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NewsViewpoint
This week’s issue brings the news Harvestime’s Walsall bakery is finally out of administration after six months in limbo. For a company of the calibre of Maple Leaf Bakery to gallop in at the eleventh hour talking about expanding the existing business must be a dream come true for the ...
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NewsSpeakers address the BSB
more than 150 delegates attended the British Society of Baking’s 50th Jubilee conference in Birmingham this week. Members heard papers from eminent industry figures including Greggs MD, Sir Michael Darrington, who spoke about the importance of “Greggs’ People” and making sure corporate values run through a business “from bakery to ...
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Aga in growth
Aga Foodservice Group said it saw strong sales and profits in 2005. Revenue rose 15.7% to £501.8m while pre-tax profits were up 18.5% to £43m.Chief executive William McGrath said earnings growth reflected a successful strategy over the past five years based on premium cookers and refrigeration. This has resulted in ...
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GR Wright & Sons
Independent miller GR Wright & Sons (London) offers a US-style donut mix packed in 12kg bags. The mix produces long-life donuts with low fat pick-up. It requires the addition of yeast and water to produce golden donuts with a light, open texture, says the company.
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NewsSainsbury’s launches apprenticeship scheme
Sainsbury’s is targeting school leavers for an in-store Bakery Apprenticeship Scheme which it plans to roll out to all 360 of its scratch bakeries.The supermarket plans to recruit the first 30 trainees to pilot the scheme in the north east and London this year. It hopes to introduce a further ...
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BakeMark teams up with Nestlé
BakeMark UK (Wirral, Merseyside) is launching two Nestlé doughnuts – the Rolo and Toffee Crisp. With the ring doughnut market currently growing at 26% year on year, BakeMark UK has identified value-added doughnuts as a core category for future NPD and investment.The thaw/serve doughnuts weigh 65g and come in boxes ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Scientists believe lust has a lifespan of only two years, so thank goodness we are in the bakery business, where my best-selling lines of 20 years ago are still my top sellers today. (On a personal note, I am sure my lust lasted longer than two years, but I cannot ...
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Canadian giant tipped to take over Walsall bakery
Canada’s market leader in industrial baking is tipped to be pushing further into the UK with the purchase of Walsall’s Harvestime (2005) bakery.Industry giant Maple Leaf Foods, which operates Canada Bread and owns the New York Bagel brand, is understood to have entered negotiations with administrators last week.It is now ...
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Donut Tree blossoms
“People are switching back to doughnuts,” according to Noel Johnston. Mr Johnston is owner of the newly opened Donut Tree, a retail outlet in Lisburn’s Bow Street Mall in Northern Ireland. He has worked in the catering business for over 15 years, attending sporting events and exhibitions with a specialist ...
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In Brief
- Ingredients and sugar company Tate & Lyle has formed a joint venture with an Israeli partner to build and operate a sugar plant supplying products to users in the Israeli market. This will partially replace traditional sugar imports from the Eropean Union, which will be restricted following European sugar ...
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NewsFudge brownie
Makes around 30 brownies Granulated sugar - 265g Plain flour - 100g Self raising flour - 29g Cocoa powder 10/12 - 29g Whole egg - 165g Vegetable oil - 28g Glycerine - 19g Glucose syrup - 61g Butter (melted)- 84g ...
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NewsBSB marks Jean Grieves’ service to society
The British Society of Baking’s conference chairman Jean Grieves stepped down at the Society’s 50th jubilee conference this week.Ms Grieves, who has organised the past 25 of the society’s bi-annual conferences, was presented with an inscribed crystal rose bowl, a bottle of champagne and a bouquet of flowers as 300 ...
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Cadbury in-store
Kitchen Range Foods (Huntingdon, Cambs) is building on its Cadbury Mini Dipping Donuts with the launch of Cadbury Twinpack Donuts.Each pack contains two full-sized donuts covered in Cadbury milk chocolate and chocolate pieces. The packs retail at 79p and are on sale in Tesco stores, with a roll-out in Asda ...
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NewsNew chief executive of the NA
Chairman of the National Association of Master Bakers, Noel Grout, is pleased to announce on behalf of the association and its board that Gill Brooks-Lonicon has been appointed chief executive of the NA from November. Current chief executive David Smith will be retiring on that date.
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NewsFACE TO FACE - LIZ HAIGH-REEVE, Director of Fundraising, The Children’s Trust
Q. How did you get involved with The Children’s Trust?A. I am director of fundraising so my role is to drive the whole fundraising operation. I have been here for seven years. I’ve always worked within the voluntary sector. I previously worked for three other charities including the National Society ...
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NewsA new Dawn for communications
Following company growth over the past two years and the changing demands of the bakery market, bakery supplier Dawn Foods recently organised training for its senior executives to share information, skills, experience, knowledge and learning across Europe.Thirty-five senior executives from the ingredients and finished products’ company operations in Ireland, England, ...
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Industry lobbies soften FSA salt content targets
The FOOD Standards Agency has bowed to pressure from food industry bodies including the Federation of Bakers with revised targets for salt content in foods including bread.The new voluntary targets, published on Tuesday include 1.1g salt (or 430mg sodium) per 100g on pre-packed bread and rolls by 2010. Targets will ...
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NewsCut the fat, keep the taste
Cereform (Northampton) has re-engineered its doughnut mixes so finished product contains 25% less fat.The company offers both cake and yeast-raised versions of the reduced-fat doughnut mixes, which it claims taste as good as traditional ‘full-fat’ products. Cereform says yeast-raised recipes are suitable for moulded, sheeted or extruded production processes and ...
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Mowbray pie dispute goes European
Northern Foods is likely to have to wait another 18 months for a verdict, as it takes its fight to prevent Melton Mowbray Pork Pies from gaining Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to the European Court of Justice. It announced last week it is continuing a long-running battle against moves ...
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National Doughnut Week draws near
British Baker is proud to support National Doughnut Week 2006 on May 6-13. All high street craft bakers can register – to do their bit for charity and reap the significant business benefits of getting involved. National Doughnut Week, sponsored by BakeMark UK, raises money for The Children’s Trust, ...