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News2006:THE YEAR AHEAD
The cost of utilities such as energy and fuel, and their potential impact upon pricing, will be the key challenge for our supply base and ourselves in the year ahead. This has only begun to emerge as a major issue over the past few months but will inevitably snowball.Other challenges ...
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News2006:THE YEAR AHEAD
We hope to stimulate government ministers, civil servants and local authorities to recognise the importance of small shops on the high streets. We use the term ‘high street’, but it could be a suburban shopping centre, a village or small shops in general. I would like to see progress on ...
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NewsTime to add as well as subtract
Healthy eating is a key driver of innovation in baking, but new product developers have tended to cut salt, sugar and fat, rather than add ‘functional’ ingredients that deliver specific health benefits. This stands in contrast to other sectors of the food industry, where functional foods are well established. In ...
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ADM reduces trans fats with non-hydrogenated alternatives
ADM Speciality Oils & Fats (Koog aan de Zaan, the Netherlands) has extended its range of low trans fat products to provide a healthier variation to traditional fats in bakery, confectionery and frying applications.Pura low trans fat shortening consists of unhydrogenated vegetable oils and can be used in cakes, crèmes ...
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Healthy cake sales soar, says Anthony Alan
Sales of WeightWatchers cakes grew by 38.1% in the year to July 2005, according to TNS figures, says Anthony Alan Foods (Barnsley, Yorkshire), which supplies the cakes under licence. UK sales director Mark Rooza says: “NPD is at the heart of the sales success. We’ve developed techniques to produce what ...
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Functional fare for Food & Bake
Fayrefield FoodTec (Crewe, Cheshire) will be exhibiting its new range of healthier ingredients and mixes for cakes, breads and morning goods at Food & Bake at the NEC in March.These include Geltec clean-label egg replacer, which increases shelf-life and lowers cholesterol content. Mixes containing no hydrogenated fats will also be ...
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Asda awards own-label bread contract to RHM
Asda has transferred own-label business worth an estimated £10 million a year from Allied Bakeries to RHM Bread Bakeries.Allied will stop supplying private-label to Asda at the end of February, apart from two lines – its “Big Loaf” in medium- and thick-sliced. It will continue to supply a range of ...
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Bakels benefits from Multiseed Concentrate
Bakels is starting an advertising campaign in consumer magazines, highlighting the benefits of seeds in bread. The campaign, which does not feature Bakels’ branding, starts this month. It has a slogan “Great Taste, Great Waist”. The campaign includes advertisements in health-related magazines, women’s and diet magazines and point-of-sale package for ...
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BakeMark UK put to the GI test
“Consumers are starting to follow the principles of low-glycaemic index (GI) eating, cutting high-GI food intake in favour of low-GI foods that raise blood glucose more slowly to maintain constant energy levels,” says BakeMark UK’s (Wirral, Merseyside) trade marketing manager David Astles. “The message that carbohydrates are good for you ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Another year is over and we have survived. In fact, to be truthful, we have had a pretty good year, so we have a warm glow of satisfaction that we can soon give a good proportion of the little money we have made to the politicians to waste! Have you ...
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Harvestime bakery: can Walsall survive?
Administrators were working against the clock to save Harvestime’s Walsall bakery as British Baker went to press. A rescue deal is being prepared with the company’s management. This will allow Harvestime to keep trading for two weeks, while a sale is finalised. Australian investor Ian Allen, who bought Harvestime (2005) ...
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Sodium slashed in baking powder
Baking powder supplier Kudos Blends (Kidderminster, Worcs) has developed a new range of low-sodium and no-sodium alternatives.The range provides an effective way for bakers to respond to current health concerns about sodium levels in the diet, says the company. Standard baking powder contains almost 20% sodium, but this can be ...
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Birds of Derby opens new format
CRAFT baker Birds of Derby has opened its 50th store, a trial of Birds’ Expresso unit.The takeaway outlet is in Derby’s Eagle Centre, and carries 65 lines from Birds’ standard range of around 200. Products on sale include hot and cold drinks, sausage rolls, filled rolls and baguettes, Birds’ six ...
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Scots given a heart and brain boost
Scottish bakery firm Black’s of Dunoon (Argyll) has recently launched a range of breads made from O’mega Bread, a 50% mix from specialist ingredients company Zeelandia (Billericay, Essex). The mix is enriched with omega 3 fatty acids, which have been shown to aid the efficient circulation of blood and functioning ...
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Which? criticises bulked-up sandwiches
Consumer group Which? has condemned some major retailers for bulking up chicken in sandwiches after analysing the contents of 26 lines.Researchers found only one sandwich, sold by Asda, in which the meat ingredient was 100% chicken. In other sandwiches, bought at stores including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose, meat ...
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Medway takes time to settle down business
A three-month review is under way at new company, Medway Foods, the business formed from a £7m management buyout (MBO) of four of Canterbury Foods’ pastry and food ingredients plants.Medway was set up after Canterbury went into administration on January 3, having failed to agree new terms for its £15m ...
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NewsInter Link claims number one own-label cake slot
Cake supplier Inter Link Foods claimed it is now the UK’s number one own-label cake company and said it has set its sights on Europe, as it posted a 51.8% hike in half year turnover to £67.2million this week.Chief executive Paul Griffiths also revealed to British Baker that the company’s ...
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Cereform
Products currently on retailers’ shelves, which claim to be low fat, can actually be anything up to 17% fat and consumers can feel misled, says ingredients manufacturer Cereform (Northampton). The company’s Choice products, which include cake mixes, concentrates, and icings, contain less than 3% fat. “These will become the benchmark ...
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NewsRetailers reveal Christmas trading performance
Bakery retailers have reported a “good” to “satisfactory” Christmas despite a “terminal decline” in sales of traditional Christmas lines such as Christmas puddings.The decline was widespread, from supermarkets to craft bakers, a British Baker straw poll of leading craft bakery and supermarket figures on the topic of Christmas trading ...
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Sugar replacer goes prebiotic
Danisco Sweeteners’ (Redhill, Surrey) Litesse polydextrose can be used to replace sugars and some fats in baked goods. In addition, Danisco says Litesse can be used to produce a high-fibre white bread, which acts as a prebiotic for good digestive health.Product formulations with a reduced glycaemic load are also possible, ...