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Finishing with a flourish
JaiOn our third day at the Richemont School, we met with eagerness. After breakfast, we continued with our coursework, keen to see the different finishing and presentation of the final products, not to mention the tasting!The final result was an impressive display. It was hard to believe that we had ...
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Q up for franchising
The made-to-order sandwich category has been in long-term decline, but that trend was bucked with the advent of Subway.As noted in British Baker, 9 March, pg 4, the 2007 Key Note Bread and Bakery report says high street bakers increasingly view sandwich chains and cafés as the main competition, ahead ...
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Yummy roll-out gathers pace
Turkey specialist Bernard Matthews says it has received a high level of interest from high street and takeaway retailers as it prepares to roll out its new Yummy food-to-go brand.The range, including sandwiches, salads, smoothies and snacks, was launched in 70 Superdrug stores last November and rolled out to 297 ...
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Good start for IAWS
International food company IAWS Group this week announced that it has had a good start to 2007 with a "very satisfactory" performance achieved across the business.The Delice de France and Cuisine de France owner’s interim results for the half year ended 31 January 2007, stated that Group revenue was 17.3% ...
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Room to improve
In today’s competitive bread improver business, knowledge and understanding of your marketplace is essential.The last couple of years have been good for the bread and bakery products market, with retail sales increasing by 2.5% to reach £3.17bn in 2005, helped by the resurging popularity of the big brands. This has ...
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Sonneveld
Sonneveld says its block improver, Proson, is easy to use for making artisan-style products."It was the first fat-based block improver in the UK," says Martin Churchill, technical sales manager for Sonneveld in the UK and Ireland. "This unique block form is perfect for the artisan baker, because you benefit from ...
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viewpoint
I have just returned from the Délifrance Sandwich World Cup Final (pg 4 and future issue) in France. It was sheer delight to hear French craft baker and chairman of judges Jean-Luc Pouvaran speak in passionate terms about mother doughs, the art of kneading and slow fermentation to produce ...
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I am sorry to hear about the troubles afflicting Skeltons of Hull (pg 4). The family company has 43 shops and 670 employees. It is continuing to trade in administration and blames price increases and supermarket competition.Whatever the reasons, this has been a long time coming - six years in ...
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Gerard NelsonBaker PerkinsGerard Nelson has been appointed global sales manager for Baker Perkins’ range of equipment for the biscuit and cracker industries. He joins the company from an Italian capital equipment manufacturer, where he was responsible for managing a network of distributors and agents in South America, Europe, India and ...
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International activity
Bakery suppliers including RHM Bread Bakeries, Bagel Nash, Mr Bagels, Walkers Shortbread, Fuerst Day Lawson and GR Wright & Sons will be exhibiting at international trade fair, Anuga, held in Cologne from 13-17 October.The show is to incorporate Anuga Organic for the first time, a show for organic goods.The amount ...
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Apuro
The Atlanta gastronorm range of fridges and freezers from Apuro has been re-designed to significantly improve operating efficiency, cut down on energy use and increase internal storage space, says the company.The four-shelf, single-door AT70TN, has a capacity of 650 litres (23 cu ft), and energy consumption of 3.6kWh ...
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Kirk Hunter, chief executive of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers
Politicians are putting the finishing touches to the various parties’ manifestos for the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May.The experts predict that the election result will be too close to call. We are told that the priority battleground will be on who has the right strategy to develop the Scottish economy. ...
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Sheffield competition attracts healthy turnout
Nearly 50 craft bakers and students from South Yorkshire, took part in the annual Sheffield Bakery competition on 28 February.The annual competition was open to students attending Sheffield College, Doncaster College and Rother Valley College, as well as local craft bakers, including Staniforths (Rotherham), H Hofmann and Sons (Wakefield) and, ...
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Catex woos bakers
Dairyland Cuisine is to distribute Pat the Baker breads to foodservice outlets throughout Ireland. The company introduced the breads to its customers at the Catex tradeshow in Dublin last month."We want to be a one-stop-shop, so bread is a great addition to our range," Dave Kiernan told British Baker. "We’ve ...
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Co-op revamps bakery offer
The Co-operative Group is overhauling its bakery department, as part of a new strategy to make its 3,000 shops "more exciting".The group launched a "truly irresistible" premium brand this week, including speciality bakery products, benchmarked on quality against Marks & Spencer. Co-op category development manager, produce and bakery, Jill McCann ...
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Lowering the cost of bakery maintenance
Reducing the costs of the bread-making process while maintaining quality has been of great benefit to one Kent-based organic baker.Artisan Bread Original is a specialist baker located in a very hard water area. Maintenance costs for scaled-up steam pipes and steam chambers in ovens and proving rooms were escalating due ...
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Mono Bakery Equipment
The compact Omega Depositor, part of a range of confectionery depositors from Mono Equipment, enables bakers to simply and accurately control deposit shape and amount, says the company. The depositor is faster than by hand and guarantees consistency, it adds.
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Keeping claims at bay
According to the Employ-ment Tribunal (ET) Service’s Annual Report 2005-06, 127,297 ET claims were received by employment tribunals in that year, whereas the number of claims presented in the previous year was 86,181.Given the statistics it is not surprising that, according to a recent survey by the Centre for Effective ...
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Let the lessons begin
JaiBreakfast at the Richemont School was an extravagant affair. Never have I seen such a variety of bread products. Our translator Sigisfried Bienz met us after breakfast and introduced us to our main tutor, Fredy Eggenschwiler, the chief confectioner. While in the main reception, Mr Bienz pointed out a wall ...
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Potential buyers rumoured to be eyeing up Benjys’ sites
Sandwich chain Benjys’ 47-shop estate is being broken up, after it went into administration on 6 February for the second time in a year.Private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, which bought Benjys in July, appointed KPMG administrators after building up rent arrears. However, the leases of 41 sites had not yet ...