All British Baker articles in November 2007
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For supermarkets, short and efficient supply chains must be the ultimate ’gold standard’ to aim for. This week, Sainsbury’s announced a brand new initiative on bakery, sourcing wheat from a UK farmers’ co-operative (pg 4). It is an admirable way of supporting British farmers and lowering the carbon footprint, ...
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UCB’s United Nations
Just over a year after a major fire at its Bathgate facility at the end of October last year, Scottish firm United Central Bakeries (UCB) has ambitious plans.Rather than give up on the business or aim simply to rebuild, the management team decided on restructuring its production operations, in a ...
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A Week in the life of...
Monday After a relaxing weekend thinking about anything and everything but pasties, it’s time for the usual 7.30am start. I’m first into the kitchen at work, so I switch everything on and fire up the ovens, then put the kettle on, ready for the team at 8am. ...
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Ingredients watch
Antioxidant-rich chocolate, which can be used in bakery applications, helps heart health, according to new research from Japan.The report from Chiba University suggests that consuming dark chocolate containing flavonoids (associated with antioxidants) on a regular basis improves coronary blood flow, and so reduces the risk of fatty build-up in ...
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Lunchtime habits
More than two-thirds of office workers have sandwiches for lunch, according to new research.In a survey, carried out by Ipsos Mori for BaxterStorey, researchers found that 92% of office workers eat lunch, 78% are regular snackers, and of these, 20% snack on crisps while 27% ...
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Whole grains help pancreas
Eating two portions of whole grains a day could almost halve the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, says new research.A study of more than 2,000 men and women, 532 of whom had pancreatic cancer, revealed those who ate at least two helpings of whole grains a day - the equivalent ...
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Gingerbread house
Grasmere Gingerbread is made using a 150-year-old secret recipe so secret, that it is locked away in the National Westminster Bank in nearby Ambleside. "My husband and father know it and that’s it. I don’t even know it," says Joanne Wilson of Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread. "My son who ...
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French lesson
Last month’s preliminary Competition Commission (CC) report into the supply of groceries in the UK contained serious flaws and omissions, which reflect an ignorance of a range of hidden elements affecting trading in town and city centres. It even encouraged the development of more edge-of and out-of-town stores in areas ...
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Greencore profits hit by difficult summer trading
Convenience foods giant Greencore has become the latest supplier to complain that unseasonal summer weather and raw material cost inflation had hit its profits in 2007.Greencore, which claims to be Europe’s largest sandwich manufacturer, making more than 200 million sandwiches a year, said that, in common with the rest ...
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CSR in the spotlight
The Carbon Trust, a private company set up by government, has invited trade organisations to apply for up to £140,000-worth of funding on carbon reduction projects.To apply for the funding, applicants are required to produce a detailed plan, outlining how their initiative will deliver demonstrable carbon dioxide emissions savings, by ...
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McVitie’s changes fig roll packs
Biscuit company McVitie’s says it will be launching new-look fig rolls on the Irish market soon, after packaging has been changed following a recent court case (British Baker, 12 October, pg 12).Paul Parkins, United Biscuits’ director, Ireland, said it is currently amending the packaging of its fig rolls to ...
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Tim Smith inherits FSA chair
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has appointed a new chief executive. Tim Smith is the former head of UK dairy company, Arla Foods UK. He will take up his new post next March.Dame Deirdre Hutton, chair of the FSA, said: "Tim has close links to both the retail and ...
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Briefs
n Bakery companies Walkers Shortbread and Honeytop Speciality Foods have been short-listed for the Food Exporter of the Year award and Small to Medium Business Food Exporter of the Year award, respectively, in the Food from Britain Awards 2007.Now in their 11th year, the Food from Britain ...
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Show to go biennial
French bakery exhibition Europain is set to become a more frequent event, switching from every three years to every two, show organisers said at the launch of the 2008 exhibition.Around 600 exhibitors are expected at the now biennial five-day event, to be held at Parc des Expositions de ...
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Sainsbury’s strikes flour deal for in-store bakery supply
Sainsbury’s says it has struck a unique deal to supply its 360 in-store bakeries with traceable British flour, as part of an initiative to become what it calls "the best baker in town".Sainsbury’s will source some 55,000 tons of wheat annually, from a farmer-owned cooperative called Camgrain, in a ...
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Dispute over bakery facing liquidation
Liquidators were called in to London wholesale bakery DM Holdings (UK) Ltd, trading as European Bakeries (UK), on 22 November, following a debacle over rent (British Baker, 23 November, pg 5).The bakery has now closed and liquidators Kevin Murphy and Mike Kernick from Chantrey Vellacott have ...
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Czech Republic bakery sets up robotised facility
Czech bakery company Penam has opened the first robotised bakery in the Czech Republic, near Prague.The industrial bakery company has spent E17.8 million (£12.7m) on building the new site, which has created 120 jobs.The group has also invested in one of the largest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging ...
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The Forum of Private Business is urging consumers to avoid large shopping
centres this Christmas and, instead, buy their freshly baked products from small independent bakeries.With less than a month to go before 25 December, shops across the UK are gearing up for the Christmas rush, but so are the larger retailers’ marketing machines. The FPB believes that, for a truly personal ...
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Flawed argument
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is currently conducting a public consultation on new guidance on food-labelling terms, such as ’fresh’, ’pure’, ’premium’ and ’quality’. But many of the proposed guidelines are too vague to clarify any ambiguities.The proposed changes will do little to stop unscrupulous use of such words - ...
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Food & Drink Expo adjoins BIE
Food & Drink Expo 2008, an exhibition for sourcing food and drink products and services from around the world, will run alongside Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE) at the Birmingham NEC from April 6-9 next year.Organic produce will be a key feature and the Soil Association will sponsor an ...