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Bakery fined on contamination
A NORFOLK bakery has been fined a total of £2,000 after a contaminated bread roll was delivered to a canteen at Norwich City Hall – headquarters of Norwich Environmental Health Department.Ian Watkins of the Cottage Loaf Bakery, Hopton, near Yar-mouth, admitted selling sub-standard food when he appeared before Norwich magistrates. ...
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Byron Bay watch
The Byron Bay Cookie Company was founded by Maggi Miles and Gary Lines, fashion industry workers who returned to their native Australia after six years in New York. While considering their next business venture, the couple started baking for local markets under the name Pickles, Pies and Petticoats. Ms Miles ...
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Mills boost profits at Carr’s division
Three flour mills were the principal contributors to Carr’s Milling Industries’ food division seeing an 18% rise in pre-tax profits to £4.57m, in the 26 weeks to March 4, 2006. Sales were up over 40% to £110.4m. Carr’s said there was strong trading in the food division as it benefited ...
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In Brief
Latin American bakery firm Bimbo is entering the Chinese market through the acquisition of Beijing Panrico Food Processing Center from Spain’s Panrico, in a deal valued at E9.2m. The local company produces a variety of baked goods, including chocolate-filled bread buns; in Spain Panrico’s Bollycao filled buns are market leader.Budgens ...
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Extranet launch by British Sugar
British Sugar has launched BS Connect, an extranet service designed to provide its custo-mers with information to suit their individual requirements.The launch, says British Sugar, is in response to customer needs for real-time, confidential and instant access to information, including pricing data. Marketing operations manager Myra Hales says the service ...
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NewsCereform new cookie mix
New Manhattan Cookie Mix from Cereform (Northampton) produces a US-style cookie, which offers a taste and texture more suited to the UK market, says the company. Available in chocolate or plain, bakers can add fruit, nuts or chocolate to the mix to give a signature cookie.Manhattan Cookie Mix requires the ...
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Cookies for everyone
Forget sitting down for tea and biscuits, it seems everyone wants a cookie-on-the-go these days. According to TNS, the freshly baked cookie market was worth a healthy £26.9m in the 52 weeks to April 23, 2006 – up 4.8% year-on-year. Influenced by the coffee shop sector, consumers are seeking individual ...
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A Rich range of cookies
Rich’s (Fareham, Hampshire) Premier range of bake-off cookies is aimed at the top end of the market. It also offers a new range of individually wrapped thaw-and-serve cookies in triple choc chunk, white choc chunk and milk choc chunk. The range has been created from recipes developed by Rich’s US ...
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NewsCookies
Macphie (Glenbervie, Scotland) has launched premium Soft & Chewy Cookie Mix in four flavours, made with non-hydrogenated fat. The ‘add-water’ mixes are available in plain, chocolate, chocolate chunk and oat & raisin. Ian Wolfenden, commercial director, bakery solutions, says the Soft & Chewy mixes offer greater economy than buying in ...
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Food Design cuts hydrogenated fats
Food Design (Harrogate, Yorks) has announced it now uses non-hydrogenated vegetable oils in the manufacture of its fudge and toffee ingredients. The company says this healthy option retains taste and eye appeal while offering high performance. Food Design has recently developed natural mint and citrus fruit flavoured high-boiled confectionery for ...
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RHM: don’t miss the oat
For bakers who are unable to bake cookies from scratch, McDougalls Cookie Mixes from RHM (Reading) are described as quick and easy to use and deliver a ‘home-made’ taste.McDougalls has introduced an oat cookie mix to complement its plain and chocolate varieties, which produces cookies that are crunchy on the ...
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NewsSupport for Doughnut Week
Over 500 craft bakers across the UK are taking part in National Doughnut Week this week, sel-ling doughnuts to raise money for charity The Children’s Trust.Christopher Freeman, owner of Dunn’s Bakery in Crouch End, London, and founder of National Doughnut Week said: “We hope to do better than last year, ...
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NewsKanomix from Zeelandia
Kanomix from Zeelandia (Billericay, Essex) is named after a traditional Dutch cookie product and can be used to create cookies with a vanilla and buttery taste. The firm says Kanomix has excellent leavening and offers a crispy eat; it requires only the addition of butter or margarine and egg or ...
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Limiting Sundays
Retail union Usdaw has welcomed a commitment from Prime Minister Tony Blair to listen to its case against further extension of Sunday shopping hours for larger stores.Speaking at the union’s annual conference last week, the PM pledged to meet with Usdaw general secretary John Hannett to hear objections to extension ...
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NewsNA in a social whirl
At the National Associa-tion of Master Bakers (NA) conference, held at the May Bank Holiday weekend, in Stratford-upon-Avon, social events played an important part.The Neil Houliston memorial cup was presented in memory of Keith Houliston’s son Neil, who tragically died in a car crash on Christmas Day this last December. ...
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NewsViewpoint
Many congratulations to Hovis on its 120th birthday! And particular congratulations to all the millers and bakers who have maintained the standard over the years, enabling the loaf to hold such a prominent place in our hearts – and on the shelves of course.Colin Lomax, RHM technical manager, merits a ...
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NewsCraft concessions add up to £45m
THE NA has saved craft bakers at least £45million over the last year, said chairman Noel Grout. It has saved the craft industry an estimated £10m a year and £10m in set up costs by gaining a concession from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on EU Animal ...
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NewsCountry Style acquires Schwan desserts plant
RAPIDLY expanding bakery supplier Country Style Foods has bought the former Schwan Global Cake Company frozen desserts factory in Bridlington, which was closed last month.Leeds-based Country Style said it had no immediate plans to re-open the site, following its asset purchase from administrators. Chairman Tony Wood said in a statement: ...
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NewsGiles adds value
With the sale of its quiche manufacturing plant to The Food Investment Group at the end of January, Milton Keynes-based Giles Foods closed the door on nearly 30 years of producing and selling chilled quiches. But why sell a successful business that had grown by 150% in its previous year? ...