All British Baker articles in November 2006 – Page 4
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Reporting in Kirk Hunter, chief executive, Scottish Association of Master Bakers
I feel less than sunny at the news of the launch this week in Scotland of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) ’scores on the doors’ pilots.The FSA’s plan is to give consumers information at the point of purchase about shops’ hygiene standards, based on their last food inspection report. This ...
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Kluman & Balter
Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire) offers pie fillings ranging from apricot, black cherry, blackcurrant, fruits of the forest, lemon, and raspberry through to red cherry, strawberry and Bramley apple. Exotic fillings on offer include mango, rum and raisin, passion fruit and tropical. And, if a really fruity pie is ...
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Amano café chain to expand with a focus on bakery
The theatre of baking is at the heart of the Amano café concept, which is to be rolled out across London and ultimately nationwide.Amano already has two outlets in London and has £2m of funding to launch a further four cafés in the capital in the next year.Operations director Ed ...
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Need some sound career advice? Just ask Dunkan
Dunkan the gingerbread man has been launched to help people looking for careers in food and drink manufacturing get information on jobs and training.The animated character appears on the website of the food and drink sector skills council Improve - [http://www.improveltd.co.uk] - and will answer questions about job opportunities and ...
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FooGo moves into retail with plans for 40 sandwich bars
Sandwich supplier FooGo has revealed plans for a chain of 40 eat-in sandwich bars.The first of the sandwich and café bars was opened in Lincoln in October. The company will target other historic cathedral and market towns as the roll-out gets under way, it said.The new eat-in or takeaway bars ...
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Heat on pies
The hot, simmering months of June and July, coupled with rising rents and business rates, have taken their toll on pie-makers in the East Midlands. For some, it was good news and for others, bad.One business - The Pie Company, based in Leicester city centre - was forced to close, ...
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CHris PARR TRIBUTE
Warburtons’ Chris Parr died suddenly on Monday, 18 September.Aged 57, he was technical director at Warburtons, and was respected throughout the baking and milling industries.He died after developing an infection following surgery. He had been suffering from an illness over the past few months, but was expected to return to ...
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Dorothy Biscuits
These tasty orange biscuits come from a collection of 215 recipes compiled by a professional baker, Fredrick Vine, in his book Biscuits for Bakers: Easy to Make and Profitable to Sell, which was published in 1896. He recommended selling these biscuits at 1 shilling a pound. In today’s terms that’s ...
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Baking in a war zone
In 2001, following September 11, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members paved the way for the US-led bombing campaign launched in Afghanistan, marking the beginning of the "war on terror".This was the context into which Kevin Barke, owner of Barke Craft Bakery in ...
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viewpoint
Flour prices seem set to rise - again! A formal announcement is due in the next few weeks but British Baker has gained advance knowledge that another price increase is imminent (pg 4).Before you feel like shouting "unjustified", most bakers I have spoken to say the corresponding bread price rises ...
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Pack it up!
Health and indulgence are two buzzwords that have peppered many a bakery marketing director’s PowerPoint presentation over the past year. But while the indulgent cakes sector continues to show great gains, healthy cake sales are somewhat stagnant.Despite this slowdown, Anthony Alan Foods has chalked up over half of all low-fat ...
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Marco weighs in
When bagel producer Maple Leaf Bakeries wanted a weighing and traceability system for its expanded plant near Rotherham, it chose the Trac-IT MES system from Marco Weighing.Maple Leaf has a capacity of over 60,000 fresh and frozen bagels an hour, making it Europe’s largest producer of bagels, according to the ...
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Macphie
Macphie is helping bakers during the festive season with a range of convenient, ready-to-use desserts and sweet sauces. The desserts include Macphie Crème Caramel, Macphie Panna Cotta and Macphie Crème Brûlée. The desserts are tolerant to alcohol making them suitable for Christmas products.Macphie’s sweet sauce line includes Brandy, the ...
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Ingredients watch
"Provenance and traceability are really important at the moment. Consumers are becoming more interested in the story behind their food and where it actually comes from.As a result, we are seeing increasing references to the origins of key ingredients on food packaging or menus.This is particularly noticeable where premium ...
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Herma
The new compact Herma 400 Slim Line label applicator allows new and existing rotary machines to be easily converted to run self-adhesive labels.The new 400 label applicator has been developed as a result of market influences and manufactured by HERMA (Haverhill, Suffolk), a specialist in self-adhesive technology.Such labels are being ...
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Kitchen Range Foods
Kitchen Range Foods (Peterborough) is extending its range of Cadbury chocolate donuts with the launch of an individually wrapped Cadbury Milk Chocolate donut - a single ring donut covered in smooth Cadbury milk chocolate and sprinkled with chunky chocolate pieces.The firm hopes the donut will encourage impulse buys. "It will ...
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RTS Flexible Systems
RTS Flexible Systems (Irlam, Manchester) a provider of integrated robotic and automation systems for the food industry, has developed a solution for picking and packing food products into variety packs.The system can also be adapted to cope with changes in pack configuration due to the introduction of new flavours or ...
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Flavour to taste
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients’ Centre of Excellence in Roosendaal, Holland, claims to be able to create any flavour, bringing 150 years of experience to the table. Well-trained panel members, selected for their sense of taste and smell, are crucial to the flavours business. The sensory labs, in which they ...
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Northen Foods signs skills deal
Northern Foods has signed a multi-union National Learning Agreement.It has teamed up with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, the Transport & General Workers Union and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers to give employees access to a wide range of courses from numeracy and literacy ...
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Dawn Foods
Dawn Foods’ Adore brand offers four lines of individually wrapped premium muffins, brownies, indulgent cakes and American cookies, available in a variety of flavours.The brand has been developed to offer a premium packaged product to suit the foodservice industry and comes in a range of flavours, including blueberry and redcurrant ...