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Best of British at German fair
Bakery companies will be showcasing the best of British at this year’s Anuga trade show in Cologne, Germany.More than 60 UK food and drink producers have so far signed up to be at the show which runs from 13-17 October 2007 at Köln Messe, Cologne. UK exhibitors include Artisan ...
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McDonald’s moves into cafés in Japanese market
Some 1,190 Japanese customers queued in Tokyo for more than two hours last week to get into a new café-style eatery, serving sandwiches and croissants with vegetable soups from McDonald’s.The premises in the capital’s Shibuya ward is one of 15 McCafés set to open in Japan - some of them ...
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Cheques in decline as payment method
The number of retail customers writing out cheques for goods has plummeted by almost a half in Britain during the past decade - faster than in any other sector, a report by the UK payments association APACS has revealed.The organisation said that, in 1996, 31% of shoppers had paid by ...
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Poll reveals deregulation favour
Some 57% of our readers are in favour of bread weights being deregulated, according to the latest poll on British Baker’s website [http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk], with the remaining 43% against the proposals.Currently, UK law states that wrapped loaves weighing over 300g must weigh 400g or a multiple of 400g, such as 1,200g. ...
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Greggs enters new phase of promotion
Comedian Paddy McGuinness has resumed his love affair with the products of high street bakery chain Greggs.Greggs launched a second phase of a multi-million marketing campaign on Monday (3 September).The £1.5 million ad blitz, to run through the autumn, features 10- to 40-second slots on TV and radio as well ...
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Lion set to snare Nordic firm
Weetabix owner Lion Capital is on the brink of clinching a multi-million-pound deal to buy one of Scandinavia and the Baltic region’s leading breadmakers, Vaasan & Vaasan.It comes 18 months after Lion Capital, in partnership with Blackstone, purchased Cadbury Schweppes’ European Beverages division - now called Orangina - for £1.26 ...
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Gaining kudos in Kidderminster
A traditional small family bakery, situated in the terraced back streets of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, can trace its roots back to 1886 and still uses the same traditional recipes from over 120 years ago. Over the last year, Tony’s Bakery has been exposed to a whole new generation of bread lovers, ...
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Ingredients Watch
US-based bakery brand Dunkin’ Donuts said that it has developed a new oil in order to create donuts free from trans fats.The donuts have been served in approximately 400 restaurants throughout the US, as part of a nationwide blind test over a period of four months, said Dunkin’ Donuts in ...
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Reap the rewards of investment
In his article ’Let’s take training to task’ (British Baker, 17 August) Chris North, bakery tutor at Castle College, Sheffield, stated that: "Industry must take charge of its own standards, training and education - not the government. The government... came up with NVQs, none of which are fit for purpose."Improve ...
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Location, location...
Small bakery manufacturers at the show were upbeat amid a backdrop of increasing consumer awareness of food origins and a retailing drive to ’think local’.However, The Heatherslaw Bakery doesn’t talk about ’food miles’; ’food metres’ is closer to the truth. This top-end cake and biscuit bakery stands on the same ...
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Price pressures
Even though the cost of key raw materials, including flour, dairy and vegetable oil products, is rising at phenomenal rates, several of the supermarkets are in the midst of a price war.Last month, Tesco launched a £4 million advertising campaign, boasting about its low prices and Asda announced £250m of ...
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Wrapid response
With a name that works on many levels - well, two at least - this food-to-go chain thinks it has cracked the speedy service formula with wrap-based products. Joint director Stephen Minall and cohorts spent two years tracking consumer eating habits in the UK; they also racked up a few ...
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viewpoint
T here is one overriding story this summer: wheat and commodity price increases. They have affected the interim results of Premier (pg 4) and they have affected every strand of bakery. I have taken more phone calls and comments about this subject recently than anything else. It has made ...
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Grocery sales slow to 3%
Growth in consumer spending in the grocery market is slowing, according to figures compiled by TNS Worldpanel.Market growth dipped to 3% in the 12 weeks ending 12 August, down from the three-year peak of 6% for the period ending 20 May. The downturn, says TNS, reflects renewed concentration on price ...
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Chinese beet deal for ABF
International food, ingredients and retail group Associated British Foods (ABF) has announced a deal with the China-based Hebei Tian Lu Sugar Group in a move to boost sugar beet yields.The formation of the joint venture, to be called Bo Tian, is awaiting the approval of the Chinese government expected at ...
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Polish Bakery gains acclaim
The bakery market in Poland is the yin to the UK’s yang. Dominated as it is by the craft sector, with nearly nine in 10 loaves sold unpackaged and produced ’artisanally’, it holds up a mirror to the UK, where four in five loaves are plant-baked. But craft baking in ...
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Vandemoortele acquires Polish frozen bread firm
Belgian food group Vandemoortele has strengthened its presence in central Europe with the takeover of the Polish frozen bakery firm Gourmand Poland, part of Group Dossche, for an undisclosed sum.Gourmand Poland’s most important product is frozen bread, but it also produces frozen puff pastries, Viennese pastries and snacks. It has ...
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Salt levels in bread vary across country
Results from an interim report into salt levels in foods suggests there may be wide regional variations in salt levels in breads.The report from local government body Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) suggests breads and rolls from a specific region of the UK are exceptionally high in salt.LACORS ...
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The bonus scheme bogus On what basis do you establish a bonus scheme, asks Tony Phillips, who argues that such incentives are not necessarily the best method of rewarding hard work
Never have I been able to understand or formulate a good bonus scheme.The more I have looked at the problem, the more convinced I become that they are simply not an efficient means of rewarding an employee or encouraging them to greater effort.supporting a hypothesisWhenever I talk to ...
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Aulds enters a new era
Operating from three different factories on the same site in the space of less than two years is not an exercise Aulds managing director Alan Marr would like to repeat. But he recognises the experience has enabled his company to hone the design of its latest £7m production base to ...