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ADM Milling
, the UK’s largest independent flour miller, is offering a price promotion on three of its Bakers Mixes range of premixes and concentrates.Classic American Style Yeasted Doughnut in Mix and Concentrate form, plus Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix will be promoted with a price reduction of £1 per bag.The offer is ...
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Kluman & Balter
has introduced a range of prepared bread mixes designed to allow bakers to offer a wider range of fresh speciality breads.The mixes include: Potato; Marathon Bread; Soya; Pumpkin, Sunflower and Sesame Seeded; Maize; and the new Spelt and Honey. Spelt has a nutty taste, high protein and fibre content, high ...
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BSB announces latest golf day
The British Society of Baking will hold its annual golf day at the De Vere Belfry in the West Midlands on 3 May.Members will be playing over the Brabazon Course, which has hosted the Ryder Cup four times.There will be a shotgun start - teams of four all starting and ...
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BAKELS
Health trends in the UK have seen a rapidly increasing demand from retailers for more informed front-of-pack labelling, such as declarations of reduced salt and fat, ’free from’ and organic.BAKELS has responded to this trend by introducing a range of clean-label products, which includes powdered bread, roll and bun improvers ...
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Competition time for student bakers
Competitions will be held for trainee and craft bakers at the National Federation of Bakery Student Society’s and the Institute of British Bakers Alliance (NFBSS/IBB) conference in Blackpool.The competitions at the 77th annual conference on 5-6 May at the Hotel Sheraton are open to anyone in training and cover a ...
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Bakers and franchising
Few bakers in the UK run a franchising operation and those that do, such as Wm Stephens in Scotland, Muffin Break, BB’s Coffee and Muffins and the various pasty franchises, are in a small minority.In January 2006, Euromonitor International reported that the ’bakery products fast food’ category, which includes sandwich ...
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Bakery brands star at Birmingham exhibition
Big name bakery firms including Warburtons, Allied Bakeries and Subway were among exhibitors at the Convenience Retailing Show, held in Birmingham last week.Thousands of visitors flocked to the annual show, organised by William Reed, to check out new products and services and to network.Highlights of the show included the Sandwich ...
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Cosun buys mixes supplier
Bakery ingredients company Atlanta Dethmers has been sold to Royal Cosun and will become part of its Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients business group.Atlanta’s range of bakery mixes and cream powders will complement the existing product range of Unifine, Cosun said.The takeover is effective as of 5 March 2007. ...
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Commodities tracker
The bread market is seeing growth in sales of products containing a high proportion of seeds and grains, said Frank Horan, divisional director of seeds and natural products’ division of Fuerst Day Lawson, supplier of specialist products to the baking industry.He predicted that the ranges and types of seeds seen ...
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Consumer watch
I used to go to Greggs every other day when I lived in Headingley, Leeds. There was a shop on my street so it was very convenient to buy bread, sandwiches or pasties. Occasionally I’d buy doughnuts there too. I also used to go to Ainsleys of Leeds a lot ...
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La Fornaia tie up delivers for Co-op
British Bakeries began delivering baked goods from speciality supplier La Fornaia to the Co-op group this week in a move that the retailer said would open the door to other regional suppliers.The plant baker, which supplies the Co-op’s standard bread range, has agreed to collect from La Fornaia, based in ...
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Show time for Cuisine to Go
IAWS has launched the Cuisine to Go brand, which includes hot food lines and modular display equipment, as it targets the ’food-to-go’ market.The new range is aimed at convenience retailers and also bakers who wish to incorporate a wider range, marketing director David Girdler told British Baker.Launched at last week’s ...
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Dawn Foods
Sweet bakery and ingredients specialist, is launching a new customer guide for its recently reformulated and extended Baker’s Select range of mixes and bases.The guide features details on all 16 products within the range, including the Creme Cake Base, the Carrot Cake and Brownie Mixes, the Premium Scone Mix, ...
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Doughnut week
Craft bakers including Prudens of Hertfordshire, Campbell’s of Crieff in Perthshire and JW Rose of Sheffield have signed up to take part in this year’s National Doughnut Week.Warings of Tilehurst, Berkshire, Birmingham College of Food and Technology and the Hot Bread Shop of St Anne’s, Alderney, will also be taking ...
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Get your fats straight
As nutrition and health issues continue to dominate the headlines, spreads manufacturer Flora has introduced an online training kit, designed to educate bakery staff as well as other foodservice operators about ’good’ versus ’bad’ fats.Flora parent company Unilever Foodsolutions says that fat does play a valid role in the diet, ...