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Conference speakers revealed
The Federation of Bakers is preparing for its seventh annual conference, which will take place on 16 May in London.Speakers include: Dame Deidre Hutton, chair of the Food Standards Agency; Guy Farrant, director of food at Marks & Spencer; Jeya Henry, professor of human nutrition at Oxford Brookes University; and ...
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Etcetera, etc
Slicing up the high street bakery trade in Clapham - or not slicing, as the case may be - is DIY café newcomer, Breads Etcetera. It has toasters on every table with baskets of unsliced bread in the front of shop, where you cut as much bread as you like ...
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Vandemoortele management structure
Vandemoortele, the Belgian food group, has confirmed the management structure of its Lipids and Dough Division in the UK.Heading up its UK commercial activities is Adrian Roberts, commercial director UK (right). Those reporting to him include: Gordon Kirkwood, commercial director fats & oils; and Els Vancoille, commercial director for professional ...
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Poujauran’s perspective
The sandwich industry belongs to bakers," Jean-Luc Poujauran, baker and chairman of judges at the Délifrance World Cup sandwich challenge, tells me.He acknowledges that foodservice plays a major part in the distribution of good bread. Indeed, those who created the award-winning sandwiches for the competition were drawn from the foodservice ...
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Renshaw’s remit
In 1898, John F Renshaw decided to mix marzipan in his bathtub! Humble beginnings for a company that is now a leading manufacturer of marzipans, ready-to-roll icings and chocolate and jam, supplying major cake manufacturers, high street bakers and retailers.Recently, Renshaw invited about 40 members and guests of the prestigious ...
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Tuned to taste
Look at the change in our eating habits over the past 15 years. It’s all due to outside influences," says Nellie Nichols, sandwich consultant.The European Sandwich and Snacks show, which took place recently in Paris, was a showcase for many of those changes, revealed in everything from ingredients to packaging.While ...
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NewsAll hail Gail’s
Ran Avidan and Emma King of Gail’s tell Andrew Williams how the company’s second shop on London’s Portobello Road is part of a retail masterplan. See British Baker, 20 April
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Brambles Foods sold for £22m by private equity firm
Sandwich manufacturer Brambles Foods has been sold for £22 million by NBGI Private Equity.The new owner is Adelie Food Holdings, which is backed by Duke Street Capital. Brambles will run alongside Adelie’s existing sandwich businesses, Food Partners and Buckingham Foods.Richard Morley, NBGI director, said: "Brambles has been a real success ...
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Unifine adopts natural stance
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients held its annual Ingredients in Action day on 28 March, with demonstrations by Unifine’s chef patissier Graham Dunton.The objective of the one-day workshop, held at Unifine’s development kitchen suite in Milton Keynes, was to equip visitors with a knowledge of bakery ingredients.During the session, in ...
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WHEN the ego has landed In bakery the ego has a lot to answer for when it comes to the argument for making your own products and expanding your business, argues Tony Phillips
Recently I was reading a biography of Al Capone, the Chicago gangster boss of the 1920s, and it made me think of the comparison between him and the government. Both stole from the people and told their victims it was for their own good.Yet one great difference was that Mr ...
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A beautiful time
T he French are renowned - or reviled - for having the most relaxed working hours in Europe. But someone must have forgotten to tell the slavishly hardworking Eric Rousseau, baker, patissier and chocolatier at north London’s Belle Époque. He puts the ’work’ into ’work ethic’."I get up at midnight ...
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Small businesses see Budget blow
In his 11th Budget speech, Chancellor Gordon Brown talked about continued growth for the economy, increased business investment, incentives to save, and support for families. Brown confirmed his intention to modernise the corporate tax system and announced measures to help combat climate change.Corporation tax ratesThe Chancellor announced a reduction in ...
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Manx tensions rise on ’dumped’ breads
The Isle of Man’s Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether the £6m indigenous baking industry could be under threat from cheap imported bread.An allegation that cut-price bread was being "dumped" on the Isle of Man was discussed last week at the House of Keys, the lower house in the ...
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Briefs
n The London & South Eastern Region of the National Association of Master Bakers (LASER) held its AGM last month, with 24 members in attendance. Anthony Kindred stepped up as the new president for 2007 and Ian Hedges as the president elect. Chris Beaney was the outgoing president.n The Federation ...
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Skeltons buyer sought
Administrators say the AC Skelton & Sons bakery business will continue to operate as normal as a search for a buyer gets under way.Hull-based Skeltons, which has 43 shops, called in administrators on March 27, blaming supermarket competition and a recent significant increase in energy costs.Adminstrators Mark Loftus and Edward ...
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Strike at Park Cakes over redundancies
Around 1,000 people, 95% of staff, took part in a one-day strike at Park Cake Bakeries in Oldham on Monday - the first strike since 1976 at the bakery.The Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union organised the 24-hour strike over redundancy plans.Some 400 staff are currently on a 90-day redundancy ...
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Catering to Cooks
Cooks has invested in a new system for capturing sales and trading information across its 120 bakery shops. The company previously used manual systems for recording sales data, which were often slow and incomplete. A broadened product range, introduced across all Cooks stores, increased the pressure on store managers to ...
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Local champions
A thousand people, including Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal leader Sir Menzies Campbell, packed out a Westminster rally last week in support of a bill designed to save Britain’s high streets.The Sustainable Communities Bill is a private member’s bill, tabled by Conservative MP Nick Hurd, which aims to give ...
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Julian Hunt, communications director, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
Food manufacturers have grown used to engaging in the debate about the health of the nation in recent years. They fully understand why they have been challenged to play a positive role in finding solutions to the complex issues at the heart of society’s concerns about rising obesity levels. Now, ...