All British Baker articles in November 2006 – Page 3
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Holland’s Pies
Holland’s Pies (Accrington, Lancashire), pie, pudding and savoury pastry manufacturer, is launching a range of family pies, including old favourites such as, Potato & Meat and Steak & Onion. The deep-filled pies are baked from frozen and are wrapped up in traditional Holland’s shortcrust pastry. Dawn Williams, senior brand manager ...
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Shire Foods
Midlands-based Shire Foods sees major growth areas in savoury pastries and pies. It has recently launched the first of many new hand-held productss under the Pizza Pod brand name.The Pizza Pod is offered frozen unbaked, frozen baked and fresh baked and comes in a hand-held ovenable carrier. It contains 30% ...
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Factory expansion at Ginsters
Ginsters has opened a £3.5m extension to its savouries factory in Cornwall with a promise to boost its purchase of local produce.The company, which has annual sales of £225m, said it already spends about £9m a year on local supplies of beef, swedes, potatoes, onions and cheese and that it ...
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European Process Plant
European Process Plant (EPP) based in Epsom, Surrey, has been installing pie lines for over 35 years. Customers include numerous leading bakeries. The company’s Comas LTF has a production speed of 25 cycles per minute. The Comas LTT is for pies without foils and the Comas LSP is for laminated ...
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IMA Food Equipment
IMA Food Equipment (St Albans, Hertfordshire) represents Kalmeijer of Holland which manufactures the KTM pie and tart machines.The KTM is a development of the KGM biscuit and cookie machine, which has been around for many years.The KTM is suited for small to medium-sized production units and has compact dimensions of ...
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Food Design
The consumer of today is persistently seeking homemade characteristics in their desserts, according to ingredients firm Food Design (Hornbeam Park Avenue, Harrogate). It believes that its toffee crumb and butterscotch pieces will satisfy that demand. By blending the company’s dark butterscotch crisp or toffee crumb into a crumble topping, a ...
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Consumer watch
I like convenient food that is simple, plain and easy to eat, without being too messy.For lunch, I make cheese and ham sarnies from soft, white Warburtons buns that are already cut for you or buy Ginsters Simply Chicken sandwiches on malted brown bread from the shop near university. I ...
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Health focus at conference
Some 150 participants gained an insight into opportunities to optimise consumer health at an international conference hosted in Copenhagen last month by ingredients supplier Danisco.Among the healthy ingredients discussed were plants used by the holistic Indian healing system ayurveda, beneficial probiotic bacteria and prebiotic ingredients.Four of Danisco’s research scientists presented ...
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Commodities tracker
The 2006 International Conference of Dried Grape Producing Countries was held in Monterey, California last month. Representatives from countries, including the USA, Turkey, Greece, Chile, South Africa and Australia, swapped information on harvests, production and marketing at the event.Of particular relevance to bakers is the supply of sultanas and ...
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Thompson named as Inter Link chief
Inter Link has appointed former group finance director Chris Thompson as chief executive.Thompson replaces Paul Griffiths, who left the cake company in October to focus on his charitable quest to restore a monastery in Manchester.Thompson joined Inter Link in 2004 and had been acting chief executive since Griffiths’ departure. The ...
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Pantheon Catering Equipment
Pantheon Catering Equipment (part of Monarch Catering Equipment and Crompton Direct, Bolton, Lancashire) has added a plug-in pie warmer to its new Pantheon range of light to medium-duty back-bar and counter-top snack equipment.The warmer has four adjustable easy-clean shelves and glass sliding doors. Temperature monitoring comes through a thermostatic display. ...
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Good year for Carr’s
The successful integration of two mills and strong sales of speciality flours have helped Cumbria-based miller Carr’s notch up healthy sales and profit increases.For the 52 weeks to 2 September 2006, Carr’s Milling Industries announced that its food division increased its operating profit to £3.3m from the previous year’s total ...
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Brushing up on Brontë
The Café Brontë brand of luxury cookies, indulgent biscuits and traditional shortbread bars was launched at London’s Caffè Culture show in late May and has already secured listings with two out of three of the country’s leading wholesalers. And according to the Livingston firm’s managing director Alan Hardie: "We expect ...
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Briefs
n Consumer confidence in the internet means that 65% of shoppers want to buy their Christmas gifts online this year. A report by Visa reveals that 81% of Britons believe shopping online saves time; 70% think it saves money.n Warburtons’ health and safety officer Derrick Watson is the first person ...
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Subway to spruce up bread offering
Sandwich chain Subway is planning to add new shapes and styles to its bread range "bringing some innovation to the customer".The chain, which now has 780 outlets in the UK, has a team of people working on its bread strategy, said Bryan Griffiths, MD of the European Independent Purchasing Company ...
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Take off the blinkers
At last, there are signs on the horizon of a few brave bakers who have noticed things are hotting up on the high street! Apart from the giants, such as Greggs and Subway, making their presence felt, retail bakers face the added challenge of the in-store concessions, bake-off and any ...
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Europe’s organic bread basket?
A forum to be held in Warsaw next week will highlight Poland’s potential to be a manufacturing base for UK food firms.The British-Polish Agrifoods Forum will comprise a series of seminars for UK and Polish food producers, processors and marketers on Thursday 23 November.Issues to be discussed include food processing, ...
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Bakers should buy, not rent
Small businesses should ditch the landlord and buy their freehold if they want to save money, according to property website [http://www.publicangel.com].It said that many companies could boost their long-term profitability by buying their commercial property instead of renting it.Recent changes in the commercial mortgage market mean many businesses that currently ...
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Bakers feel the retail pinch
In the last month the three biggest retail bakers in the UK - Three Cooks, Lyndale Foods and Greggs - have all hit the headlines. Most recently, Three Cooks has crashed into administration, but before that Greggs complained of disappointing trading. Lyndale has also admitted a major strategic review is ...