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Rich products trims lines after David Powell buy
Bakery supplier Rich Pro-ducts is rationalising its range in the UK, following its acquisition of craft business David Powell Bakeries in June 2005.The fresh bread to frozen muffins supplier has so far stopped producing around 10% of products, including slow sellers, such as Eccles cakes, UK MD George Thomopoulos told ...
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NewsJacobs’ workers agree to revised conditions
Some 300 workers at the Jacobs Biscuits plant in Dublin have voted in favour of a survival plan that will mean significant changes in work practices after an ultimatum from management, writes Hugh Oram.The three unions at the plant – Siptu, the ATGWU and the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Never accept statistics at face value as in this day and age they are usually slanted to put over one specific view. We are always being told about traffic deaths and the need for speed cameras. But in The Sunday Times it was reported that the AA had done a ...
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Puratos investigates tomorrow’s bakeries
A detailed insight into the wants and needs of UK consumers as they shop for fresh and pre-packed bread could help bakers improve their offer, according to new research from ingredients supplier Puratos.In the study, the Buckingham-based firm has looked at consumer experiences of and attitudes to bakeries throughout the ...
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Bakery firms first to join Improve scheme
Bakery companies have become the first employers to sign up to a new Young Apprenticeship Scheme, set up by food and drink skills council Improve.Nantwich-based New Prime-bake, Nottingham-based Smiths Flour Mills, and three craft bakeries in Suffolk will launch the scheme in September. The Suffolk bakeries involved are Crown Bakery, ...
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NewsSkills master-plan to beat shortages
A master-plan to boost skills in the food and drink manufacturing sector is being devised by sector skills council Improve.The Sector Skills Action-plan (SSA), due for launch in January 2007, will set out what needs to be done to alleviate skills shortages, which result in unfilled vacancies and skills gaps.According ...
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Spar gives boost to Kindness sales
Scottish wholesale and retail bakery Kindness Bakers says sales are up since it rebranded its two shops under the Spar fascia. The family bakery’s shops in New Deer and Maud Aberdeenshire, previously traded under the Mace fascia for 15 years, but have just officially launches as Spar. Sales have increased ...
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NewsThe Bread Factory comes under one roof
Wholesale bakery The Bread Factory has opened its new 18,000sq ft bakery, after a year of planning and six months of building. The company, which won British Baker’s Speciality Bread Award in 2005 (sponsored by Tesco), has moved its three bakeries from Stanmore and Park Royal in London to one ...
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Cake Break Day to raise multiple sclerosis funding
On April 28, thousands of people around the country will host an MS Cake Break party to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.The society wants bakers and ingredients companies to get involved by promoting the event to customers, encouraging them to buy cakes to host coffee mornings or afternoon ...
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In Brief
- Jenny Hudson, a former pastry chef with Claridges, will be making a cake for the first wedding anniversary of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. It will be a chocolate cake decorated with berries and chocolate swirls. Ms Hudson runs her Warwickshire based company, Sweet As, ...
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Tesco’s Tony Reed speaks up at BSB
Tesco bakery director Tony Reed will speak about Tesco bakery and new opportunities at the British Society of Baking’s (BSB) Spring Conference later this month.This will be his last public function in his role as bakery director, after his recent promotion (British Baker, March 3, pg 4). He will be ...
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News‘Caring’ wholesaler with heart for retail
Taking over the running of three ailing bakery shops, when you are a successful wholesale-only company, because you thought the staff appeared “conscientious and caring”, may not sound like the kind of hard-nosed business decision that would impress the Alan Sugars or Donald Trumps of this world. However, as David ...
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NewsTBS offers cream of Continent
A new firm, Tromp Bakery Systems (TBS) (stand J200 at Food & Bake), has been formed to supply bakery and food processing equipment from five specialist European manufacturers to the UK and Irish food industries.Although the Hereford-based company is new, the range of equipment it offers is already well-established.As the ...
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Welsh firm regains contract
Welsh wholesale bakery Popty Cae Groes, based in Bethesda, Snowdonia, has regained the contract to supply supermarket Morrisons with its speciality bara brith and Welsh cakes. These had previously been delisted after Morrisons bought Safeway.The bakery’s cause was helped by customer pressure in north and mid-Wales after aficionados of bara ...
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NewsLightbody Czechs out into overseas market
Scottish cake company Lightbody of Hamilton is to build a £2m factory in the Czech Republic and launch joint ventures in Asia and America, in a global expansion.Managing director Martin Lightbody told British Baker Lightbody has supplied overseas markets including France, Italy and Spain over the last couple of years ...
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HACCP data in hand
From January 2006 bakers were required to keep permanent HACCP records under a new EU directive. To help companies achieve this, Electronic Temperature Instruments (ETI) (stand B530) says it has developed a cost-effective system that is user-friendly and doesn’t sacrifice quality or accuracy.The system records temperature readings, dates and times, ...
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Deal for diabetic
A bakery assistant has reached a settlement with a bakery in Gloucestershire after she was dismissed because she was a diabetic.The Disability Rights Commision (DRC) took up the case of Elizabeth Morrison, 51, dismissed from the Emma’s Country Cakes plant in Coleford. Management at the firm told Morrison that there ...
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Ethnic food firms told to export
Manufacturers of ethnic foods should consider selling in mainland Europe, due to saturation in some market sectors in the UK, says market development consultancy Food from Britain (FFB). It claims the market in Spain is growing by 30% a year, for example, and Belgium is also strong.Buoyant sectors in ethnic ...
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Happy families
An association dedicated to assisting Scotland’s vast number of family businesses has officially come into being, thanks in no small measure to the drive of a prominent craft baker. George Stevenson, MD of Falkirk-based Mathiesons Bakers, has been a leading light in the development of the Scottish Family Business Association ...
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Four shows in one
Bakers looking to broaden their business can kill four birds with one stone by visiting Birmingham NEC on March 19-22. Alongside bakery showcase Food & Bake will be three other shows – Food & Drink Expo, Foodex Meatex and the Convenience Retailing Show.Sponsored by Food from Britain, Ideas to Dine ...