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Craft and creativity in Crouch End
When people eulogise about the need to diversify a craft retail bakery business, few can claim to have taken it as much to heart as Dunns of Crouch End. French farmers’ markets, gay wedding cakes and, perhaps more ill-advisedly, letting a film crew run amok, destroying the shop, are just ...
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Kaybee strikes expanded deal
Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Herts) has invested in a new delivery fleet to make its “one-stop-shop” of specialist ingredients for plant bakers more efficient. The artics were chosen to make larger, multiple pallet deliveries to the company’s larger customers.Kaybee offers its own ingredients range, as well as other specialist ...
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Gordon Shaw
Gordon Shaw, commercial director of Fleming Howden sadly died on Tuesday morning May 16. He had been suffering from cancer since Christmas. His funeral will take place tomorrow, Saturday May 20, 10am at St Mungo’s chapel, Marr St, Alloa Clackmananshire. All welcome.
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NewsMulti-tier leaflets from UK Point of Sale
UK Point of Sale (Heaton Mersey, Stockport) has launched a range of multi-tier leaflet dispensers that can be connected to create different shaped displays.A total of five connectable leaflet dispensers, up to four tiers high, can be attached by easy-to-use joining clips. The clear dispensers are available in A4 and ...
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PICKINGAsda’s bakery director Huw Edwards says Asda is generally pretty happy with its plant bread suppliers and the service they offer. But Edwards believes that automated selection of products by plant bakers for store deliveries – as opposed to the current system of manual picking – may lead to greater ...
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Three senior personnel have joined the Liverpool headquarters of ingredients supplier Renshaw, now part of the Real Good Food company. Managing director STEPHEN HESLOP joins the firm from Grampian Country Food Group, where he was regional managing director (Scotland). This followed four years in managing director roles at Golden West ...
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NewsDean’s to double turnover with £1.6m plan
Capacity at Dean’s of Huntly will increase by 70% once construction of a new production area is completed this summer as part of a three-stage, £1.6 million investment programme, writes Ian Martin. Work has already begun on extending the production area at Huntly from 40,000 to 60,000sq ft. According to ...
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Loyalty rewarded with 100th birthday cake
CHESHIRE bakery Chatwins helped a pensioner who had been coming into the store for more than 80 years celebrate her 100th birthday.Chatwins of Nantwich offered Sarah Darlington a bouquet of flowers and a cake to mark the occasion. Mrs Darlington had been coming into the bakery once a week ...
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New-look loaves mark Hovis’ 120th birthday
British Bakeries is to relaunch its wholemeal Hovis loaves as it celebrates the 120th birthday of the Hovis brand.New-look 800g and 400g wholemeal loaves, in opaque tomato or baked beans packaging, flagged ‘new improved recipe’, will be available from this week, marketing manager Alyson Ebbrell told British Baker. The recipe ...
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News120 years of Hovis history
RHM is celebrating the 120th anniversary of its ‘nourishing and nice’ Hovis brand this month, with a £1m advertising campaign. Hovis bread, which launched in 1886, has picked up many fans, including Queen Victoria, over the decades. It is still made using a patented wheatgerm flour, but was ...
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Adding value with inclusions
Renshaw (Liverpool, Merseyside) offers a range of ingredients to help bakers make value-added cookies. The company recommends adding its bake-stable, dark chocolate flavour chips to any of its basic cookie dough, pucks or mixes to make chocolate chip cookies. The chips are said not to lose their flavour during cooking ...
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Premium products to Adore
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) supplies the Adore brand, which comprises four lines of individually-wrapped premium bakery products: muffins, brownies, indulgence cakes and US-style cookies, available in a variety of flavours.The company says the brand has been developed to meet a need for high quality, individually packaged bakery goods, suitable for ...
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NewsFACE TO FACE - ANDREW POLLARD, Sales and Marketing Director, Cereform
Q. Tell me about the background of Cereform.A. Cereform is part of AB Mauri, the yeast and bakery ingredients division of Associated British Foods. The company dates back to 1982, when Associated British Foods set up AB Ingredients. It merged with Kingsgate Food Ingredients in 2001 and later that year ...
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NewsLocal craft bakery fights Greggs arrival next door
A LOCAL craft baker says he is fighting to save his livelihood after finding out bakery take-away giant Greggs has bought the shop next door to his.Mr Mejar Singh, who owns WC Masters & Son bakery in Atherstone, North Warwick-shire, found out a month ago that the former hairdresser next ...
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Holland’s grabs CNN’s attention
American broadcaster CNN was inspired by the recent visit of American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the north-west to recommend activities for her to enjoy during her stay. It put Accrington-based pie company Holland’s Pies on her proposed itinerary, deciding the company is synonymous with the region. CNN reporters ...
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NewsInter Link sales hit as Mr Kipling bounces back
Cake giant Inter Link had its first major setback last week as it issued a surprise profit warning, blaming unsuccessful promotional activity in April.Inter Link said April is traditionally one of its busiest trading periods, but that significant promotional activity had been unsuccessful. Like-for-like sales for the year to May ...
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Milkybar cookies are on BakeMark
BakeMark UK (Wirral, Merseyside) has worked with Nestlé to launch a range of licenced cookies, which target the trend for indulgent treats. The Toffee Crisp soft-bake cookie features chunks of chocolate and crunchy Toffee Crisp pieces, while Milkybar mini cookies are full of white chocolate pieces. Also available are chewy, ...
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Ludlow baker gets to finals
Peter Cook, joint owner of Ludlow-based SC Price & Sons, has been named a finalist in the Waitrose Small Producer of the Year competition.His winning entry is a Pain au Levain sourdough bread, based on flour from Shipton Mill, which took him three to four years to develop. At £2.60, ...
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Bakers welcome grocery trade referral
Bakers have welcomed news this week that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will refer the supply of groceries by UK retailers to the Competition Commission (CC) for investigation.National Association of Master Bakers (NA) chief executive David Smith told British Baker: “This is a lot more than we dared hope ...