbel is a new joint venture between the ...
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BakeMark invests in training
Supplier BakeMark UK has launched a new Learning Resource Centre, offering employees training courses in subjects ranging from IT and numeracy to literacy and modern languages.The new Learning Centre has been set up in conjunction with USDAW to help develop students’ competencies in areas that will benefit their personal development ...
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Briefs
n ADM has announced that Ian Pinner has been named managing director, ADM Pura (the edible oils and fats business), adding this responsibility to his current role as MD of ADM Milling.Pinner joined ADM in 1999 and held several commercial positions for ADM in Europe before joining ADM Milling ...
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Facing up to the healthier british male
Can pasties ’face’ the challenge of cosmetic surgery? Before we answer this eyebrow-raising question, here are some interesting facts to consider:n 65% of the UK population seek food-related products to provide a health benefitn 14% wish to lose weightn 8% of males now have facial cosmetic surgeryn 19% look for ...
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Buoyant performance for retailers in third quarter
Two-thirds of retailers (62%) listed on the London Stock Exchange issued positive trading statements in the third quarter of 2007, with 100% of all food and drink retailers reporting an increase in like-for-like sales, according to a new report.The level of positive trading statements was the highest since chartered ...
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FPB petitions Chancellor on tax
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is to petition Chancellor Alistair Darling, to ease the tax burden on small businesses following his announcements in the recent Pre-Budget Report. Changes to capital gains tax, which were designed to target private equity groups, will also hit owners of smaller businesses, it says.Darling ...
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Consumer watch
I didn’t used to go in to baker’s shops all that often, apart from on the odd occasion when I fancied my absolute favourite - carrot cake. There’s a particular carrot cake, which is sold from a baker’s stall in Blackpool, and I swear it’s the best in the world!I ...
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Wheat quality down on last year’s level
The Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) has confirmed that the latest results from this year’s Cereals Quality Survey suggest the quality of wheat has dropped compared to last year.The latest Cereal Quality Survey results update is based on analysis of 25,000 wheat sample results. These show that there has been ...
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Small firms set to take a pounding
Alistair Darling delivered his first Pre-Budget Report (PBR) on 9 October, 2007. One of the related press notices begins with the sentence: "The government recognises the contribution that small businesses make to the economy and that business owners should profit from the success of their business." After reading that, small ...
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Genesis products
Northern Ireland bakery Genesis Breads has awarded a three-year contract to IPP Logipal to supply pallets from its Portadown depot for delivering the plant baker’s products to major retailers in the UK and Ireland.IPP will handle all palletised products for Genesis at its plant in Magherafelt, County Derry, to customers ...
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Healthy from the inside
Healthy ingredient technologies for use in bakery will be at the forefront of this month’s Food Ingredients Europe exhibition at London’s ExCeL.Ingredients supplier Cargill (F61) will be sharing insights on developing differentiated new products, especially healthier consumer packaged goods. The company provides ingredients relevant to heart health, digestive health and ...
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Historic occasion
Some 84 past and present members of the British Confectioners’ Association gathered in Nairn, Scotland last month for an historic annual general meeting.For the first time in the association’s 102-year history, women were admitted as members. Previously membership had been confined to men. Secretary Tim Cutress announced that the chosen ...
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Mike Holling, president, NAMB
"Summer? What summer?" is the general thought for 2007. What we will remember is the flooding that devastated businesses and displaced communities in some parts of the country.At Birds of Derby, we were very fortunate; when the heavy rain came, we just had one shop that it became impossible ...
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People
Dave Roberts, Lucy BaylemDawn FoodsSweet bakery specialist Dawn Foods has promoted Dave Roberts to national account controller for the UK, from his previous role as national account manager.Roberts will report to the commercial director for Europe and be responsible for spearheading growth in finished products, working closely with customers to ...