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Royal approval for pasty investment
The Duke of York visited Crantock Bakery in Cornwall last week to unveil a plaque marking the completion of a £1.1m investment in the site.The investment boosts the bakery’s capacity by 40,000 pasties to 120,000 pasties per day. It includes an extended freezing area, the creation of an extra ...
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BakeMark UK
BakeMark UK (Wirral, Merseyside) has developed a range of cookies and doughnut mixes, which are licensed with Nestlé.The company’s indulgent Rolo doughnut is made with toffee and topped with a chocolate icing and real toffee pieces, while BakeMark UK’s Toffee Crisp doughnut is filled with toffee sauce, and finished with ...
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Fletchers Bakery
In our 16th February issue of British Baker we carried a report that Vision Capital planned to close the Fletchers Bakery at Sheffield. This was incorrect and no such closure is planned. We apologise to Vision Capital and Fletchers Bakeries for this error and regret the distress and confusion that it has caused. In a statement to British Baker, Fletchers has reconfirmed that a consultation process is now underway with Trade Union representatives and employees regarding the future employment requirements of the business. The consultation underway affects up to 80 job roles. The decision to initiate the consultation has been taken on purely economic grounds, as the business has suffered both from the impact of a fire which destroyed a third of the site in July 2006 and also from a continued loss of market share and increasing cost of materials. Fletchers understands that this process is likely to cause concern for those potentially affected and their families and has thanked employees and trade unions for their efforts and continued support at this time. The company will make every effort to support those employees affected.
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Basco on a mission to find ’lost’ bread baskets
Bread baskets firm Bakers Basco plans to focus on reducing basket losses in 2007, as it rolls out an industry standard 10-loaf basket.Basco was set up by trade body the Federation of Bakers in March 2005 to manage the roll out of a standard bread basket among Tesco plant bread ...
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Byron Bay Cookie
CompanyThe Byron Bay Cookie Company (Park Royal, London) has announced the launch of its new ’lifestyle’ cookies; a range of healthy alternatives to its classic versions.The new Fruit & Nut Medley cookie has been designed to appeal to people eating on the run. This dairy-free ...
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Briefs
n A teenage robber, who held up a bakery in Burnley with a rolling pin, before making off with a chocolate orange gateau, has been sentenced to nine months in jail by Burnley Magistrates Court. Drunken Andre Lennox (19) pulled off victim Robert McKenna’s glasses, threatened him with a rolling ...
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Country Choice
Country Choice (Orpington, Kent) has two varieties of fun-size, thaw-and-sell muffins in its Bake & Bite range, available in Double Chocolate or Blueberry flavours.Supplied with film-coated Bake & Bite multi-buy bags, they also come with a two-part label, one part of which contains the product details and date, the other ...
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Coffee Republic reduces costs
London chain Coffee Republic has cut costs at its head office by 25%, after reporting that the value of its net assets had fallen below half the value of paid up share capital.At an Extraordinary General Meeting on 8 February, a statutory requirement under the Companies Act 1985 when this ...
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Commodities watch
The Salt Manufacturers’ Association (SMA) is reminding bakers of the benefits of salt, otherwise know as sodium chloride, and says that it should not simply be dismissed as unhealthy.The SMA says that as every baker knows salt enhances flavour, increases the shelf-life of baked goods and performs specific functions when ...
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Dawn Foods
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcester) has launched Extra Moist Muffin Mix into its Baker’s Select Range in two classic flavours - original and chocolate.Bakers can further extend their range offering by using other inclusions, such as chocolate chunks, fresh or dried fruit, toffee pieces or nuts and finish with Dawn Foods ...
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Ducks in a row
nd fun. But unlike the thousands of other businesses, which make that claim, you actually believe her - around about the time that she gets onto the subject of ducks.The head of the multi-award winning company may have been pretty busy last year, selling her company, expanding her factory and ...
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Mono Equipment
A complete range of Belshaw doughnut-making equipment is being offered in the UK market by Mono Equipment (Queensway, Swansea).Belshaw has developed systems that are designed specifically to meet the needs of bakeries, doughnut shops, wholesale bakeries and supermarket chains.The Belshaw Mark VI Automatic Doughnut System is a mid-sized ...
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Fabulous frangipanes
Our Fruit Frangipane won us the New Baked Product Award at the Baking Industry Awards a few years ago. This simple recipe is a variation of a classical fruit and almond tart and has a shelf life of two or three days. A selection displayed in a shop window makes ...
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Moy Park Foodservice
Moy Park Foodservice (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire) offers branded donuts under the Kitchen Range Foods label.Moy Park Foodservice’s individually wrapped donuts are available in chocolate and strawberry flavours with hundreds and thousands on top.Matt Godbold, marketing manager for Moy Park Foodservice, says: "We have seen consistent value and volume growth in the ...
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Sara Lee sales rise
US bakery, drinks and household products company Sara Lee Corporation announced last week that net sales for its international bakery segment rose 5% to $199m in the second quarter ending 30 December, driven by favorable foreign currency exchange rates.But volumes in its international bakery business were flat in the quarter, ...
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LETTERS
Training continuesGill Brooks Lonican, chief executive of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA)After reading the letter from Elaine Ead (February 9, pg 6) I feel the need to correct a number of inaccuracies.Her comments on the article ’NA takes tough decision to close training section’ (26 January) are ...
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Making the most of muffins
BB’s Coffee and Muffins is a place where teenage girls congregate, sipping cappuccinos eating cookies and catching up on the latest celebrity gossip. Meanwhile the odd ’suit’ pops in for a quick fumble through the newspaper, a fresh baguette and double espresso. It also offers a safe haven for the ...
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McDougall’s
McDougall’s range of snack mixes, from RHM Foodservice (Addlestone, Surrey), enables bakers to produce cookies, doughnuts and muffins easily, using McDougall’s Muffin Mixes, offered in three varieties: chocolate, toffee and plain. The mixes can be adapted with extra flavours and ingredients, such as fruit and chocolate.McDougall’s Cookie Mix allows bakers ...