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Family firm to close doors as Inter Link consolidates
Inter LINK Foods is to close the recently-acquired Hoppers Farmhouse Bakery in a bid to consolidate operations. The 16,000sq ft factory in Herne Bay, Kent, will shut its doors early next year, with the loss of 130 jobs, when production will transfer to Inter Link’s highly automated 70,000sq ft Blackburn ...
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Controlling interest
Bakers have embraced retarder-provers in recent years as the concept has developed dramatically, both in technology and the consistency of results. The latest machines employ sophisticated microprocessors and refrigeration advances, for perfect production in a variety of situations and with almost any type of bread and baked product. The ...
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Playing it cool
Excessively high temperatures at its Northwich, Cheshire, bakery led Frank Roberts & Sons to seek an effective cooling system.Roberts Bakery produces over two million bakery products a week for retail, catering and foodservice customers throughout the UK and Europe. Before the new system was installed, it was using general ventilation, ...
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Honeytop gains naan licence
Honeytop Speciality Foods is celebrating big sales increases resulting from its new ‘champagne’ naan breads.The speciality flatbread manufacturer came up with what it believes are the most authentic naans on the market, after upgrading production methods. The breads have a soft open texture and irregular bubbling as well as the ...
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Letter
The situation in the UK’s bakery colleges is a cause for concern to the whole of the industry.If the present trends continue, then the majority of employees in the craft baking industry will have no access to a bakery college. It is precisely because of this situation, which has been ...
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Sayers workers in protest march
FamilieS of workers threa-tened with redundancy at Liver-pool bakery Sayers marched through the streets in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs.Protesters called on owner, Lyndale Foods, to invest in the site to help improve efficiency rather than shed more than 180 jobs and transfer much of the production to ...
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NewsWizards of Oz
For the past 15 years, Ian Martin, site manager of Manchester-based Martins Bakers and Sandwich Makers, has been involved in the artisan bakery scene in Australia, most recently giving specialist help to market leaders in organic sourdough bread, such as Brasserie Bread in Sydney and Dench Bakers in Melbourne. He ...
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NewsPressure Point
The feeling among millers is that this year’s crop is very good but, to mix farming metaphors, you should never count your chickens. Two years ago a month-long August downpour put a dampener on what in June-July was a great crop, leading to low Hagberg, low protein and quality issues. ...
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NewsA woman’s touch
A straight-talking Mancunian has just taken over as national president of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA). You may think there is nothing unusual in that, but Shirley Ryder is not only the youngest person ever to hold the post but she’s also the first woman to be crowned ...
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Maple Leaf invests £12m in New York Bagel line
Maple LEAF BAKERY has unveiled a new £12m bagel line for the New York Bagel Company at its Rotherham site.The automated line has been installed in a new building and, according to deputy managing director Guy Hall, is believed to be the largest in the world producing bagels by the ...
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NewsFunding for adult training courses heading for crisis
BAKERY colleges nationwide are struggling to obtain funding and senior tutors are being put under threat of redundancy and early retirement. Jane Hatton, co-ordinator for bakery and sugar courses at Brooklands, who is widely known throughout the industry and acts as a national examiner for external students, has been given ...
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Good weather alone will not dictate wheat prices
The current good weather in wheat growing areas of the UK does not necessarily bode well for this year’s harvest, warns Ian Pinner, managing director of ADM Milling.He told British Baker: “There is much speculation about the crops at the moment but the perception that this year’s crop looks ...
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Délifrance’s frozen assets
According to market data from consulting and research firm Gira, demand for frozen bread, particularly in the sandwich sector is growing and this trend is confirmed by bakery products supplier Délifrance. “The UK’s sandwich market is estimated to be worth £3.5bn,” says Lucy Pickersgill, UK marketing controller for Délifrance. “Our ...
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NewsUnion strikes back at attacks on pensions
Last week’s annual Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) conference gave its full backing to the union’s efforts to counter the erosion of final pension schemes that is prevalent across many industry sectors. It also opposed government moves to raise the retirement age.Bakers are being treated no differently to ...
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Golf attracts record turnout
A record number of golfers played one of the country’s most difficult courses at the British Society of Baking’s (BSB) Golden Jubilee Golf day, last month.Moved to the Belfry from its traditional Aspley Guise and Woburn Sands Golf Club venue, 110 BSB members and guests braved blustery conditions and ...
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NewsEasyOrders wins silver award for innovation
A new web-based system that gives sandwich shop owners a quick and easy solution to selling their products online has received a top award for innovation.Easy Orders received a Silver Total Innovation Award at the Total Snack and Sandwich Show, held at Business Design Centre in Islington recently. The ...
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Bringing home the bacon
New low-fat and reduced-salt bacon products are being developed by Northampton-based TMI Foods in conjunction with sandwich and food manufacturers in the UK and continental Europe, which the company supplies.TMI has also responded to Government directives to lower the salt content of foods and worked with customers to meet consumer ...
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NewsA simple country bake
Reading Sylvia Macdonald’s Viewpoint in the British Baker ofFeb17th one thing that struck me was the point she made referring to the fact that Governments paid little real heed to comments made by Trade Associations with membership of less than three thousand.This made me think where does that leave the ...
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NewsIrish bakers find strength in numbers
Artisan bakers in the Irish Republic are getting up a head of steam following an inspirational address in the National Bakery School, Dublin, last year by Robert Ditty, a leader of the artisan baking movement in Northern Ireland.Derek O’Brien, head of the Bakery School, explains that Robert Ditty made a ...