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Greggs blames mild and wet weather for poor trading
Greggs blamed unseasonably mild and wet weather for particularly disappointing trading in the four weeks to 7 October.The bakery group announced like-for-like sales in the second half of the year (19 weeks to 28 October) up 0.2% and it added that the Christmas period would be critical to its success ...
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Naan bread likely cause of UCB fire
A fire that destroyed part of United Central Bakeries’ (UCB) West Lothian factory last week is believed to have started in a naan oven.Police forensic teams are still investigating the blaze, which broke out at the Whitehill Industrial Estate during the night-shift. Eye-witnesses said that a clump of bread caught ...
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Briefs
n Sales of New York Bagel Company-branded bagels have increased 30% in the last few weeks following a TV advertising campaign. Owner, Maple Leaf Bakery UK, said sales were flying since the adverts first aired on 6 October.n International food and drink exhibition IFE 07 will showcase 45 confectionery and ...
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British Sugar
British Sugar has launched TopWrap icing sugar, part of the Celebration range, designed for use on products such as iced buns, which are often wrapped in film before sale."The icing sets harder than usual, doesn’t stick to the film and it doesn’t come off the bun," said British Sugar’s commercial ...
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Burger King feels heat in UK
Bakeries and sandwich shops are enticing fast food fans away from Burger King in the UK.The Miami-based company’s recent financial results statement highlighted poor performance in the UK. It blamed this on "perceptions about obesity and food-borne illness; and increased competition from sandwich shops, bakeries and other new restaurants".Burger King’s ...
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Burton’s Foods
Burton’s Foods (Blackpool, Lancashire), makers of Cadbury’s biscuits under licence, has launched a Cadbury "Signature" collection, comprising 200g packs of Bournville Shortcake Rounds, Milk Chocolate shortbread and Milk Chocolate Orange cookies (RSP £1.99).Jaspal Chada, marketing director of Burton’s Foods commented: "Last year, we had a fantastic response from consumers and ...
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California Raisins
California Raisins (Barnes, London) is launching an Organic Food Bar range. The bars are non-dairy kosher and three are vegan-certified. All are vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, peanut-free, soy-free and GMO-free, with no preservatives, additives, salt, coatings or refined sugar. The RRP is £1.99.The 100% organic range includes Protein, Vegan, Omega-3 Flax, ...
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Mrs Frazer’s ginger and caraway sponge
This fatless sponge comes from The Practice of Cookery, Pastry and Confectionery and was first published in Edinburgh in 1791.The book was popular and several editions were printed. Mrs Frazer suggests using lemon or orange zest.Makes 10 18cm/7" cakes20 eggs1.1kg/2½lb sugar25g/1oz of ground ginger75g/3oz of caraway seeds1.4 kg/3lb plain flourCaster ...
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Raising a pie for charity
This year sees the inaugural World Scotch Pie Week, organised by The Scotch Pie Club from Saturday 25 November to Saturday 2 December and sponsored by ADM Milling.Under the slogan ’Say aye tae a pie’, the event, which has echoes of the annual Doughnut Week, aims to raise money for ...
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Elisabeth the Chef
Elisabeth the Chef reports significant growth in packaged cakes over the last year, with sales growth topping the 20% mark. The company states that almost all that growth stems from traditional product areas - choux buns, meringue-based products, doughnuts, éclairs, custards and sponges.The bulk of the company’s bakery work is ...
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Commodities tracker
Information from 64,000 wheat samples and 22,000 barley samples has been received and analysed by HGCA for its final Cereals Quality Survey.It shows the UK has harvested another good quality wheat crop. Compared to recent years, average Hagberg and protein content is higher with specific weight slightly down and moisture ...
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Cuisine de France
Cuisine de France (Stone, Staffordshire) says it has something for everyone this Christmas, from traditional festive treats to indulgent winter goodies.The Shortcrust Pastry Mince Pie is a fully-baked, thaw and serve pastry case, filled with mincemeat, for single purchases.The Festive Mince Pie with a Bag is designed for family purchases. ...
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Dawn Foods
Dawn Foods’ Adore brand offers four lines of individually wrapped premium muffins, brownies, indulgent cakes and American cookies, available in a variety of flavours.The brand has been developed to offer a premium packaged product to suit the foodservice industry and comes in a range of flavours, including blueberry and redcurrant ...
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Northen Foods signs skills deal
Northern Foods has signed a multi-union National Learning Agreement.It has teamed up with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, the Transport & General Workers Union and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers to give employees access to a wide range of courses from numeracy and literacy ...
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Flavour to taste
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients’ Centre of Excellence in Roosendaal, Holland, claims to be able to create any flavour, bringing 150 years of experience to the table. Well-trained panel members, selected for their sense of taste and smell, are crucial to the flavours business. The sensory labs, in which they ...
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RTS Flexible Systems
RTS Flexible Systems (Irlam, Manchester) a provider of integrated robotic and automation systems for the food industry, has developed a solution for picking and packing food products into variety packs.The system can also be adapted to cope with changes in pack configuration due to the introduction of new flavours or ...
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Kitchen Range Foods
Kitchen Range Foods (Peterborough) is extending its range of Cadbury chocolate donuts with the launch of an individually wrapped Cadbury Milk Chocolate donut - a single ring donut covered in smooth Cadbury milk chocolate and sprinkled with chunky chocolate pieces.The firm hopes the donut will encourage impulse buys. "It will ...
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Herma
The new compact Herma 400 Slim Line label applicator allows new and existing rotary machines to be easily converted to run self-adhesive labels.The new 400 label applicator has been developed as a result of market influences and manufactured by HERMA (Haverhill, Suffolk), a specialist in self-adhesive technology.Such labels are being ...
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Ingredients watch
"Provenance and traceability are really important at the moment. Consumers are becoming more interested in the story behind their food and where it actually comes from.As a result, we are seeing increasing references to the origins of key ingredients on food packaging or menus.This is particularly noticeable where premium ...
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Macphie
Macphie is helping bakers during the festive season with a range of convenient, ready-to-use desserts and sweet sauces. The desserts include Macphie Crème Caramel, Macphie Panna Cotta and Macphie Crème Brûlée. The desserts are tolerant to alcohol making them suitable for Christmas products.Macphie’s sweet sauce line includes Brandy, the ...