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Greencore looks to step up food-to-go operation
Greencore said last week that it plans to grow its food-to-go and sandwich businesses by organic growth or through acquisition.Speaking after the convenience food group reported a 38% hike in pre-tax profits to E35.4m (£24m) for the for the half year to 30 March, chief financial officer Patrick Coveney said ...
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Tesco service levels signal recovery at Inter Link
Inter Link revealed that it achieved 99.9% service level for key customer Tesco last week as a recovery gets underway.The cake supplier, which has £60m in debts, also saw above budget sales in May, chairman Jeremy Hamer told British Baker.He added that information had now been passed to potential bidder ...
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Spice up your life
W ith competition from the multiples, it’s increasingly challenging for the small baker to offer differentiated products that stand out from the crowd.But have you ever considered the spices you use in your products? Are you one of the many who buy a pack of spice and it lasts forever ...
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BRIAN ROBINSONFederation of BakersAllied Bakeries’ chief executive Brian Robinson is to take over the role as chairman of the Federation of Bakers from Miles Warnick after being formally elected at the annual general meeting on 16 May.Robinson took up his post at Allied in January 2006, having formerly worked as ...
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Scottish soundbites
Rounding off the annual meeting of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers, this year’s ’James Scott’ Technical Sessions scored a notable first: never before had these popular sessions been addressed by the incumbent president of the Natio-nal Association of Master Bakers.Mike Holling, retail operations manager with Birds of Derby, ...
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Meals on wheels
A £500,000 TV advert shows the making of a full-sized Skoda Fabia car made out of cake. The two companies involved in ingredients sourcing and baking of the main sponge blocks, are Flour Power City Bakery and the Cake Bake Company. Renshaw supplied sugar paste. See British Baker 8 June
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Real Good Food reports encouraging start to 2007
The Real Good Food Company announced at its annual general meeting last week, that it has had an "encouraging start to the year".However, for the first four months of 2007, year-on-year sales for its bakery ingredients division, Renshaw, were down. This was "principally due to the discontinued nut sales made ...
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ABF adds grocery clout with purchase of Patak’s
Kingsmill-parent Associated British Foods has bought the Patak’s business from the founding Pathak family.The deal, set to complete in August, comprises the Patak’s brand and assets in all countries except India - including its Scottish ethnic breads bakery business.ABF said the Patak’s brand would give its grocery division ...
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International activity
The International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) will be held in Orlando, Florida on 7-10 October.An anticipated 800 exhibiting companies - including manufacturers, ingredient and equipment suppliers, distributors and packaging systems - will showcase exhibits to 20,000 attendees from all segments of the industry, from wholesale plant bakeries to artisan bakers.According ...
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Age aware
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force on 1 October, 2006, providing protection from age-related discrimination in the workplace for employees and applicants alike. Now, the first Employment Tribunal case to reference the legislation has been heard and has seen a 67-year-old employee reinstated to her post.Consequently, it is ...
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Jim Winship, director, British Sandwich Association
The recent closure of a sandwich business, due to listeria, highlights for us all the added risks chilled food operations all have to contend with these days, over and above the complexities of running any business.Like other bacteria, listeria is not something you can see or touch, yet the potential ...
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Defra sees rise in at-home bread consumption
The average person ate 0.8% more bread at home in 2005-06 than the previous year, according to Defra’s Family Food 2005-06 survey, released last week.The annual report on food and drink purchases in the UK says that the average person bought 701g of bread per week to eat at ...
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Automatic vision
In navigating a path through the Total Packaging Show’s five seas of stands - a quintet of enormous halls showcasing the shiniest new packaging and automation technology - a common theme quickly emerges: the Brave New World of bakery appears to be finally with us.Over the past 12 months, bakery ...
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Zeelandia backs bakery open day
Ingredients supplier Zeelandia and Glovers Bakery held two open days, on 18 and 19 May at the Glovers shop in Leyland, to promote speciality breads.Zeelandia provided technical support, promotional material and ingredients. The focus was on its Prokorn, Fiesta Corn, Exakt Ciabatta and O’mega products. The Exakt Ciabatta was made ...
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NewsBaker of the week
Lise Madsen of organic cake firm Honeyrose Bakery tells us why organic cakes don’t have to be healthy! See British Baker 8 June
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Business boost
The streets are alive with the smell of coffee, but not necessarily from bakery shops - an omission Chris Brown, director and co-owner of Turpin Smale Foodservice Consultancy thinks is a shame. "It is ludicrous that you can buy a pastry from many retail bakers but not a coffee to ...
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Briefs
n Latest companies to sign up as exhibitors at next year’s Baking Industry Exhibition include Pentagram, HMP Lindholme andStable Micro Systems. BIE08 takes place at Birmingham’s NEC on 6-9 April 2008.n Administrators report that talks with a buyer for the Hull-based Skeltons bakery chain are continuing. Meanwhile, Martin’s Cakes & ...
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Café couture
Cake companies were out in force at last week’s Caffè Culture show in London, hoping their exclusive delicacies would catch the eye of a passing Starbucks buyer.Caffè Culture, now in its second year, took place at the London Olympia exhibition centre, with 175 exhibitors, including Typhoo, Nestlé, Café Direct, Dairy ...
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Starbucks tops poll of UK coffee shops
The UK’s branded coffee chain market continues to expand rapidly, exceeding 3,000 outlets for the first time in May 2007 and an estimated £1.3 billion in turnover, according to new research from Allegra Strategies.Its report, UK Coffee Craze Continues, forecasts the coffee shop market will nearly double over the next ...