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AAK targets release agents market with Croda takeover
Croda International has sold its £17m-turnover Croda Food Services business to AAK UK, the UK division of global speciality oils company AAK AB.The business, based in Oldham, supplies release agents, divider oils and delivery systems to the baking industry.President of AAK UK, Ian McIntosh, said: "We are delighted to ...
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Most bakers oppose folic acid
More than half of bakers believe the Food Standards Agency is wrong to recommend the fortification of bakery products with folic acid.A British Baker poll on [http://www.bakeryinfo.co.uk] found that 52% believe fortification is the wrong course of action to recommend, whether it is at the milling or baking ...
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Lightbody performance is ’ahead of expectations’
Finsbury Food Group, which acquired Lightbody in February, will pay the vendors the maximum deferred consideration payment of £8.7m, as a result of an "excellent performance".Lightbody is "ahead of expectations", with the Thorntons’ branded cake range "particularly positive", according to a trading update released last week.Chief executive, Dave ...
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Mike Holling, president, National Association of Master Bakers
Gordon Brown has the keys to Number 10, so I wonder what the baking industry can expect from the new Prime Minister. It’s probable that high on his agenda will be health, education and welfare.The National Association (NA) is the voice of the craft industry; it is there to deal ...
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Fazer buys Russian bakery
Finland-based Fazer Group has taken a majority stake in Russian bakery OAO Volzhky Pekar.The company hopes to double Volzhky Pekar’s €32m turnover in five years, profiting from the booming bakery and snacks markets in Eastern Europe. Fazer Russia plans to increase production by 50% to 75,000 tonnes per year, focusing ...
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Ban the bullies
Sixty per cent of people say workplace harassment has become increasingly common, figures from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) show.Indeed, Hell’s Kitchen and other television reality shows arguably legitimise rudeness and what might be construed as harassment. Such behaviour is acted out everywhere, from the playground to the boardroom, and ...
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Search is on for best British producers
UK bakers are being encouraged to enter a competition to celebrate the best of British food and drink.Taste of Britain will judge products on production standards and sustainability, as well as the positive impact they make on the local community, in five categories: Best UK Food, Best UK Drink/Beverage, Best ...
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Bhs Coffee Lounge format rolls out
Bhs has announced plans to introduce bake-off at its growing chain of upmarket in-store coffee lounges.Retail director Tony Brown told British Baker that the department store chain currently has 13 Coffee Lounges in shops nationwide, after starting trials of the concept last summer.It plans to open a further 40 concessions ...
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BIE gathers pace
Latest companies to sign up for the Baking Industry Exhibition include Orbital Food Machinery, Abacus Aquameter, Pillopak and Oliver Douglas.Falcon Products, CSS Packaging Machines and Saturn Spraying have also come on board.BIE, organised by William Reed Events, will be co-located with the Convenience Retailing Show, Food & Drink Expo and ...
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Briefs
n Premier Foods plans to close six of its 11 UK sites following a review of its manufacturing facilities after the acquisition of RHM in March. The review covered Premier’s ambient factories, the RHM Culinary Brands’ factories and the RHM Customer Partnership’s Ledbury preserves factory. The six sites are set ...
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Coffee Republic signs Irish deals
Coffee Republic has signed a franchise deal that will see it launch in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.The company has reached an agreement with CR Coffee Houses to develop its coffee and deli bar concept in the two countries.The group said a first site was set to open ...
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Commodities tracker
Butter prices are in turmoil, according to June’s Bulk Dairy Market Report from Staple Dairy Products.Prices in the UK have risen by 40% since January 2007, according to the report. On butter and milk powders it says: "Supplies remain scarce and prices remain firm - and getting firmer ...
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Counter culture
Yorkshire-based Clarks Bakery has given its traditional shop an ultra-modern makeover to showcase its wide product range.The shop refit, at its Victorian-era premises in the market town of Easingwold, near York, has already generated a big sales boost, particularly as a result of its new display counter.The contents of the ...
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Rising fortunes
Over 500 craft bakers across the UK took part in the 15th National Doughnut Week, which is expected raise more than £35,000 for The Children’s Trust, a charity which provides special care, therapy and education for severely disabled children.This year the week ran in May and its sponsor, BakeMark UK, ...
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The trouble with good ideas
Never believe your own publicity: I got carried away with a previous article I had written and began to believe I was a craftsman.While visiting John Waterfield to steal more good ideas, I met Albert Waterfield and, as bold as brass, I went up to him, stuck out my hand ...
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Staff health ’should be priority’
According to Ipsos MORI research, commissioned by Investors in People, over a third of employees in the retail sector (37%) believe their employer needs to do more to improve the health and well- being of employees at work.A nationally representative quota sample of around 900 working adults were interviewed between ...
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Health watch
A US study, to be published this month in the Neurobiology of Ageing journal, has found that an increased intake of fresh blueberries could help to minimise the effects of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases associated with an ageing brain.Alzheimer’s affects over 400,000 people in the UK, according to ...
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Small shops maintain market share
The independent retail sector may be finding its niche after decades of pressure from the multiples, according to the latest TNS data.TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures, published for the 12 weeks ending 17 June 2007, found that the independent sector’s share is stable with growth rates of 8%.Edward ...
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Storming wheat prices
A price rise of up to £55 on breadmaking flour in the next two months is now tipped as "more likely than not", after wheat prices rose nearly 10% in the last week.The breadmaking wheat price for November was £142 a tonne (delivered to the north-west) last week, with industry ...
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viewpoint
As the saying goes ’it never rains, but it pours’. Or if June is anything to go by, it rains, pours, storms and floods, non-stop and without an end in sight.For a depressingly autumnal mid-summer month the elements have taken their toll, with forward wheat prices rising steeply this week ...