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Greencore moves into sushi
Greencore Sandwiches has bought sushi producer Sushi San, based in Crosby, Liverpool. Founded seven years ago, the business produces sushi under both the ’Sushi San’ and customer own-brand labels.The founders of the business will work with Greencore site director for Crosby, Graham Simpson, to ensure a smooth hand-over.Commenting on the ...
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iBrand launched
The Cotswold Food Partnership (CFP) has launched a ’concept to shelf’ product development service. iBrand will develop the recipe, source ingredients and manufacturing, develop branding, packaging and marketing, and assist with sales, said the firm.CFP founder Carl Le Neveu said: "We’re here to help companies with limited NPD expertise, ...
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Italian shows make an impact
SIAB bakery show, which took place recently in Verona, affirmed Italy as one European country where the craft sector, with over 70% of sales, is holding its market share against the supermarkets.Major exhibitors, including Polin, represented in the UK by Brook Food Equipment, took stands, as did Rondo and first-time ...
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Your letters
The real weakness in the case of adding folic acid to flour or bread is that it reeks of mass-medication for a problem that may affect a miniscule number of women of childbearing age and their offspring.It has no relevance in medical terms for the male population, children, most young ...
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Natural Taste
Nightmares with planning permission, finding out the machinery you’ve bought is completely unsuitable for your purpose, delays with getting the packaging and design sorted, a complete lack of government grants available and banks with a stonewall approach to funding new businesses... newly-formed Taste Essential was unfortunate to fall foul of ...
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NewsWimborne’s winner
The Artisan Food Centre, based at the Dorset Smokery & Charcuterie, Hurn, Dorset, also the home of craft bakery, Quinney’s, ran a competition to flush out old bread recipes.Supported by Christchurch Food & Wine Festival, Big Barn and Breakfast & Brunch, the competition ran for three months, from 4 February, ...
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NewsIn-stores go upmarket
Kensington High St in London could hold the key to the future of supermarket in-store bakeries as Marks & Spencer go head-to-head with new arrival Whole Foods Market, as both retailers trial their latest high street bakery concepts. Find out more in British Baker 22 June
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GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION Where in the Magna Carta is it written that the government can tell me how to run my business, asks an aggrieved Tony Phillips
Have you ever wondered where in the wedding certificate it says that a man’s hair becomes communal property when he is married? Where does it say that the wife decides when it needs cutting and grooming? I never tell my wife when to go to the hairdresser.You may well think, ...
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Scottish training centre open to all
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers’ (SAMB’s) new training centre in Larbert is now fully equipped and ready for business.The centre at Mathieson’s bakery near Falkirk is open to everyone in the UK baking trade, not just Scottish bakers, and has taken two years to develop. It comprises a test ...
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All from scratch
Amidst the cacophony of healthy-eating messages and manufacturers scrambling to put a healthy spin on their products, it’s refreshing to hear one organic baker proudly declaring her cakes as ’unhealthy’."Six years ago, you either had good cakes that were not organic, or you had organic cake that was a compromise ...
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Asda: brand building does little for bread category
Brand-building activity, such as a relaunch, has a positive impact on a particular bakery brand, but has a limited effect on the category’s incremental sales at Asda.That’s according to Asda bread buyer Debbie Woodhouse, who said activity tends to switch sales between brands.She said: "This can be beneficial when ...
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Bakers attend Tesco event
Around 14,000 people visited Tesco’s Enjoy the Taste of Scotland... Get to Know Your Locals event in Edinburgh in May.Exhibitors included a selection of Scotland’s bakeries and ingredient manufacturers from over 80 regions, including Allied Bakeries, Macphie of Glenbervie, Bell Bakers, Finsbury Food Group, Ashers Bakery, Patak’s and ...
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Northern’s bakery sales fall
Northern Foods blamed a combination of its limited 11% market share and annual 1% market growth for a poor performance in the biscuits category last week.Profit in its bakery business fell from £23.1m to £17m on sales down 5.1% to £197.3m in the 12 months to 31 March. However, it ...
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Mrs Beeton’s Gingernuts
These biscuits are robust in every way, easy to make and satisfyingly solid. It may seem odd to use coriander in sweet biscuits, but it gives real warmth to the flavour. Black treacle is such a dominant taste that you may prefer to replace most of it with golden syrup.This ...
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Dublin’s Brennans debuts Polish loaf
Thousands of Poles living in Northern Ireland can now get a taste of home after Dublin-based Brennans launched a traditional Polish bread called ’chleb polski’.Brennans claims to be the first bakery in the region to offer customers the bread, which will be baked under the careful guidance of Polish bakers.Colin ...
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Briefs
n Skills sector council Improve will launch its new interactive website on June 28, offering modules in bakery which count towards level 2 and 3 NVQ. They can be completed online with tutor support at a cost of between £30 and £290 each.n British Bakeries has suspended deliveries to retail ...
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Cooplands buys Skeltons
Cooplands of Scarborough has bought Skeltons from administration in a deal which almost doubles its estate from 43 to 77 shops and makes it the UK’s fourth-largest bakery chain.The deal includes 34 of Hull-based Skeltons’ 43 shops as well as the Skeltons factory in Lorraine Street, east Hull, which is ...
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Gunns makes a TV clanger
Gunns Bakery appeared on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen programme last weekend, with a slot dedicated to its famous Bedfordshire Clangers.June Goff, a baker from the traditional family craft bakery, established in 1928 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, demonstrated to viewers how to make a gammon and apple clanger.Clangers were traditionally made by ...
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Commodities tracker
Dairy market forecasters are warning that bakers can expect a sharp increase in dairy prices over the next few weeks and throughout the summer as global prices reach an all time high.Market prices for commodities such as butter and especially milk powders have increased by 30-75% over the past six ...