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Farmhouse Fare joins soup brand
Puddings supplier Farmhouse Fare said "nothing will change" after it was bought last week by Daniels Chilled Foods, the company behind the New Covent Garden Food Company brand.Founder Helen Colley will remain MD of the company, which was named Bakery Supplier of the Year in British Baker’s 2005 Baking ...
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UK bread map shock
A new bread map from Tesco of consumers’ buying habits around the UK explodes some myths about regional tastes.Although white bread is more popular further north and brown bread is more widely bought in the south, Tesco store data reveals that the area with the highest demand for ’upmarket’ bread ...
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Briefs
n Bakery company Finsbury Food Group is assessing damage after an overnight fire at its United Central Bakeries site near Edinburgh. It said recovery plans were being implemented and alternative production facilities sourced where necessary.n Supplier Eurobake is to relocate to the nearby premises of craft bakery Greenhalgh’s following a ...
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Pecan Deluxe Candy
Pecan Deluxe Candy (Leeds, West Yorkshire) is set to launch a range of new nut and seed coatings. The move coincides with further investment at its Yorkshire factory, which includes investment in ’traditional style’ cooling tables for nut products, such as brittles.Pecan’s new coatings, include basil & garlic pine nuts, ...
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Christmas rush
Bakery managers all over the country are standing by for their busiest time of year, swatting up on production schedules, supplies and staffing rotas. The more sophisticated will already have analysed electronic point of sales data from last Christmas, probably as early as January, to help them plan. Others will ...
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Co-op research into Leeds loaf
Leeds Co-op could be going back to its roots by launching an own-label local bread.The society has started a feasibility study into working with one or two Leeds-based bakers to bake the bread, which would only be sold in its outlets in the area.One of the current members suggested a ...
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Slippery customer
It seems like a simple process. Grease a baking tin with release agent and your product will slide easily from it.But release agents can also affect things like the finish and shape of baked goods, and different products require specific agents, explains Alfred Fowler, sales director of Croda Food Services."If ...
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Doing things differently
Einstein defined madness as doing the same thing again and again while continuing to expect a different result.This got me thinking about my own business. When trade is poor perhaps we should think that the products we are providing are not what the public want or need. Maybe the service ...
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Time to tackle trans fats
There was a time when all we had to remember when it came to fats was that saturated ’animal’ fats were the bad guys because they clogged our arteries and increased the risk of heart disease, while unsaturated fats, ’vegetable oils’, were the good guys. But now it seems there’s ...
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NA takes a look at the future
The annual National Association of Master Bakers (NA) business seminar on 29 October was attended by around 70 people.The seminar was held at the Landmark Hotel in London. The speakers were Mike Holling of Birds of Derby on seasonal opportunities and Paul Morrow MD of British Bakels on the future ...
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Health watch
If you were to stand up in a biology seminar and announce that honey activates sleep, you would risk being laughed at.If you then further stated that not only does honey activate sleep but also refuels the liver prior to bed, promoting fat burning during sleep, you would be dismissed ...
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Lir
Irish chocolate manufacturer Lir (Lavan, Co Meath) has joined forces with Thomas Lowndes & Co to launch a fresh, new liqueur truffle pack. Lir’s Truffle Shots are a mix of plain and milk chocolate truffles containing five contemporary alcohol brands from Thomas Lowndes’ portfolio that are different to traditional liqueur ...
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Macphie
Macphie (Stonehaven, Kincardineshire) has launched three additions to its range of release agents: Trennol Emulsion 3, Trennol CD100 and Trennol TF380.Trennol Emulsion 3 is a water-in-oil emulsion for the release of baked goods and confectionery lines. It can be applied by electric spray gun and air-mix machines. It is available ...
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Spelt it out...
Laura Thorp, MD and owner of Laura’s Cookies in Kilcoole, Co Wicklow, is a firm believer in the ’healthy’ properties of spelt flour, which she uses to create all her bakery goods.Launched at the end of 2004, the company makes biscuits, cookies, shortbread and brownies, all baked with spelt. ...
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People
marketing managerSpecialist sales, development and marketing company for the food sector, WCB Marketing, has appointed Richard Ford as marketing manager. Ford joins from Robinson Young, where he headed up the company’s product development for its household division. He will be responsible for NPD and sales and marketing strategies, working alongside ...
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Subway takes pole position
Here’s a modern-day first: Tesco, unassailable grocery giant and king of all it surveys, has been toppled from top of the pile in a sector where, until recently, it was market leader.Across 20 weeks this summer, according to TNS figures, retailer Subway has overtaken the nation’s biggest supermarket to ...
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Rich Products
Rich Products (Kidderminster, Worcestershire) has expanded its thaw-and-serve range to accommodate growing demand for lines including shortbreads, scones, muffins and cupcakes.This follows the success of its cookies, which can be stored frozen for nine months and, once thawed, have an extended shelf life of five days. Simon Richardson, sales and ...
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Slattery scoops UK Richemont Trophy
Manchester-based Slattery Patissier & Chocolatier won this year’s UK Richemont Trophy at the Club’s third annual competition last week.The UK Richemont Club received a record 210 entries in the 15 classes of the competition, which was held at Martins Bakers & Sandwich Makers’ bakery in Manchester.Bakers from around the UK ...
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Synergy
International savoury ingredients and flavourings expert Synergy (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) has developed an innovative range of authentic curry pastes for ready meals, soups, sauces, flavoured breads and mayonnaises and ethnic snacks.The pastes provide a solution for reproducing authentic curry tastes, eliminating the need for multiple spices and ingredients, says the ...