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Boost for UK bread
The bread and bakery products market saw its best year of sales growth in four years in 2006, according to the new Key Note 2007 report, of which British Baker has gained an exclusive preview.The report says that the bread and bakery products market was worth £3.27bn at retail selling ...
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Briefs
n Chatwins has invested £40,000 in setting up a new venture called Chatwins Direct. The bakery will deliver lunch to workers in the Crewe and Nantwich area, including sandwiches, drinks, homemade soups, pies and pasties. Chatwins aims to create a fleet of eight vehicles over the next year.n Krispy ...
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Pret A Manger plans business expansion
Sandwich chain Pret A Manger plans to open at least 25 new sites around the UK by the end of the year and overhaul 85 of its 155 existing sites.Commercial director Simon Hargraves told British Baker that the company plans to open in locations including Southampton and Cheshire Oaks. Around ...
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Saffron cake
Saffron cakes have traditionally been made in Devon and Cornwall, especially around Easter when they are eaten with clotted cream on Good Friday.This tradition is said to have started more than 2,000 years ago when traders from the Middle East exchanged saffron for Cornish tin. Saffron is the world’s most ...
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Carrs hit the history trail
To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Carr’s Flour, a new national walking trail, The Miller’s Way, has been officially opened in Cumbria. At 51 miles long, the trail starts in Kendal, ends in Carlisle and traverses some of the county’s most spectacular scenery. Commemorating the journey made by company founder ...
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Renshaw plays host to Richemont Club members
Members of the Richemont Club (Great Britain) descended on Renshaw in Liverpool last week for a tour around the factory and to see live demonstrations at its test bakery. About 40 members and guests of the Richemont Club attended the event on 28 February.The first demonstration was given by ...
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Commodities watch
Bakers and millers expecting to see a continued drop in energy costs may be disappointed, NABIM director general Alex Waugh has warned. Tensions with Iran, over the detention of 15 British navy personnel in the Gulf, have pushed up oil prices, which have been rising to their highest levels this ...
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Costa turns in positive sales
Costa Coffee’s sales were up by 22.1% and 6.7% like-for-like in the 50 weeks to 15 February 2007, parent Whitbread said last week.In a trading update, Alan Parker, chief executive said a rapid expansion was continuing at Costa and sister company Premier Travel Inn. He said: "The food offer has ...
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Crowcon
The new Gasman CO2 detector from Crowcon, a Halma company, is small, light and easy to use.When potentially hazardous levels of CO2 are detected, the Gasman alerts the user with a loud 95dBA alarm, an extremely bright red/blue visual warning and also by vibrating.The Gasman is so small, it can ...
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Delfield SADIA
The Delfield SADIA range of Gastronorm single- and double-door upright fridges has been revamped to include a Mono-Bloc system.This new development means that the evaporator is now no longer within the fridge, but is set on top with the compressor, the company says. Not only does this give greater capacity ...
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Dipix Europe
Dipix Europe has installed an advanced automated inspection system at Lantmannen Unibake’s bakery plant in Örebro, Sweden. The online machine vision system inspects hamburger buns at high speed, measuring a range of critical 3D parameters and removing any defective buns.
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Edme
Cereal ingredient specialist Edme has announced the commissioning of a Satake ESM Alphascan Colour Sorter at its plant in Mistley, Essex.Colour Sorters use diffused light to mask ’good’ product as it passes a series of cameras, enabling non-standard material - objects that are lighter or darker - to be identified ...
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ETI ThermaData
The new range of ETI ThermaData loggers are designed for use in a wide range of environments - from chill cabinets to refrigerated lorries.The waterproof ThermaData loggers offer improved performance over previous low-cost data-loggers by providing 0.5°C accuracy, up to 4,000 temperature readings and high/low digital ...
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Finsbury looks to organic expansion
Finsbury Food Group said it planned to expand its organic bread business, as it posted interim results for the six months to 31 December on 30 March.The company, which acquired celebration cakes company Lightbody of Hamilton in February, said it saw continued sales growth across its business, with sales ...
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Thermo Fisher SCIENTIFIC
Thermo Fisher SCIENTIFIC has introduced the Thermo Scientific Powerx - a new line of high-performance X-ray systems for the baking industry.The Powerx family complements the Thermo Scientific EZx and PROx x-ray systems, says the firm.
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Foreign foray
Recent statistics released by market development consultancy Food from Britain (FFB) show British bakery exports are booming, with sales of bread, biscuits and cakes increasing by nearly 7% over the January-September 2006 period, reaching £351 million. And with UK companies respected for their high-quality products, there has never been a ...
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Paul tests out takeaway format
fPaul UK, the French bakery chain, is trialling a "takeaway" store, near Fenchurch Street in London, while continuing to expand its sit-down café format.Paul’s 16 other sites in London are 1,800sq ft to 2,000sq ft with seating internally and externally. The new 500sq ft format has no internal seating. All ...
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Patak’s packs a fresh punch
Latest UK retail figures suggest that demand for long-life Indian breads is increasing by some 2.3% per annum, whereas consumption of fresh products is enjoying significantly higher year-on-year growth of 7%.Leading producer Patak’s Foods has responded to this strong demand for fresh ethnic breads by releasing new versions ...
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Health watch
Burton’s Foods, baker of Jammie Dodgers and Maryland Cookies, has become the latest supplier to remove hydrogenated vegetable oil from all of its products.The company has pledged that its portfolio of over 100 products will be free from artificial trans fats from now on.Retailers Asda, Boots, Co-op, Marks & ...
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Plimsoll seeks out ’hidden jewels’
According to business analyst Plimsoll Publishing, new technology can predict the success or failure of almost any proposed acquisition in the UK and Nor- thern Ireland.The technology, Valuations, Industry analysis, Business acquisitions (VIBE) draws on a database of information from the age of a firm’s directors to details about ...