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Irish baker sells to food processing firm
Leading Irish artisan bakery My Own bakery in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, has been sold by Siobhan Walsh, the woman who started the business five years ago, writes Hugh Oram.Walsh sold the business for an undisclosed sum to a Dublin-based food processing company, CWK Food Processing of Baldoyle, Dublin. The owner ...
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NewsBakers make the most of World Cup novelties
English craft bakers have reported themed lines proved popular during the recent England World Cup tournament, although trade was down during England matches. Gary Reeve, MD of Reeve the Baker, based in Salisbury, said his nine shops offered World Cup novelties, including biscuits with an iced football strip, George Cross ...
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NewsThinking outside the box on premixes
“Bakers who do not use confectionery premixes are missing a trick, and if they think premixes are just an alternative to scratch baking, then they should think again.” says Gary Thorns, ingredients technical sales manager, at bakery ingredient specialist Renshaw. He adds: “There is no doubt that by following ...
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Bread Maker takes disability initiative
Work is under way to build a bakery and coffee shop in Aberdeen that will offer adults with learning disabilities the opportunity to train in hospitality and baking.The Bread Maker, which opens in September, will offer three-year training and work placements to 25 people with learning difficulties, who will work ...
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NewsIn Brief
PRIVATE equity firm Doughty Hanson is selling its remaining 26.6% stake in RHM, following its flotation of the food group last July. Lantmannen Unibake, one of Europe’s largest bakery groups, based in Scandinavia, is acquiring Belpan, a bakery producer, based in Belgium. Bakehouse will continue to represent both businesses in ...
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Coombs buckles under the weight of legislation
Leicester-based Coombs Quality Bakery has blamed a high street downturn and the burden of legislation after calling in the administrators on July 3. The third-generation company closed five of its 17 shops immediately after calling in the administrators, but hopes to sell the remaining outlets and the central bakery as ...
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NewsInter Link streamlines to create efficient business
Cake giant Inter Link says it plans to create four major production hubs in the UK and one in Poland, as it modernises its business. In a few years, Inter Link, which currently has 10 UK bakery businesses and one in Poland, hopes to have consolidated activities to five large ...
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NewsWasp nest cakes
The name is fantastic, but the original recipe is rather vague about the method and shape of these buns. It comes from Cakes and Confectionery à la Mode by Mrs Harriet De Salis, 1889.It is worth experimenting with the filling; walnuts and marmalade work well.Steve Mansbridge of Mansbridge Bakers used ...
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Cereal Growth
The total area sown to cereals in Great Britain over the last season shows a slight increase says the 2006 HGCA Planting Survey, the first full estimate of plantings for the 2006 harvest.The results indicate that wheat and oats plantings are slightly up on last year, although barley and oilseed ...
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SAINSBURY’S YOUNG GUNS
Not every teenager walks away from school with qualifications. For some, it is simply not the right environment for them to learn. As a consequence, many employers are likely to reject their applications for jobs because they do not have the minimum entry requirements – usually GCSEs in English and ...
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SAINSBURY’S YOUNG GUNS
Not every teenager walks away from school with qualifications. For some, it is simply not the right environment for them to learn. As a consequence, many employers are likely to reject their applications for jobs because they do not have the minimum entry requirements – usually GCSEs in English and ...
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Kluman works on recipes
Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Herts) offers a large range of cake and bread mixes suitable for smaller craft bakeries and larger volume production methods. “The great thing about our premixes is that they can also be used as a base to which extra ingredients can be added for more ...
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NewsViewpoint
Inter Link Foods and Finsbury Food Group, both reveal they are on missions to improve efficiency in their business this week. The two companies are profitable, but say trading conditions are “challenging” in the cake market. They say they want to control costs – read “reduce prices”. Inter Link may ...
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NewsWarburtons goes national for first time in 130 years
Warburtons has achieved national distribution for the first time in its 130-year history.Jonathan Warburton, chairman of Britain’s biggest independent plant bakery, told British Baker: “We are going national with Tesco at the end of this month, which is marvellous. In addition, we have gained huge distribution with Somerfield.” He said ...
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Apuro shakes up frappé market
Apuro (Solihull, West Midlands) is introducing a technologically advanced double milk shaker and frappé machine, which it says is aimed at satisfying demand for increasingly sophisticated drinks in today’s café society.The Sirio 2VV, suitable for preparing coffees, cocktails, sorbets and frothy frappés, has a three-whisky mixing system. Each independently operated ...
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NewsLAKE BAKE
Located at the heart of the Lake District, family craft baker and confectioner Bryson’s prides itself on preserving tea-time traditions, serving regular customers and tourists to the popular region. Founded in 1947 by John Bryson as a small bakery in Keswick, the company is now run by family descendants John ...
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NewsUnion looks at ethnic diversity with year-long bakery survey
The Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has launched a survey with British Bakeries and Northern Foods of workers’ ethnicity and languages. The aim of the study is to produce guidance for migrant workers and for firms keen to boost health and safety and efficiency.Half of the funding of ...
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NewsBako points the way to customer loyalty
distributor Bako North Western is to launch a customer loyalty scheme claimed to be worth an average £40 a month to customers. The Plus Reward Points scheme will cover special offers by Bako North Western’s suppliers, which will pay for the scheme. All the firm’s 2,500 customers will be entered ...
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NewsOn the ball
The format for this year’s inaugural mid-summer ball in aid of the Bakers Benevolent Society was that of an old traditional English ball with a modern twist. The evening was a success and put the event firmly back on the baking industry’s social calendar.The aim of the ball, which was ...
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NewsFull of beans
In a classic moment in satirical cartoon The Simpsons some years ago, Bart walks into a typical shopping mall, walking past a couple of Starbucks coffee houses and into a shop:Sales clerk: “Can I help you?” Bart: “I’d like to get my ears pierced.”Sales clerk: “Better make it quick, ...