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NewsObituary
The widely known Sadie Chandley, who founded the Manchester-based oven manufacturer Tom Chandley with her husband Tom, has died aged 97.She took an active interest in the business until very recently and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1994. Sadie and Tom set up the business in April 1944 with a ...
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NewsThirst Service
The biggest sales gains in soft drinks last year came from those perceived to be healthier, such as water, juices and dairy drinks, but cola is still the largest sub-category. Jason Roots, sales manager at Bako London, says Coca-Cola and Diet Coke continue to be the best-sellers, but other drinks ...
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It was a marvellous summer’s day. The sun shone, the Champagne flowed, London landmarks such as the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral and the portals of the National Gallery shimmered in the bright light. A group of partygoers gathered on the roof of the Trafalgar Square Hilton to celebrate Warburtons’ ...
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ISA takes Action on display
New from ISA (UK) are the ISA Action and ISA Music impulse/island cabinets for frozen and chilled products. These are the latest additions to the ISA One range. The new Action is designed for the hot-spot display of frozen food and ice creams. Replacing the ISA ET 70 and ...
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Puratos adds natural vanilla to Belcolade
Belcolade, the real Belgian chocolate supplied by Puratos, now includes natural vanilla in all of its recipes. Comprising over 200 different compounds, natural vanilla delivers a sweet, fresh flavour that carries to the finished product,” says Matt Crumpton, marketing director of Puratos UK. “Being natural it offers a premium image ...
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Improvement in air delivery
Eurobake (Bolton, Lancs) has devised a new design of retarder-prover, incorporating an innovative evaporator, which it claims gives greater energy and production efficiency and provides bakers with improved dough conservation control and proving.A combined defrosting and heating element on the new evaporator offers more stable and sustainable temperatures, says the ...
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Romanian baker seeks UK ally
An Anglo-Romanian company plans to lead a full-scale assault on the Eastern European country’s bakery market. Bucharest-based Snack Attack will open a 50,000sq ft state-of-the-art sandwich factory there by the end of 2007, which is set to increase production from 10,000 to 100,000 sandwiches a day in the next three ...
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CPRE study backs case for small shops
A new study confirms that local shops flourish once superstore plans are turned down.The Real Choice report, by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Plunkett Foundation, found the number of local and regional food suppliers in and around Saxmundham, East Suffolk, had increased from 300 to 370 ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Flicking through some back issues of British Baker recently, I came across a point made by the editor Sylvia Macdonald. She argued in February that the Government pays little heed to comments made by trade associations with memberships of less than three thousand.This made me think – where does that ...
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Burger bun bakers faced with redundancy
Workers at the Hemel Hempstead plant of East Balt Guenther Bakeries are facing redundancy, six months after the Buncefield blast badly damaged the premises and made it inoperable.The factory had been making burger buns for McDonald’s for over 20 years. It was formerly known as Golden West and owned by ...
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NewsGrieves challenges bakers to safeguard their future
Former bakery tutor and past chairman of the British Society of Baking Jean Grieves has called on the industry to re-evaluate its thinking on training, with a view to retaining traditional skills and bringing another generation of bakers to the fore.Speaking at the Bakers Benevolent Society ball at the Mandarin ...
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NewsStore’s best bakery named
Improved availability, product quality and good customer service have all led to a huge sales increase at Sainsbury’s in-store bakery in Lincoln.Turnover is up from £5,000 a week – when bakery manager Nick Markiewicz took over seven years ago – to £13,000, which wowed the judges at Sainsbury’s National Retail ...
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United Biscuits up for sale
Biscuit maker United Biscuits has formally put itself up for sale by sending financial packs to potential buyers.Premier Foods and RHM are both expected to have asked for the information and first-round bids are thought to be due by the end of this month. However, United Biscuits’s future will be ...
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NewsEditor tackles Blair on small shops
British Baker’s editor Sylvia Macdonald was among a small group of journalists invited to interview Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week. In light of the All Party Small Shops Group parliamentary reports, Sylvia asked the Prime Minister if the amount of red tape, restricted access for deliveries, limited parking ...
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Double D boosts Gadsby’s
Gadsby’s Bakery in Mill Park, Southwell, is benefiting from the installation of a Humidair Retarder Prover from Double D Food Engineering (Broxburn, West Lothian), which it says has smoothed out “the peaks and troughs” in its production. “The Humidair Retarder Prover has been a tremendous boost for us,” says master ...
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In Brief
Bakels’ Low Gi bread mix helped the firm take the titles of Oxfordshire Business of the Year and Innovation of the Year. The Bicester-based company launched a successful marketing campaign behind the product, which included leafleting 1.3 million consumers through 1,300 independent bakers. Bakels now has plans for a new ...
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Improve calls on industry to draft diploma
Food and drink manufacturers are being urged to help draft a new industry diploma, as well as share their experiences of training older workers.Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, wants input from employers on a new vocational qualification for 14- to 19-year-olds that will be an alternative to ...
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Jordans capitalises on trend
Jordans Cereals is expanding its range of cereal bars with the new Nut & Seed Bar. The company says the launch is a result of increased popularity amongst consumers of nuts and seeds.Jordans Original Crunchy was the first cereal bar launched in the UK in 1980, claims the firm. The ...
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Country Choice extends thaw-and-sell line
Country Choice has added several new products to its thaw-and-sell ranges as well as a Bake & Bite branded sandwich wedge pack.The company, based in Orpington, Kent, has added two new thaw-and-sell ready-baked, thick-sliced square-style loaves to its bread range, aimed at sandwich-making rather than retail sale. And it has ...
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Foster claims an upper hand
As preferred bakery specialists of Foster products in the UK, Brook Food Processing Equipment (Minehead, Somerset) says it has been impressed with the advance in technology that these have brought to its specialised market within the last few years. Foster displayed its range of refrigeration equipment at Food & Bake ...