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Men take the larger slice
Not surprisingly, males are the key consumer group when it comes to eating pies, according to data gathered by TNS Worldpanel on behalf of savoury pastry manufacturer Waldens.In the out-of-home market, males account for almost double the market share of their female contemporaries. The largest male share is in the ...
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McDougalls
McDougalls (part of RHM Foodservice, Reading) has recently reduced the fat content in its High Yield Pastry and Short Crust Pastry Mixes by 22%. The mixes are suitable for desserts such as apple pies, custard tarts and Bakewell tarts. The McDougalls Choux Pastry Mix makes crisp and light pastry, ...
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Northern profits slump
Northern Foods rejected City suggestions that it would fail to get the £200m it was seeking for the pastry, cakes, speciality bread and flour milling businesses.Remaining disposals were "progressing in line with plans to achieve £200m total proceeds" said Northern, as it unveiled a 38% fall in pre-tax profit on ...
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Pasty popularity
Where do you go if you want the true taste of the south-west, to find a proper Cornish pasty made to a traditional recipe, with locally sourced ingredients, a rich handmade pastry and produced locally? Well, London obviously.With franchise pasty outlets popping up left, right and centre over the last ...
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People power
Belfast-based Neill’s Flour has become the first mill in Northern Ireland to receive the Investor in People Standard, joining over 38,000 organisations in the UK that have committed to setting a level of good practice for improving business performance through their people.Neill’s Flour employs 40 staff at its College Place ...
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Price pressures
While the quality of the UK wheat harvest in 2006 has been generally good, events elsewhere in the world have led to a steep increase in wheat prices, especially during September and early October. The upshot is that UK bread wheat prices now stand some 40% higher than a year ...
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Baking in a war zone
In 2001, following September 11, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members paved the way for the US-led bombing campaign launched in Afghanistan, marking the beginning of the "war on terror".This was the context into which Kevin Barke, owner of Barke Craft Bakery in ...
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Dorothy Biscuits
These tasty orange biscuits come from a collection of 215 recipes compiled by a professional baker, Fredrick Vine, in his book Biscuits for Bakers: Easy to Make and Profitable to Sell, which was published in 1896. He recommended selling these biscuits at 1 shilling a pound. In today’s terms that’s ...
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CHris PARR TRIBUTE
Warburtons’ Chris Parr died suddenly on Monday, 18 September.Aged 57, he was technical director at Warburtons, and was respected throughout the baking and milling industries.He died after developing an infection following surgery. He had been suffering from an illness over the past few months, but was expected to return to ...
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Heat on pies
The hot, simmering months of June and July, coupled with rising rents and business rates, have taken their toll on pie-makers in the East Midlands. For some, it was good news and for others, bad.One business - The Pie Company, based in Leicester city centre - was forced to close, ...
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Tate & Lyle sales rise 9%
Supplier Tate & Lyle has posted strong results, thanks to its profitable value-added food and industrial ingredients sectors.Interim results for the six months ended 30 September saw sales at the company rise 9%, to £2,039 m (from £1,868 m), due to a strong first half in Food & Industrial Ingredients, ...
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ABF revenue lower
Associated British Foods said its Allied Bakeries division had seen "a very disappointing year", as it posted preliminary results for the year ended 16 September this week.There were revenue declines in Kingsmill and own label, and profitability declined sharply. The new management team has developed plans for the reinvigoration of ...
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Flour: price up again
The price of flour is set to rise by another £25 a tonne before Christmas, as increased costs continue to hit the milling sector.The major millers Rank Hovis and ADM Milling are preparing to announce a second round of price increases, just four months after they last put their prices ...
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Asda shapes its local offer
Bakery buyers may be sobbing in the aisles - and one or two tertiary bakery suppliers, no doubt - as the one-size-fits-all approach to filling the supermarket bakery concessions across the land is ditched, with the focus shifted onto locally sourced products, premium, indulgent products and organics.Asda is simplifying its ...
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Brown made COO of Bakehouse
Continental pastries and speciality bread producer Bakehouse restructured last month, with former sales director Tony Brown promoted to chief operating officer.Brown will oversee the company’s day-to-day running and implementation of strategy. Meanwhile, Peter Drew has been appointed as innovations director, a post which was created to develop Bakehouse’s position ...
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I chose to be a baker
I ’m a mature student in my second year at Castle College in Sheffield, currently sitting an NVQ Level Two Bakery, Patisserie and Cake Decorating, having gained Level One last year.The course couldn’t be further from anything I’ve done in the past and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I worked for ...
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Reporting in - Gordon Polson, director,Federation of Bakers
It has been a busy 12 months since the industry announced its plans to reduce salt in bread and we are already making significant strides in meeting our targets.The Federation has for many years taken a positive and proactive approach to salt reduction. Salt levels in bread have been reduced ...
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Warburtons to open new bakery in south
Baker Warburtons has revealed it will open another bakery in the south in the next two years, as nationwide expansion continues.Category marketing controller Sarah Miskell told British Baker it will first open a second bread line at its Enfield bakery in early 2007 to support further expansion in the south.Miskell ...
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Three Cooks’ management make rescue bid
Management of retail bakery Three Cooks said they remain locked in rescue talks with administators after the chain collapsed last week.Administrators Tenon Recovery closed 37 loss-making sites after being called in on November 1, with around 250 job losses.The Solihull-based chain, which had 158 shops, said it appointed administrators because ...