All British Baker articles in November 2010 – Page 5
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Cake firm hits retailYorkshire-based The Tiny Cake Company has announced it has targeted the retail sector for the first time and will be supplying The Corbridge Larder, Northumberland and The Yorkshire Larder, York with its hand-crafted mini Christmas cakes. Previously selling its goods at food fairs and via its website, ...
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New head of SAHelen Browning has been appointed director of The Soil Association, and will take up her post in early spring. Patrick Holden stepped down in September following 15 years in the role.Maple Leaf resultsThird-quarter sales in Maple Leaf’s Bakery Products Group declined 3% to $411.1m (£257m), compared to ...
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UB deal in doubtMedia reports suggest that the sale of United Biscuits (UB) is in doubt after talks with potential buyer, Bright Food Group, fell through. The Shanghai-based company had visited UB’s British factories last month after UB’s private equity owners, Blackstone Group and PAI Partners of France, entered exclusive ...
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Swings and roundabouts
Did you know that the UK is the world’s biggest importer of Californian raisins? We can’t get enough of them - quite literally now that world supplies are being squeezed. So with prices going up, it’s a big deal for bakers. "We’re coming to a very tight time right now ...
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Puff up your pastry skills
With all the emphasis we place on good bread-making in bakeries, and on getting strong morning sales in the store, we can sometimes assume that our customers’ entire concern is finding something for breakfast and lunch when they walk into a baker’s shop. So we emphasise morning goods and loaves, ...
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Reporting in Where’s the passion?
Paul CatterallBakery technology manager, Campden BRIWell the new harvest is in, so it is that time of the year when everything that goes wrong in the bakery can be blamed on the ’new crop’ flour! Millers have a difficult job; they have to produce a consistent product from an infinitely ...
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Mouthing off
"I noticed a downturn in baking some years ago and came up with the idea of a Christmas cake packet of ingredients. People were having to buy ingredients and only needed a tablespoon for example, so they were wasting a lot of what they bought. The cake I started to ...
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Ideas from IBIE
Do the bake and vac and put the freshness backit’s not often that a technology comes along that rewrites the rules of baking. Well, at least a technology that shouldn’t get people’s knickers in a twist for bastardising bread. So here it is: the world’s first glimpse of vacuum baking, ...
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Wheat prices stay high
Wheat prices show no sign of easing, with the wheat futures market hitting its highest level since April 2008, due to weather concerns in key growing countries and strong demand for UK wheat. Contracts on the LIFFE wheat futures market closed at £170.75/tonne on 28 October, while the delivered price ...
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Halloween horrors
Ok, the UK’s first-ever 18+ pop-up cake shop has come and gone and the ’good taste’ bar has been officially set to a backbreaking limbo low. Opened for the Halloween weekend only, Eat Your Heart Out was the first bakery shop in recent memory to operate a one-in, one-out door ...
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Focus on promotion
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic business firm, specialising in the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectorsHow easy is it for bakery retailers to introduce promotional activities and develop an annual promotional plan?Our colleagues at him! confirmed that 60% of your customers actively look for sales promotions ...
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Electrolux wins recognition for fast grill
Electrolux Professional’s HSG Panini Grill has won a gold award at the first Lunch! 2010 Innovation Challenge, which identifies cutting-edge innovations in the food-to-go sector.The grill is up to six times faster than a standard sandwich grill, enabling caterers to sell a sandwich that stays "warm-to-the-last-bite" in less than a ...
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Edible nut pricing
Almonds: Prices on almonds have continued to firm since the last report and this despite the Californian new crop being as big as it is. Although there remain some doubts as to whether the 1.65bn lb objective estimate could be correct, the response to this number, of weaker prices ...
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Easy-Pie.com (a subsidiary of Easy-Dough.com)
Alan Stuart is MD of Stuarts of Buckhaven and president of Scottish BakersI’ve been studying the budget airlines and have come up with the solution for all my pie problems. I am launching Easy-Pie.com, which will revolutionise the UK pie industry.Inspired by Simple Simon, my mission statement will be ’One ...
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No flakes for Délifrance
Délifrance UK claims to have launched ’flake-free’ pastry slices, to making snacking easier for on-the-go consumers. Available in cheese & tomato, spinach & ricotta and smoked bacon & cheese varieties, the slices are ready to bake from frozen in 30 minutes. They come in packs of 70 and can be ...
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Peter’s cuts a new slice
Peter’s Premier ’All Day Breakfast’ slice is a new product that aims to tempt on-the-go consumers.The full English breakfast in a slice can be served hot or cold, and fuses breakfast ingredients together in pastry: bacon, egg, sausage, beans and brown sauce (rsp: £1.39).James Osgood, marketing director for Peter’s Foods, ...
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Pies curry Scots’ favour
Two of Scotland’s favourite snacks, the curry and the pie, have come together in a new product. Created by a partnership between Mister Singh’s India restaurant, McGhee’s Bakery and Pars Foods, the pastry pie contains an authentic curry recipe, chicken ambala from India’s Punjab region.The Mister Singh’s Curry Pie will ...
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CSM nibbles at market
The Readi-Bake range of frozen Petits Crolines is designed to produce fresh-tasting, quality nibbles for buffets.From CSM UK, the line comes in boxes containing three different varieties of traditional flavours: mushroom & ham, salmon, and cheese; mushroom, cheese & ham and chicken curry; and Mediterranean vegetables, Greek-style cheese and stilton ...
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Click here for local food
Islington in London is home to dozens of independent food businesses with a loyal following among the area’s residents. Butchers, delicatessens and cheesemongers thrive there and Ottolenghi, the bakery and restaurant, has its flagship store in Islington making and selling patisserie, including its best-sellers, passion fruit meringue tart and lemon ...
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Report Ethical and dark drive chocolates, finds Mintel
Dark and ethical chocolate products are gaining in popularity as total chocolate sales in the UK continue to rise despite the tough economy.According to Mintel, UK sales of chocolate increased by 9.2% between 2007 and 2009 to reach an estimated £3.6bn and sales are projected to grow to £4.1bn by ...