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NewsRenshaw urges bakers to be choosy on ingredients
“Consumers are looking for a cake with immediate wow factor – something wonderful that takes their breath away and creates that sense of celebration,” says Susanne Edler of the Anglo-Austrian Patisserie and Gloriette Patisserie in London. “Our experience indicates that consumers want quality celebration cakes with high levels of individuality ...
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NewsB&D caters to unique demand
Essex-based firm Bekaert & Dupont (West Thurrock) says it always has to find innovative ways to decorate cakes. Demand for something unique to complement the finished product is ever-growing, says the firm. It constantly has to take a proactive approach, working with its sister company in Belgium, Ranson, to create ...
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Tesco’s Omega basket roll-out nears completion
Supermarket Tesco has revealed it will have completed a roll-out of standard-sized bread baskets to all its plant bread fixtures by the end of its financial year.The new “one-size-fits-all” 10-loaf “Omega” baskets are now being used to display bread in 400 of its supermarkets, in the Midlands and the south. ...
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NewsGreencore follows cost-cutting path and boosts profitability
Irish group Greencore is now down to 4,300 suppliers from 6,000 18 months ago, with the likelihood of a further reduction under its Total Lowest Cost cost-cutting programme.The group said the programme was contributing to a 2% per year cut in operating costs in its convenience foods division, whose bakery ...
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Kingsmill moves into ‘heat and share’ bread market
Allied Bakeries, part of Associated British Foods, is aiming to grab a piece of the chilled garlic bread market with the launch of Kingsmill-branded ‘heat and share’ ciabatta and flatbread products, made by fellow Allied com-pany Speedibake.The products, including salsa and smokey BBQ ciabatta, cheese-topped doughballs and roasted garlic flatbread, ...
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In Brief
A new guide from CCFRA, Crisis prevention through incident management: being prepared and responding effec-tively, aims to help food and drink firms prevent incidents, such as accidental contamination, from becoming crises that could damage or destroy their business. Tel: 01386 842225 or email: pubs@campden.co.uk.Allied Bakeries has appointed Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan ...
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NewsExperts calm fears over cross-border relaxation
A RELAXATION of cross-border laws, aimed at creating a free market for the services sector, should not result in an influx of European bakers setting up shop in the UK, experts suggest.The new European Services Directive is set to remove the legal and administrative bar-riers that can prevent businesses from ...
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Tesco fined on foam charge
Tesco has been ordered to pay more than £31,000 after a customer discovered a chunk of insulation foam inside a 400g white in-store bakery baguette. Sam Avery bought the sandwich at a Tesco Metro store in Norwich in 2004. Tesco pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on Monday to selling ...
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Dawn offers part-finished products
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) has produced a range of part-finished sheet cakes that can be thawed, finished and partitioned, allowing bakers to make their own mark on the finished product. The new sheet cakes are available in two flavours – carrot cake and chocolate brownie – and can be used ...
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Decoration at a touch-screen
Designing a personalised celebration cake has now been made easier for consumers with the introduction of Kluman & Balter’s (Waltham Cross) next generation of in-store high-tech systems. The new photo-decoration system allows consumers to input their choices at a free-standing compact console, via an interactive touch-screen display. They are guided ...
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Demand for sweet products goes upmarket, says Rich
Retail sales of sweet bakery products, such as doughnuts and muffins, rose by 4.8% in 2005 to £1.3bn, in part thanks to coffee shops giving consumers a taste for premium products, according to research by TNS for Rich Products.Rich’s UK sales and marke-ting director Simon Richardson said the higher demand ...
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Ronde des Pains moves into Europe
French milling company Moul-bie has started rolling out its “Ronde des Pains” artisan bakery concept in Europe, following success in the UK.Commercial director of Moul-bie Europe Michel Nguyen said the first shops have been launched in Ger-many, Italy and Sweden over the last few weeks.More than 1,000 French craft bakers ...
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NewsGreggs upscales its retail system
Bakery retailer Greggs has selected touchscreen computer specialist firm J2 Retail Systems to supply EPOS hardware into its Greggs and Bakers Oven stores. The contract – the result of a period of negotiation between J2 and Greggs to produce an embedded system – will initially see the installation of J2 ...
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Mariners hoists sail in London waters
Developed by London-based wholesale bakery Bagatelle, Mariner’s Bread contains 0.4g of salt per 100g and is based on the traditional ‘pain brie’ from Normandy. This was enjoyed by cod fisherman in the Normandy port of Honfleur, from the 16th century onwards, during their expeditions to Newfoundland. With a tight white ...
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Primebake jobs
Chilled speciality breadmaker New Primebake is on a recruitment drive following its acquisition by Icelandic food giant Bakkavör Group.The undisclosed deal is awaiting Office of Fair Trading approval in the the next few weeks, which would create the largest supplier of chilled bread products in the UK. Meanwhile, the firm ...
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NewsOpportunity knocks
Demand for celebration cakes in the UK market remains buoyant, according to a number of suppliers working in the sector. Moreover, the market is widely touted as not having yet reached its full potential, and opportunities to target different demographic profiles as well improve management of the category could see ...
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Medway talks up quality offering
Medway Foods is pushing its quality credentials after its management buyout of three Canterbury Foods pastry and ingredients’ plants in January.Chief executive Paul Ains-worth said Canterbury, which went into administration in January, had a reputation as a cheap manufacturer but that this was not the case and Medway was proving ...
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NewsPIECRAFT PERFECTION
Melton Mowbray – the battleground for the ongoing spat between industry giants Northern Foods and a handful of Melton Mowbray pork pie producers over the pie’s protected status – is a small town where pork pies and tourism are big businesses. In the Melton Mowbray area alone, tourism employs over ...
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Taking shape
With over 50 years’ experience in the baking and confectionery industries, Perrett and Kane Machine Services (Backwell, Bristol) has supplied the majority of celebration cake manufacturers with its machinery designs, including sheeters, horizontal cutters and shape stamping machines.Latest machine to join its range is the P&K 2D Shape Stamping, which ...
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Taking shape
With over 50 years’ experience in the baking and confectionery industries, Perrett and Kane Machine Services (Backwell, Bristol) has supplied the majority of celebration cake manufacturers with its machinery designs, including sheeters, horizontal cutters and shape stamping machines.Latest machine to join its range is the P&K 2D Shape Stamping, which ...