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Baguette Viennoise
This dough is an alternative to brioche - although not as rich - and much quicker to make.Offer it to your customers as an alternative to English tea breads. It’s a recipe I teach regularly in my bread classes, and everyone finds it very simple to make. As kids, we ...
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Sainsbury’s signs up Battle Bake House
A family-owned bakery in East Sussex has won a contract with Sainsbury’s as part of the retailer’s Supply Something New initiative.Battle Bake House in Bexhill won a listing to supply three of its own-brand cakes to 60 Sainsbury’s stores in the south east under the scheme, launched last year, which ...
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Founder of Pat The Baker dies
Pat Higgins, founder and owner of Pat the Baker in Ireland, has died aged 84. He and his wife Rita, who died in 1991, set up the bakery in Granard, Co Longford, her home town, in 1953.Pat was from Kilkelly, Co Mayo. He used his local nickname of Pat the ...
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British Bakeries in consultation over site closures
British Bakeries said last week it was consulting on closing its Bradford bakery and scaling down activities at its Telford depot. It also refused to rule out possible future closures at other sites.British Bakeries, owned by Premier Foods, said increased self-sufficiency of operations in the south of England was a ...
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Independent bakeries perform
Privately owned bakeries are increasing in value faster than their corporate competitors, making them potential takeover targets.This is the finding of a new report, Portfolio Analysis of the Bakery Industry, from Plimsoll Publishing, that highlights exclusivity, niche products and unique services as other potentially attractive features of independent bakeries.Another more ...
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Gordon Polson, director, Federation of Bakers
For many years, plant bakers have undertaken a process of salt reduction. We have long recognised the importance of responding to consumer needs.While the media are keen to portray the food industry as villains, risking the nation’s health by filling their products with salt, the plant baking sector is a ...
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Harvest festival to raise funds for BBS
The Worshipful Company of Bakers is to host a harvest festival service in aid of the Bakers’ Benevolent Society (BBS) on 7 October.The service, which will feature bellringers and a full choir, will take place at St John the Baptist church on Epping High Street.It will start at 5pm, followed ...
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Mutually beneficial
The success of Britain’s bakery sector is built around a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with the major supermarkets.Last week, on these pages, it was reported that a recent survey of UK food suppliers had revealed that 83% of company directors expected to see more firms within their sector go ...
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Briefs
Inspection and certification provider SAI Global/EFSIS is now able to carry out assessments against the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard. The standard looks at every aspect of how a company’s operations affect the environment, from waste management to its carbon footprint. Inspections can be carried out in conjunction with recognised ...
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Commodities tracker
Some prices in the dairy industry have effectively doubled since Jan/Feb 2007. As the bakery sector approaches its busiest time of year, dairy supplies have become even more scarce, exacerbated by the seasonal decrease in milk supply.Butter from Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Australia and even the US has been imported ...
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Consumer view
I think that bread is under-sold. In a restaurant, for example, it is often used as a distraction before the starter or main course.My wife and I go to a lovely fish restaurant in Ockley, Surrey, called Bryce’s. The bread there is something else. I always try to catch the ...
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Costa sales up driven by new store openings
Whitbread said its Costa business saw substantial sales increase driven by new store openings and a strong like-for-like performance, in a trading update this week.The company, which also owns the budget Premier Inn hotel chain, said it had opened 76 UK Costa stores (or a net of 63 if ...
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Further flour price increases predicted as costs rocket
Millers and bakers are going through "hair tearing" times as wheat and commodity prices soar, says the National Association of British and Irish Millers (Nabim).Now millers are warning that further flour price increases may be required, despite a rise this month. Breadmaking wheat prices are at record levels, doubling over ...
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Gail LindsayRich ProductsPremium frozen and ambient bakery products supplier Rich Products has appointed Gail Lindsay to the role of UK marketing manager. Lindsay, who previously worked as consumer and business to business marketing manager for Ordnance Survey, will be based at the company’s headquarters in Fareham. She will drive the ...
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viewpoint
August is traditionally a quiet month - not so in the baking industry! Instead we see the price of wheat hit an all-time world high and another possible big closure at Premier Foods-owned British Bakeries.The news about the highest-ever world wheat prices made all the business pages of the daily ...
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International activity
Sara Lee Corporation announced last week that its international bakery sales were up 7.8% and its North American retail bakery sales were up 6.8% for the 12-month period ending 30 June, 2007.The company revealed in a statement that North American retail bakery performed well, due to increased prices, procurement and ...
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Martyn Ainsley, MD, Ainsleys of Leeds
I was dismayed to read in recent copies of The Telegraph (7 August) and Yorkshire Post contentious plans from the Communities and Local Government Committee to allow councils to levy a supplementary rate of tax of up to 10%.It is completely unacceptable that government should seek to pass on costs ...
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Bakery supplier bounces back
North-east bakery supplier Tindale & Stanton says it is back to full strength, expanding its new product development facilities and looking at new lines, two years after a fire destroyed its factory.The fire meant that the company lost 25% of its business overnight. "We had to adapt to survive," ...
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Rondo steps up for bakers
Normally, when I get an invitation to "come and see the latest additions to our new make-up line", the sender is a beauty firm - the likes of Estée Lauder or L’Oréal.But in bakery ’make-up’ is somewhat different. And this time, the sender was the well-known Mike Johnson of Rondo, ...
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Don’t disparage ’cheap’ bread
The baking industry has been criticised for trying to make bread cheap. On these pages, organic campaigner Andrew Whitley dismissed as "myth" that low price is compatible with quality. Elsewhere, Craig Sams, founder of Green & Blacks organic chocolate, has said that "the price we pay [for cheap bread] is ...