All British Baker articles in November 2008 – Page 3
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New guidance for country of origin labelling
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published revised guidance for country of origin labelling. It has been designed to benefit consumers and to further the FSA’s commitment to improve food labelling and to encourage consistency. The guidance will apply to manufacturers, producers, retailers and caterers with the objective of putting ...
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Award-winning Welsh Cake sales soar
Demand for Welsh Cakes at The Village Bakery, near Wrexham, has soared after they were named Reserve Champion at the True Taste of Wales Awards, within the category for large producers for baked and confectionary products. Now, up to 340,000 Welsh Cakes are being produced a week at the bakery’s ...
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Irwin’s strike deal with Asda
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s has achieved a 300-store Asda distribution deal for its Irish Batch range. The deal worth £250,000 annually, will see Irwin’s Irish Batch available in Britain for the first time, from this winter. The recipe was created over 40 years ago and is marketed in Northern Ireland ...
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NewsImproving loaf quality in high output plant bakeries
Synopsis: Baker Perkins has responded to the growing need for plant bakers to enhance quality, with innovative developments in mixing, dividing and moulding equipment. These concentrate on improved mixing and gentle dough handling, identified as essential in raising and maintaining product standards, without compromising economy of production. Download ...
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Hovis’ performance boosts Premier’s sales
Premier Foods’ interim management statement has revealed sales of Hovis are up 11% for the four months to October. According to the company, consumer response to the relaunch of its Hovis brand has been positive, and market share in October has improved, “despite intense promotional activity by some of our competitors”.
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== Premier’s debt talks ==Hovis owner Premier Foods has confirmed reports in the national press that it has hired advisors to help push through a speedy reduction in its debt burden. The company’s principal bankers - Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland - have appointed accountancy firm Deloitte to ...
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== Charity at BIA ==British Baker can announce that the total amount raised at the Baking Industry Awards for the Bakers Benevolent Society is £5,577.50.== BBS tea ==The annual Bakers’ Benevolent Society Afternoon Tea for the residents of Bakers’ Villas in Epping, will take place on Sunday 23 November, in ...
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== Bakery rise forecast ==A new report from Datamonitor has predicted that the UK bakery and cereals market will grow by 1.7% by 2010, to reach £8.15bn. Bread & rolls was the biggest category in 2007, it reported, at 37.4% of the market, followed by: cookies/sweet biscuits, 19.1%; breakfast cereals, ...
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== Finsbury increase ==Finsbury Food Group has released its Annual Report 2008. It states the first 10 weeks of the year to June 2008, have seen its upward sales trend continuing. Like-for-like sales have grown 13% and adjusted profit before tax increased by 68% to £7.7m, compared to £4.6m in ...
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Seasonal seller
Although available all year round in frozen or dried form, fresh cranberries are in season now. Native to North America, they are the fruit of low-growing, creeping shrubs that grow in acidic bogs. When the fruit turns red in early October, the beds are flooded and a harvester removes the ...
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Reporting in
== Gordon Polson ==Director, The Federation of BakersThis year has certainly been eventful so far for plant bakers. We still do not know the full picture following the harvest. Although the UK wheat crop produced a healthy amount, the bulk of the wheat seems to be low-grade. Without adequate amounts ...
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The Princi principle
A long-time destination for anything from gay bondage wear to, well, gay bondage, pockmarked with seedy snaking stairways and haunted by trench-coated gents shuffling into ribbon-stripped doorways, Soho is the scene of many a piquant fancy. Not least of these is Alan Yau’s altogether more salubrious fetish: opening eating holes.The ...
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Mouthing off
"If you think Islington is all air-kissing, cocaine-snorting, gym-going, Guardian-reading, latté-slurping, organic, free-range, GM-free munching fashionistas, think again. It’s worse than that - much, much worse than that"- a new report titled ’Invisible Islington: The Dirty Secret of Café Society’, by poverty charity Cripplegate Foundation, lifts the ...
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Lincat makes rapid toast
Lincat has launched a new conveyor toaster.The CT1 has adjustable temperature and conveyor speed and can produce up to 340 slices of toast per hour.Both upper and lower elements are adjustable in order to control browning and it features a one-sided toasting function which can be used for products ...
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Sandwich guru
We have recently been developing a range of ’open sandwiches’ for a chain of excellent gastro-pubs we supply, writes The SoHo Sandwich Company’s Adam Gilbert.Technically these are not really sandwiches. Layered and stacked on a crisp bread pedestal, they’re more closely related to the canapé. But whereas canapés call for ...
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Fresh grounds for growth
At the European Coffee Symposium held in London recently, Paul Ettinger, head of international food and beverages at Caffè Nero, said Britain’s coffee shop sector needs to look at new ways of minimising the impact of the recession, including attracting more evening trade, selling more iced drinks and, possibly, ...
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Fine for ’light’ loaves
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has been fined £1,500 for selling underweight bread, after launching a 600g loaf ahead of next year’s EU directive that lifts historical UK bread weights.The underweight loaves were found during a routine weight check by a Trading Standards officer in a supermarket in April. Thirty-eight ...
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Firefly finds a way to Recharge
Firefly Tonics has launched its new drink ’Recharge’. Available in Pomegranate & Echinacea and Rosehip & Ginseng flavours, it contains fruit juices (white grape, pomegranate, plum, blood orange, rosehip), with botanical extracts, including kola nut, elderflower and chilli. The drink contains no added sugar or artificial ingredients and has been ...
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Festive fir
Easy-to-make edible breads over seasonal periods are a sure-fire winner. I demonstrated this technique at the Bakers’ Fair and everyone was amazed at how simple, but effective these breads were.Decorative breads should have centre stage in bakery window displays. They are fantastic added-value, considering the dough could ...
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Fresh from the farm
We bake our cakes with eggs fresh from the farm, which gives them a really good colour," says Liz Hedges of Bryngwenyn Farm, who hand-collects eggs from her brood of hens daily. "We believe in proper free-range chickens, which can make it a bit harder to locate the eggs!" she ...