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Italian Beverage Co.
The Italian Beverage Company (IBC), based in Borehamwood, Herts, has come up with a new way of making hot chocolate, based on its DROPissimo chocolate drop brand.The specially formulated chocoalte drop, made from Belgian chocolate, is suitable for blending into hot milk to produce a chocolate drink.The company says the ...
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Marco Beverage Systems brings out Filtro range
Beverage-making equipment supplier Marco Beverage Systems (London) is launching a range of small-batch filter coffee brewers called Filtro.Two models are included in the range: the pour-over jug model and a thermal airpot version. Each comes in manual fill or plumbed versions.Filtro has a visual and audible indicator of when the ...
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Marshfield makes a move for the big time
Marshfield BAKERY’S production of cakes and snack bars for the Christmas rush should begin by early September in new premises, which are currently being built. The company is investing about £180,000 of its own money to take on larger orders, as well as targeting further orders in the foodservice market ...
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Summer boom for iced drinks
“Blended iced drinks can account for as much as 40% of a chain café bar’s sales in the hot summer months,” says Gary McGann, general manager of Espresso Warehouse (Glasgow, Scotland). There are many products on the market that can create speciality blended fruit and coffee drinks that take the ...
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In Brief
A WARBURTONS bakery lorry caught fire while it was parked in Bolton. An electrical fault in the driver’s cab sparked the blaze, which spread to the bread in the trailer. Nobody was hurt in the incident.Teenagers broke into the Daily Bake factory in East Grinstead, breaking machinery and stealing up ...
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NewsBrighten up your cappucino
Food Design (Harrogate, North Yorks) has recently launched brightly-coloured sprinkles to introduce colour, texture and flavour to cappuccino.“Consumers who drink on the hoof are no less discerning than the café customer and they all now demand more than the standard topping,” says the company. “This product, which introduces the ...
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NewsNew chilled cabinet
The ISA Dialog multi-deck chilled cabinet is a new collection featuring the latest refrigeration technology and energy efficiency characteristics. The latest addition to the ISA One range includes multi-decks, serve-overs, impulse and island display cases which fit convenience stores, independent retailers, butchers, supermarkets and forecourts.Dialog is an integral plug-in ...
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NewsMini cake maker gears up for rapid growth
The end of August should see new production capacity coming on stream at miniature cake producer Greetings for Eating, as part of a £500,000 expansion funded partly by new investors.The firm is expanding output from 3m cakes a year in response to what the chairman Stephen Smith said was a ...
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Coburg modernises
Coburg Coffee Company is relaunching two of its major brands this year, Langdons of London and Giovanni Rizzi. The company has redesigned the brands to give them a more modern look.The Langdons of London range of traditional roast and ground coffees is available in a variety of whole bean and ...
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Coffee in an instant
Nescafé.go is a quick and convenient way to serve branded hot beverages, says the firm. The range includes all-in-one varieties of cappuccino, black coffee, white coffee, white decaff coffee, hot chocolate and Tetley tea.Bakers can make up to 60% profit on every cup of Nescafé.go sold, which means a business ...
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Colibri offers a smaller service
Nestlé Foodservices (Croydon) is introducing the Nescafé Accolade Platinum Colibri, a table-top vending unit that dispenses latte, cappuccino, hot chocolate and other premium speciality drinks.The company claims the machine will help caterers meet consumer demand for hot beverages. The Colibri is a smaller version of the Nescafé Accolade vending machine ...
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Start-up crumpet maker targets premium niche
Four baking professionals previously employed by Rathbones Bakery and Harvestime have begun making ‘premium’ crumpets at a factory in Carlisle, Cumbria. Initial production by Lakeland Bake is being frozen off-site for distribution mainly to expatriates in places such as Cyprus, Spain and Malta, said one of the company’s founders, Nigel ...
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Failed Furniss to be snapped up ‘within days’
Biscuit company Furniss of Cornwall could have a new owner within days, predicted the administrator Ian Walker, who last month took charge of the business when it went into administration.Walker, of Begbies Traynor, said that Furniss “just ran out of cash”, but added: “I’m fairly confident that it is going ...
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NewsFocused future for HGCA, but detail unclear
THE planned restructuring of the five agricultural and horticultural levy boards, including the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), promises a more focused, efficient and cross-sector approach to industry issues, said Jonathan Cowens, HGCA chief executive.Yet details of the changes just announced by the government, after a review by former PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
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NewsJuice Doctor gets Olympic support
Juice Doctor is a new, natural fruit drink backed by Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave designed to combat dehydration, which it says affects two out of three people.The company has worked with nutritionists to develop a formulation which improves water, vitamin and mineral uptake by the body. The drinks are ...
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A Tall order from Drury
The Drury Tea & Coffee Company (London) unveiled its latest range of espresso coffees using the Rancilio Classe 8 Tall machine, imported by associate firm The Coffee Machine Company at the inaugural Caffé Culture exhibition in May.Designed with coffee shop and takeaway markets in mind, the Classe 8 Tall machine ...
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FIZZY POP GOES FLAT
It was panic stations in March when the Food Standards Agency (FSA) pressed the alarm over soft drinks on sale in Britain that contained the cancer-causing chemical benzene. Although only a handful of drinks were affec-ted, the ensuing negative publicity heaped more woes on the soft drinks industry, which has ...
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NewsThorncroft launches Healthy Thirst
“There is a gap in the market for a radical alternative to ordinary soft drinks,” says Guy Woodall, founder and chairman of Thorncroft Drinks (Surrey). “Soft drinks are perceived as unhealthy and there is good reason for this. They may have as much as 15% sugar an/or be full of ...
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Hovis leads the way on RHM’s road to recovery
The RHM group trumpeted “a significantly improved trading performance” in the second half of the year to 29 April. The full year pre-tax profit fell to £7.4m from £63.7m the year before.Although group sales grew 2.1% last year to £1.6bn, growth picked up in the second half and reached 3.7%, ...
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Search for raisin innovation
You have just over a week left to enter the California Raisin Administrative Committee’s (CRAC) competition to find innovative uses of its raisins. The best innovation will win an all-expenses paid study trip for four people to California, plus an unspecified amount of support for advertising and public relations for ...