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Asda to pilot discount bakery
ASDA is creating a largely own-brand bakery range for a new model “discount convenience store”, to be trialled in Northampton in spring 2006.Director of bakery Huw Edwards said the bakery range for the store will be pre-packed. There will be no in-store bakery. But details are to be finalised, he ...
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Warburtons backs filled rolls
Warburtons will start a new TV advertising campaign for its All in One Riddlers filled rolls in the new year.The plant baker’s advertising campaign will commence in January, said category manager Claire Simpson. She told British Baker: “We will be on TV throughout 2006, starting with a product-specific All in ...
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NewsBakers read up on clean-label
“If the customer looks at the ingredients declaration and it reads like War and Peace, then it’s a worry,” warns Simon Solway, sales and marketing director at Unifine Food and Bake Ingredients. Speaking at the company’s Ingredients in Action workshop last month, he adds that this has prompted surging demand ...
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Sainsbury’s bakery range
Sainsbury’s carries just under 1,000 bakery lines in an average store, and has a total range of around 1,500, including regional lines. The figure 6,000 was given at our recent Baking Industry Summit, following a researcher error at Sainsbury’s, (British Baker, December 2, pg 5). Sainsbury’s total bakery sales ...
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Economy bread slumps as grains and seeds see surge
Economy bread sales declined by a dramatic 22.7% over the 12 months to July 2005, and now account for less than 2% of bread sales by value, says the new Warburtons Bakery Review 2005.The report, which is complied from AC Nielsen Scantrak data, suggests economy bread sales were worth £22.34 ...
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In Brief
- Leicester-based Mayur Foods has achieved British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard Grade A under the new BRC accreditation structure. Mayur Foods, which supplies products including filled naans and chapattis, previously had BRC Higher certification. - SAINSBURY’S Taste the Difference Christmas pudding, laced with cognac, forced Harrods Supreme pudding into ...
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Griffin’s to close as building is sold
Griffin’s Bakery, one of the oldest bakeries in the west of Ireland, looks set to close when the building it occupies in the centre of Galway is sold early next year, writes Hugh Oram. The bakery occupies a prime high street location and a guide price of E10 million has ...
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Delice ramps up Christmas offer
Delice de France (Southall, Middlesex) has launched several new festive products.Iced Fruit Cake Slice is topped with white icing. Individually wrapped, this Christmas cake is aimed at hotels, coffee shops, sandwich bars and buffets.Also new this season is Mini Butter Shortbread Stars with Chocolate Chips – a rich all-butter shortbread, ...
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Harvestime sale draws close
Administrators are considering a number of offers for Harvestime (2005), after setting a deadline for bids of today (Friday, December 16).Speaking as British Baker went to press, joint administrator John Kelly of Begbies Traynor said he still expects a couple more offers and hopes to get a deal finalised by ...
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Festive cookie comeback
Rich Products (Hartlebury, Worcs) is re-launching its award winning festive cookie for Christmas 2005. Self-service wholesalers Makro will again stock Rich’s white chocolate and cranberry cookies in stores nationwide throughout the festive period.Initially developed for Makro for Christmas last year, the cookie went on to win the silver award in ...
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Whiter than white decorations
British Sugar’s (Peterborough) Icecraft is a new icing sugar designed for making smoother, whiter sugarpaste for cake decoration.A spokesman says: “Icecraft is superior to other sugarpaste icing sugar on the market because it has been specially milled to give an optimised particle size. Our customers told us they wanted ...
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Exceedingly good performance for Mr Kipling mince pies
RHM division Manor Bake-ries said “Christmas has come early” for its troubled Mr Kipling brand this year, with record sales of Mr Kipling mince pies.To date, sales have grown 9% on the previous year and it is anticipated that over 50 million Mr Kipling mince pies will be sold by ...
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Restructure gives Geary’s growth platform
Leicester-based Geary’s Bakeries blamed rising fuel costs, as it made 18 redundancies last week, and restructured to boost profitability.Joint MD Tony Marriott said rising fuel costs had a major impact on Geary’s supply costs to certain sectors of its market. It was no longer cost-effective to maintain small deliveries to ...
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‘Homemade’ mince pies
RHM Foodservice (Reading, Berks) says its McDougalls High Yield Pastry Mix and Robertson’s Mincemeat give mince pies a homemade taste.The pastry mix is blended with cold water using a beater on a slow setting until the dough is formed. It should then be left to rest in a cool place ...
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Thomas scoops mince pie vote
Yorkshire family firm Thomas the Baker claims to have captured the secret of the perfect mince pie.In a recent independent taste test on mince pies, Thomas’s were voted the best in competition against food giants Asda, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco. “This is the 10th time our ...
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NEWS REVIEW OF THE YEAR
JanuaryWarburtons announced a £2.5m TV ad campaign highlighting the “family values of the Warburtons brand”, and plans to catch up on expansion in 2005. MD Brett Warburton told British Baker growth had been restrained in 2004 after the arson attack at Warburtons’ Wednesbury plant in January 2004. Warburtons later bought ...
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NEWS REVIEW OF THE YEAR
Cake supplier Inter Link said it had achieved its goal of becoming the UK’s number two cake supplier, with the £12.25m purchase of the Yorkshire Cottage Bakeries Group. The deal was the Blackburn-based firm’s ninth and largest acquisition and will put annualised turnover at approximately £125m a year, chief executive ...
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NEWS REVIEW OF THE YEAR
MarchRHM group revealed a new “simplified” company structure with three business units in place of the previous four. The new divisions were bread bakeries, cakes and customer partnerships, and culinary brands. Buying was centralised across the group. Rank Hovis announced it was to close its Felixstowe Docks mill, spreading production ...
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NEWS REVIEW OF THE YEAR
AprilRHM finalised details of the sale of its Golden West burger bun subsidiary as separate logistics and bakery businesses. Chicago-based East Balt Bakeries bought the bakery business. Golden West had been under review since October 2004. Cake and bread company Finsbury Food Group’s CEO Dave Brooks announced it had a ...
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MAYThe National Association of Master Bakers (NA) swore in its 111th president, Colin Fulcher, at its annual conference in Harrogate. He received his chain of office from outgoing president Tony Phillips. New president-elect Shirley Harrison was also installed as the NA’s first lady president elect. Waitrose MD Steven Eson announced ...