All British Baker articles in October 2006 – Page 2
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Home baking gets second wind as shoppers buy premium mixes
Nostalgic consumers are driving a revival in the home baking sector, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.Sales of home baking products, including flour, dried fruit, cake decorations and dough, have risen by 25% over the last five years to £429m this year, and are expected to ...
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Newcastle bakery under review
RHM-owned British Bakeries is nearing the end of a two-week review of production at its Newcastle bakery, which produces Hovis and Mother’s Pride bread.The Westerhope bakery’s 250 staff have been told the company is looking at shifting production to its other bakeries in the south, to reduce supply chain costs. ...
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The Bread Basket Bakery
Lowestoft-based The Bread Basket Bakery uses a rack oven from Tom Chandley (Denton, Manchester).The firm uses the Compacta Rack Oven to bake breads, rolls, pastries, sausage rolls and pies for the local hospital and nearby retail stores. The air-flow system and automatic rotating rack lifter allow even distribution of steam, ...
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Bakers Oven’s winning ways
Greggs’ Bakers Oven division has announced the results of its annual in-house bakery competition.First prize overall went to Richard Haydon, relief baker for Bakers Oven Midlands, who was assessed on 10 products that he baked on a day-to-day basis. Second place went to Paul Norman, a bakery manager at the ...
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Health claims call to bakers
Manufacturers are invited to submit health claims about their products so they can be considered for inclusion in new European laws.The European list of permitted health claims aims to increase consumer protection on health claims made on food.To be eligible, claims must be based on generally accepted science and relate ...
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Bakers Ross Dea and Michael
Costello recently enjoyed a course at the House of Bread in Asten, Austria, after winning the Piero Scacco award (arranged by the Worshipful Company of Bakers).They baked products including yoghurt bread, Nordic fruit bread, pretzels and Danish pastries during the week. Here Dea (centre) and Costello (right) discuss handling ciabatta ...
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A healthy debate? Organic baker Andrew Whitley on plant bread and health
T he milling and baking industry’s responses to my book Bread Matters (British Baker, 6 October) are reminiscent of Nelson’s tactics when he put a telescope to his blind eye and declared, "I see no ships." Much of the evidence I assembled is based on recent scientific research, that shows ...
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International activity
Three German/Austrian bakery companies are expected to be combined to form the third-largest company in the markets, run by the well-known German baker and entrepreneur Heiner Kamps (pictured).The three German/Austrian bakers, Mueller, Anker and Lowenbrot, are expected to be bought by a specially-formed company, IFR Capital.IFR is scheduled to ...
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Starch prices raised 8-10%
National Starch Food Innovation has announced a price increase in Europe on its full range of products. The price of food, pharmaceutical, encapsulation, beverage and texturising starches will increase by 8-10%, effective from 15 November 2006.Dry growing conditions in Europe and subsequent limited availability have dramatically impacted the cost of ...
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Midlands still waiting for new Krispy Kreme retail outlets
Donut retailer Krispy Kreme has yet to deliver on a promise to open a raft of stores in the Midlands as it continues to expand in the UK.It had hoped to have a cluster of stores in the Midlands before venturing up to Manchester this year, and then onto Scotland ...
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Briefs
n Workers of Dorset Bakery of Hybris Business Park, Crossways, spent three days campaigning against a car-spraying workshop they claim is contaminating products and making them ill. Staff stopped working when they suspected fumes from the neighbouring Colortec workshop were seeping through and into the bakery’s products. The employees demonstrated ...
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viewpoint
The papers delivered at this autumn’s British Society of Baking Conference were excellent. I think every delegate left feeling they knew more about the potential of several major categories including premium cakes, thanks to George Thomopoulos of Rich Products, organic and wholegrain, revealed by Huw Edwards of Asda, and ...
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Reporting in
In 2005 the National Federation of Bakery Students Society/Institute of British Bakers (NFBSS/IBB) Alliance staged its 75th Conference.The Alliance has been successful in supporting college-based bakery students, organising competitions, weekend schools and conferences since the 1920s. However, the bakery training landscape has fundamentally changed with the reduction in college-based training. ...
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Planning nightmare
A local council would cut its right hand off to attract inward investment from a company that employed as many people as Brace’s Bakery - nearly 400, with a successful track record. It would put in all the roads and services necessary, especially if the company had ...
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McDougalls
McDougalls (Addlestone, Surrey) has reduced the fat content in its High Yield Pastry Mix and Shortcrust Pastry Mix by 22% as part of its ’Healthier Promise’ campaign.The mixes can be used to create a range of snacks for the bakery market, including cheesy chicken and leek pasties, and steak and ...
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Slice of life
Pie company Peter Hunt’s has recently made a multi-million-pound investment in its bakery at Kearsley, near Bolton, while rolling out a novel range of lattice-toped slices, which it believes are the first of their kind to be manufactured in the UK for national distribution.In terms of trying new ranges at ...
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König
Austrian-based company König has launched a range of concept dough-laminating and sheeting equipment, distributed in the UK by epp (Epsom, Surrey).The firm’s new company, König Laminiertechnik GmbH, is set to manufacture and market the equipment from a purpose-built factory with state-of-the-art demonstration facilities.The TwinSat is designed to minimise mechanical stressing ...
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Macphie’s Gillespie retires on a high
Corporate affairs director John Gillespie is retiring from food ingredients manufacturer Macphie after 37 years.He started in the industry 50 years ago as an apprentice with flour miller J&R Snodgrass in Glasgow. He joined Macphie as a sales representative in 1969 and in 1986 was appointed to the board as ...
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Positive energy
The government-funded Carbon Trust, which helps companies reduce energy costs, says it costs bakeries nearly £100m a year. Smaller craft and in-store bakeries account for almost 40% of that. When gas prices plummeted earlier this month it was big news for bakers. The average price of natural gas in September ...
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Contamination hunt continues
Allied Bakeries has almost ruled out sabotage on its production line after glass and needles were found in Kingsmill loaves.Three contaminated loaves have been reported in the last fortnight, although the objects were discovered inside the packaging rather than the bread itself.Allied has DNA-tested the 300 staff at its Orpington ...
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