All British Baker articles in October 2007 – Page 3
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Understanding is all
Knowledge is power was the message from Tesco’s in-store bakery category manager at the autumn British Society of Baking (BSB) conference. Neil Franklin, who probably has more of both these commodities at his fingertips than many others in the baking industry, said suppliers are not employing supermarket sales data enough.Franklin, ...
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Understanding is all
Knowledge is power was the message from Tesco’s in-store bakery category manager at the autumn British Society of Baking (BSB) conference. Neil Franklin, who probably has more of both these commodities at his fingertips than many others in the baking industry, said suppliers are not employing supermarket sales data enough.Franklin, ...
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The Carbon Trust adds loan boost
New research by The Carbon Trust has revealed that lack of time and expertise to measure and reduce their carbon emissions is preventing the UK’s small and medium businesses from achieving business energy savings.While 63% of SME senior managers and directors surveyed realised they could reduce their carbon emissions through ...
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The Carbon Trust adds loan boost
New research by The Carbon Trust has revealed that lack of time and expertise to measure and reduce their carbon emissions is preventing the UK’s small and medium businesses from achieving business energy savings.While 63% of SME senior managers and directors surveyed realised they could reduce their carbon emissions through ...
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Aga sells foodservice and bakery arm for £260m
Equipment company Aga last week agreed a £260m sale of its foodservice and bakery equipment division to Italian manufacturer Ali SpA.The division, which includes Mono Equipment, Miller’s Vanguard, Williams Refrigeration, Falcon Foodservice and AFE Serviceline in the UK, is set to run as before with no changes to management structure.Aga’s ...
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Aga sells foodservice and bakery arm for £260m
Equipment company Aga last week agreed a £260m sale of its foodservice and bakery equipment division to Italian manufacturer Ali SpA.The division, which includes Mono Equipment, Miller’s Vanguard, Williams Refrigeration, Falcon Foodservice and AFE Serviceline in the UK, is set to run as before with no changes to management structure.Aga’s ...
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UK millers’ concern over wheat supplies
Millers in the UK are waiting nervously for the Australian wheat harvest to come in later this autumn, with high global wheat prices and volatility expected to continue.The Australian crop is still in the ground and harvesting is not due to complete until the end of November or beginning of ...
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Julian Hunt, director of communications, Food and Drink Federation
Whether you are a craft baker or a plant producer, the Commission’s forthcoming review of EU food labelling regulations, due to be published later this year, will affect the way you do business. There is clearly a need to simplify the rules and the Commission’s review will look to streamline ...
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Irwin’s breads on Irish menu
Independent bakery Irwin’s business development manager Brendan Lappin has unveiled 69-pub chain O’Neill’s new Taste of Ireland menu, due to launch in October.The menu now features Irwin’s Irish Soda Bread and Potato Bread as part of its core offering."This is a significant development for Irwin’s," said Lappin. "This level of ...
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Visitor profile for Starbucks
What is the profile of the typical Starbucks customer? That was question posed by the IGD in its recent Café Culture report.Using interviews with 1,000 consumers, it looked specifically at the 13% of adults who claimed to use Starbucks regularly. It reports that they are typically younger, more affluent workers. ...
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People
Dave Roberts, Lucy BaylemDawn FoodsSweet bakery specialist Dawn Foods has promoted Dave Roberts to national account controller for the UK, from his previous role as national account manager.Roberts will report to the commercial director for Europe and be responsible for spearheading growth in finished products, working closely with customers to ...
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Mike Holling, president, NAMB
"Summer? What summer?" is the general thought for 2007. What we will remember is the flooding that devastated businesses and displaced communities in some parts of the country.At Birds of Derby, we were very fortunate; when the heavy rain came, we just had one shop that it became impossible ...
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Historic occasion
Some 84 past and present members of the British Confectioners’ Association gathered in Nairn, Scotland last month for an historic annual general meeting.For the first time in the association’s 102-year history, women were admitted as members. Previously membership had been confined to men. Secretary Tim Cutress announced that the chosen ...