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Billington’s
Billington’s (Peterborough) has been selling organic cane sugar in the UK since 1992, as an extension to its range of natural unrefined cane sugars. The firm now supplies the food manufacturing, retail and foodservice sector with the widest range of organic cane sugars, it says. The range includes: Organic Unrefined ...
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Boycott high-salt bread, urges CASH
Pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) has called for a boycott of breads with high salt levels as part of its Salt Awareness Week campaign, which runs until February 4.It says that while many bakery products now contain significantly less salt than a few years ago, salt ...
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Boycott high-salt bread, urges CASH
Pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) has called for a boycott of breads with high salt levels as part of its Salt Awareness Week campaign, which runs until February 4.It says that while many bakery products now contain significantly less salt than a few years ago, salt ...
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Fine Lady: fine bread
Two months ago we reported on the ascendancy of the sliced-bread brands that were stealing market share left, right and centre from retailer own-label bread manufacturers (December 1, 2006, pg 26).David Howlett, sales director of Fine Lady Bakeries, says that in just 10 years, a national split of 70/30 own-label/branded, ...
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Fine Lady: fine bread
Two months ago we reported on the ascendancy of the sliced-bread brands that were stealing market share left, right and centre from retailer own-label bread manufacturers (December 1, 2006, pg 26).David Howlett, sales director of Fine Lady Bakeries, says that in just 10 years, a national split of 70/30 own-label/branded, ...
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Briefs
n Bakery retail group Lyndale Foods says it saw good trading in the run up to Christmas. The company, which operates the Maison Blanc, Sayers and Hampsons fascia, will complete a strategic review by April, chairman Sandy Birnie told British Baker.n TeaSmith, a new tea shop concept by John Kennedy ...
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Briefs
n Bakery retail group Lyndale Foods says it saw good trading in the run up to Christmas. The company, which operates the Maison Blanc, Sayers and Hampsons fascia, will complete a strategic review by April, chairman Sandy Birnie told British Baker.n TeaSmith, a new tea shop concept by John Kennedy ...
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Finsbury cake deal
Finsbury Food Group’s purchase of Lightbody Celebration Cakes will make it the leading player in the UK premium cakes market, it claimed this week.The premium bakery group announced this week it had agreed to buy Lightbody business, which saw £46m turnover in the year to April 2006, for £37.5m, ...
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Finsbury cake deal
Finsbury Food Group’s purchase of Lightbody Celebration Cakes will make it the leading player in the UK premium cakes market, it claimed this week.The premium bakery group announced this week it had agreed to buy Lightbody business, which saw £46m turnover in the year to April 2006, for £37.5m, ...
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Choosing certification
The organic market is expanding rapidly. Shoppers are voting with their trolleys and even a brief visit to a supermarket is likely to provide more than enough evidence of burgeoning consumer demand for organic goods.Three years ago, approximately half of all shoppers were knowingly buying organic ...
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Choosing certification
The organic market is expanding rapidly. Shoppers are voting with their trolleys and even a brief visit to a supermarket is likely to provide more than enough evidence of burgeoning consumer demand for organic goods.Three years ago, approximately half of all shoppers were knowingly buying organic ...
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Commodities tracker
"This year will be the year when demand for healthier eating options will push demand for nuts, dried fruit and seeds to all time high levels," said RM Curtis’ trading director Mark Setterfield in its new report - Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit, Dec 2006-Jan 2007.He explained: "Although increased demand ...
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Commodities tracker
"This year will be the year when demand for healthier eating options will push demand for nuts, dried fruit and seeds to all time high levels," said RM Curtis’ trading director Mark Setterfield in its new report - Edible Nuts & Dried Fruit, Dec 2006-Jan 2007.He explained: "Although increased demand ...
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CSM to off-load French factory
Netherlands-based food company CSM, which owns BakeMark UK, is to sell off part of its French subsidiary, Delices de la Tour, to French baker Panavi for approximately E15m.CSM will sell the Delices de la Tour factory in Le Mans, which specialises in ’beignets’ and frozen pastries. All 140 factory employees ...
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CSM to off-load French factory
Netherlands-based food company CSM, which owns BakeMark UK, is to sell off part of its French subsidiary, Delices de la Tour, to French baker Panavi for approximately E15m.CSM will sell the Delices de la Tour factory in Le Mans, which specialises in ’beignets’ and frozen pastries. All 140 factory employees ...
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Many hands make light naan dough
Ethnic bread producer Honeytop Speciality Foods produces over two million naan breads each day at its factory in Dunstable.With such a heavy work-load you might expect machines to be shouldering the burden, but the company still uses skilled hand-stretchers to maintain the light, fluffy texture of its products. The hand-stretchers ...
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Many hands make light naan dough
Ethnic bread producer Honeytop Speciality Foods produces over two million naan breads each day at its factory in Dunstable.With such a heavy work-load you might expect machines to be shouldering the burden, but the company still uses skilled hand-stretchers to maintain the light, fluffy texture of its products. The hand-stretchers ...
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Face to face...
Q How did you come into the baking industry?A My father was with Kelly’s Bakery in Kilcock as a salesman. When I was a child, I used to go down to the bakery with him and it was a love affair. I started at O’Rourke’s bakery (Mother’s Pride) in the ...
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Face to face...
Q How did you come into the baking industry?A My father was with Kelly’s Bakery in Kilcock as a salesman. When I was a child, I used to go down to the bakery with him and it was a love affair. I started at O’Rourke’s bakery (Mother’s Pride) in the ...
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Fermex International
For producing organic rustic bread, Fermex International (Worcester, Worcestershire) offers Crème de Levain, a patented live, liquid sourdough, with standardised, high levels of acidifying bacteria and aromatic yeasts in packs of five litres and 1,000-litre tanks.