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Ulma Packaging
Ulma Packaging offers a range of flowrapping packaging equipment. For small to medium-sized bakery operations the recently updated Florida E flowrapper is suitable for a wide range of bakery applications. Dependent on product, it can operate at up to 150 packs per minute.Another Ulma machine, the Atlanta, has been ...
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Premier’s RHM plans
Innovation and investment were promised by Premier Foods after it took over RHM, which comprises milling, bread and cakes businesses, for £1.2bn this week.Premier’s chief executive Robert Schofield told British Baker: "This acquisition transforms our scale and we believe it will enable us to be a better partner with our ...
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Oliver Adams’ waste scheme
Northampton-based baker Oliver Adams is sending its food waste to be turned into energy, in addition to its existing recycling programme.Instead of paying £40 per tonne to send its food waste to landfill, waste management company F&R Cawley is now picking it up and sending it for mixing with ...
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Maple Leaf moves to add value in UK
Maple Leaf Bakery UK has bought the French Croissant Company (FCC) and Avance (UK) as it expands its operations.The deal, which completed on Monday, gives it a total of six sites in the UK and will allow it to develop its UK bakery business, deputy MD Guy Hall told British ...
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Hampshires buys rival Coombs out of administration
Leicestershire-based Hampshires has bought Coombs Bakeries, its biggest local competitor, out of administration.The acquisition means the 106-year old Hampshires chain has increased its estate by 14 shops to a total of 31.Hampshires’ MD Keith Baxter said: "It would have been a terrible blow to see this Leicestershire icon fall by ...
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Reporting in, Alison Ward, communications director, BCCCA
It’s difficult to open the papers without reading another story about the growing obesity problem in the UK. The good news is that the latest data from TNS suggests people are looking to improve their diets, with more people choosing foods for health reasons.Many manufacturers have already responded by ...
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Ambit International
Ambit International (Enfield, Middlesex), the UK sales office for Werner & Pfleiderer, part of the German based Horstmann Group, is introducing the Crustica bread make-up line. The new line is suitable for the production of Mediterranean-style breads that can include many additional ingredients, such as onion, tomato, cheese and nuts. ...
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Kluman & Balter
Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire) has launched a range of speciality bread mixes, which include dark rye, light rye, sunflower and cereal grain breads, as well as continental styles such as a Pia Do mix for tomato bread and a ciabatta mix. The Kaybee range uses bread dressings from ...
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NewsAround the world recipes
See our recipe supplement, which came free with British Baker on 1 Dec, for a selection of great commercially scaled-up recipes from around the world. We featured some top names from TV chef Paul Rankin (pictured) to bakery writer Richard Bertinet and chocolatier Trevor Backhouse. From Irish soda bread to French pain de campagne, Indonesian salmon baguette to Italian slipper pizza, the recipes will give you the new ideas you need to tempt your customers.
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Auto-Bake
Responding to a rise in demand for the authentic forms and flavours of artisan-style breads, Auto-Bake (Birmingham, West Midlands) has fused modern baking technology with the traditional stone hearth. The latest addition to Auto-Bake’s range of flexible bread baking solutions, the new stone hearth Serpentine, is used for the authentic ...
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Bakehouse
Following the launch of its Rusticata bread, Bakehouse (Bagshot, Surrey) has expanded the range with a selection pack of three flavoured bake-off dinner rolls.The rolls were created using the Rusticata dough, which is made with semolina flour, to give a golden colour, and virgin olive oil for extra flavour. The ...
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Baker Perkins
Tweedy mixers from BAKER PERKINS (Paston Parkway, Peterborough) have upgraded their control systems, which are all based on industry-standard off-the-shelf components, but are tailored to suit individual requirements. Systems can be upgraded with four key features: a reporting system that records process conditions and ingredients used in every mix; a ...
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Bakery Services woe
Bakery Services has revealed "disappointing" results, with its six-month statement to 30 September 2006 showing pre-tax losses of over £80,000.Bakery Services operates the in-store bakeries business Inbake at Co-op shops as well as Don Millers’ franchise and company-managed cafés.Turnover was up from £1.588m (2005) to £1.598m (2006). But pre-tax losses ...
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Battle lines are drawn
This month, Tesco issued a regional bread map of Britain, charting the local tastes across the country (British Baker, 3 November, pg 4). Meanwhile, Warburtons has issued its own taste map, charting how most people’s bread tastes are increasingly favouring Hovis and Warburtons. Based on sales figures of plant ...
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Becoming a candy man
Over 2000 years on from when the Romans established a fort on the site of Cirencester, Tony Phillips opened up a chocolate shop.Chocolate and Candy was opened just four months ago and sits in the centre of this historic and picturesque town, known as the ’capital of The Cotswolds’.At the ...
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Fight between two Fine Lady staff ends in fatal stabbing
A man has been stabbed to death after two employees got into a fight in the car park of Fine Lady Bakeries in Banbury.Police were called to the bakery at 2.34am on Monday morning following reports of a serious injury.The 23-year-old victim, Imran Shah, was pronounced dead on arrival at ...
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Into the drink - beverages round-up
Health is a key trend in the drinks category judging by some of the latest new product developments.The Feel Good Drinks Company (London), for example, is set to venture into the pure juice category, with the launch of 100% Squeezed Juices.Each Feel Good Squeezed Juice contains at least three different ...
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Low-GI health boost
Ground-breaking research has made a link between the consumption of low-glycaemic index (GI) bread and the prevention of Type 2 diabetes. The research also shows that low-GI bread contributes to a reduced risk of heart disease.The year-long study, entitled The Effect of Low-GI Bread on Glucose Response, was carried out ...