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NewsJust Puds looks to Ireland as distribution expands
Premium desserts business Just Puds is to be listed by an Irish distributor following a recent listing with London-based chilled foods wholesaler Bespoke Foods, which supplies 600 independent retail outlets.The firm, which revamped its image earlier this year, is also developing ambient products to add to its existing range and ...
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FWP Matthews invests in warehouse
Independent flour miller FWP Matthews is to build a £1m warehouse at its Cotswold base in Shipton under Wychwood. Work will start on the 675sq m building in late summer and will be finished by the end of the year. It will house a new automated palletiser to speed up ...
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NewsRoom for manoeuvre
For many baking companies over the years, the decision to move to new premises has been motivated primarily by a need for more space. Their old bakery was not designed to cope with growing levels of production and had become cramped, so the familiar argument runs. But not so in ...
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NewsThe sandwich specialists
THE WINNERS OF THE SAMMIES 2006The British Sandwich Industry Award 2006Phillip Brown, founder of Philpotts sandwich bar chain, Chester Sandwich Retail Multiple of the Year AwardMarks & SpencerBSA Sandwich Manufacturer of the YearFreshway Foods, WolverhamptonEn Route Sandwich Retailer of the Year AwardMarks & Spencer – for its development of Simply ...
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Technical thinking
The Peebles Hydro Hotel was the setting for the Scottish Association of Master Bakers’ (SAMB) ‘James Scott’ technical sessions, held on 29 May. Presentations ranged from the art of pulled sugar modelling to staff recruitment and new bakery investment. In the first session, Ian McInally, lecturer in catering studies from ...
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NewsViewpoint
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Allied Baking and Milling Group’s new CEO, the cheery antipodean Brian Robinson, at Allied’s headquarters in Maidenhead. Robinson arrived in the UK last November and was then struck down by a mystery bout of pneumonia – perhaps an extreme reaction to the ...
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19th Baking Industry Awards
With the government due to announce the location of Britain’s first super-casino in December, avid gamblers across the country will be brushing off their smart suits and counting their gaming chips.But this year’s Baking Industry Awards could give you the opportunity to practise your gaming skills well in advance. At ...
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NewsAndrew Gordon Shaw 1958 - 2006
RHM has announced the death of Andrew Gordon Shaw, 47, the commercial director of its Fleming Howden division in Scotland. Gordon had been battling cancer since Christmas, and passed away in the early hours of 16 May at Strathcarron Hospice in Denny, writes Jon Tanner.Gordon joined Rank Hovis in 1979 ...
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Baker gets £5k in bullying case
AN employment tribunal in Scotland has awarded a bakery worker £5,000 in compensation after he alleged he was forced to quit his job because of bullying.Thomas Dempsey, a bakery assistant at A&A Bakers of Linwood for six years, claimed that the bakery owner was abusive and intimidating.He said he quit ...
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Manor suppliers ‘asked for refund’
RHM has declined to comment on allegations that suppliers to its Manor Bakeries division have been asked to make a 5% refund on invoices paid over the last 12 months.An anonymous letter, sent to British Baker, suggests machinery manufacturers were invited to a meeting with Manor Bakeries’ procurement team earlier ...
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NewsScottish Association of Master Bakers Conference at Peebles
The creation of a new training centre for Scottish bakers was announced at the Scottish Association of Master Bakers (SAMB) conference, held from May 27-29 in Peebles. Scotland’s first ever Scottish Bakery Training Centre at Larbert, Stirlingshire, which is almost complete, was described by President John Murray as “highly significant ...
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NewsA simple country baker
You just cannot believe it! First of all, the dodgy lot who run the country – laughingly known as politicians – tax our pension system into meltdown. Then they impose way-above-inflation wage increases through the minimum wage and, having ruined the pension system, are now proposing we all pay a ...
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Northern Foods set to slash its bakery division
Northern Foods insisted it will not be “holding a fire sale” after revealing it is to divest many of its bakery businesses over the next 12 months.The supplier said this week it wants to dispose of businesses which currently account for 40% of its sales, including Park Cakes, Fletchers Bakery, ...
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Strategic review prompts closure of Surrey bakery
British BAKERIES has announced plans to close its Byfleet bakery in Surrey, with the loss of 61 jobs.Following a strategic review of manufacturing capacity and supply chains, the company plans to consolidate operations into its sites at Forest Gate (London) and Erith (Kent). Production of Hovis, Granary and farmhouse loaves ...
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Greggs looks to Scottish growth with new bakery
Bakery retailer Greggs is to relocate its main Scottish bakery to a new purpose-built site, as part of a strategy to grow its Scottish business. It has planning permission to move out of its Rutherglen bakery in Glasgow to a new multi-million pound bakery 2.5 miles away on the Clydesmill ...
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Bakery cabinets
Foster Refrigerator (Kings Lynn, Norfolk) says bakery cabinet retarders are now available as part of its Gastro Pro range.The Gastro Pro bakery cabinet retarders, storage refrigerators and freezers have been developed to provide reliability and a high specification at a competitive price, says Foster. The bakery cabinets are energy efficient ...
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Serpentine continuous stone baking
Auto-Bake (Birmingham) says it has fused modern continuous baking technology with the traditional stone hearth. The new stone hearth Serpentine can be used for the production of baguettes, buns, sourdoughs, ryes, Turkish bread and ciabattas, says the company. The stones are easily exchanged for standard baking trays and tins, it ...
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Benevolent ball
THE Bakers’ Benevolent Society is holding its first Mid-Summer Ball at the Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park, London on June 22. The event starts with a champagne reception, followed by a five-course banquet and then dancing to a live band. Tickets cost £100 per person or £900 per table of 10.Contact ...
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Bott has designs on in-vehicle equipment storage
Bott’s (Ashby, Leics) modular in-vehicle storage and workshop solutions enables users to transform their commercial vehicles into safe working environments to support service, engineering, maintenance and delivery applications, says the company.Tools and other items are stored securely when the vehicle is in motion but are readily available when needed. As ...