All British Baker articles in November 2011 – Page 2
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Store closures and jobs axed at Solihull bakery chain
A West Midlands-based high street bakery chain has gone into administration, with eight outlets closed and 42 jobs made redundant.
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Graduates and apprentices needed for food industry
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has pledged to attract 137,000 new recruits to the food and drinks industry by 2017.
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Video: FDF pledges to recruit young talent
The Food and Drink Federation’s Attracting Talent to Support Growth event highlighted the importance of nurturing young talent, with the need for 137,000 new recruits to join the UK food industry by 2017.
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Video: FDF pledges to recruit young talent
The Food and Drink Federation’s Attracting Talent to Support Growth event highlighted the importance of nurturing young talent, with the need for 137,000 new recruits to join the UK food industry by 2017.
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NewsBurton’s Foods rebrands for success
One of the UK’s largest biscuit manufacturers has changed its trading name and branding to further strengthen its position within the market.
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Irish bread-like products face price increase
Irish bakers could suffer as a result of a move by Revenue to significantly hike up the price of bagels, croissants and garlic bread.
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Blaze at Manchester bread factory
A Warburtons factory caught on fire last Thursday night, which took almost four hours to extinguish.
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New roles at Brace’s bakery
Welsh bakery firm Brace’s has created 26 additional jobs after securing new business.
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Video: Krispy Kreme 2012 expansion plans
Krispy Kreme’s hotlight store in Bluewater Shopping Centre has generated around £9m worth of sales since starting in 2004.
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Video: Kripsy Kreme 2012 expansion plans
Krispy Kreme’s hotlight store in Bluewater Shopping Centre has generated around £9m worth of sales since starting in 2004.
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Pukka Pies takes on new promotions
Pukka Pies has launched two new initiatives to entice both new and loyal customers.The company, based in Leicestershire, will be giving away 20 million points in a new loyalty scheme, which will require customers to input a unique code found on product packaging into its website. Customers can then redeem ...
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Plum pudding firm opens third store
A traditional North Yorkshire food, wine and hamper company is opening the doors of its third store in time for the Christmas season.Lewis & Cooper’s new food hall outlet, based in Harrogate, will sell the business’ wide selection of food and drink products, including its handmade multi-award-winning plum puddings, sweet ...
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High Street faces two years of pain
The figures might show an increase in retail sales - but experts have predicted another two years of misery on the High Street.
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Irwin’s scoops Sainsbury’s deal
Irwin’s Bakery in Portadown has announced a deal to supply Sainsbury’s in Northern Ireland with its pancakes and soda farls, as part of the retailer’s new core range of ’By Sainsbury’s’ own-label products.The contract, worth over £250,000 a year to the Northern Irish bakery, will see its products sold in ...
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Correction: Greggs
In the 18 November issue of British Baker there is an error in our feature on Greggs’ chief executive Ken McMeikan. The last line of the story should read, “greater emphasis on the bakery feel rather than the food-to-go or the coffee shop.” British Baker apologises for this mistake.
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VITAL FOR BUSINESS
Absenteeism can be a difficult issue to manage, particularly if you suspect that an employee is lying about its cause. How can a simple change to your absence recording systems make your life and disciplinary action more straight forward?Managing absencesEmployee absence can take many forms; staff may want leave because ...
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Greggs develops initiative for local bakery format
Greggs is to launch a new format store, its take on a local baker, British Baker can reveal. The development will be the retailer’s second new concept store in as many months and will become the third store format for Greggs, concentrating on the firm’s bakery heritage. The move ...
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Selfridges opens food hall doors to St John Bakery
St John Bakery officially opened a new bakery in Selfridges Food Hall in London this week (17 November). It will offer the same range of products that can be found in the company’s St John Restaurants, including white and brown sourdough loaves, a raisin loaf, mini Eccles cakes and a ...
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Scottish baker passes away
Former president of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers (now Scottish Bakers) Joe McDonald passed away on 7 November, aged 78. McDonald was born in Glasgow and joined the bakery trade at the age of 15, spending a total of 63 years in the industry. He started his own ...
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Asda launches new iPhone app
Supermarket retailer Asda has developed a new transactional mobile phone app, allowing customers to buy groceries online and price check the cost of their shopping using their iPhones.