All British Baker articles in October 2007 – Page 7
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Quality ingredients are essential
Product quality and provenance are becoming increasingly important to retailers and consumers. Yet, for some suppliers, the sourcing of raw ingredients comes well down the list when formulating products.There is now much greater consumer understanding of the provenance of food and a higher level of expectation that companies will provide ...
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A day in the life of...
6.30amThe alarm goes off and I head for the kitchen, where I make myself a cup of tea. The first cup of the day is always the best! Before long, I hear my family up and about. My youngest daughter Caron is a real morning person - must take after ...
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Crusts make for heavy load
A British Bakeries survey has found that more than 10.5 million crusts, weighing 209 tonnes, are thrown away each day in the UK.The findings show that a typical family household throws away the crusts from two slices of bread every day, with one in five (22%) throwing away the crusts ...
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Register for free training conference
Anyone interested in bakery training and how it affects their company, workforce or college is invited to attend a free one-day conference on Tuesday, October 30, at Bakers Hall, Harp Lane, off Lower Thames Street, London EC3 from 10am-12.30 pm.The event will cover future changes to training, education and funding, ...
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Engaging in the carbon debate
If you stroll around a farm for long enough, you’ll inevitably find some unpleasantness attached to your shoe. This was the case when Cadbury measured its corporate carbon footprint and found 67% of its emissions came from milk - even though the milk was produced locally. As Alex Cole, Cadbury’s ...
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Finsbury buys Weight Watchers cake company
Bakery group Finsbury Food Group has acquired Weight Watchers low-fat cake manufacturer Anthony Alan Foods as a rapid expansion programme continues.Anthony Alan is a sales and marketing agency, which has the rights to distribute ambient cakes using the Weight Watchers brand in the UK and Ireland. Manufacture is outsourced to ...
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Morrisons buys Kear’s share in Rathbones
Supermarket Morrisons has acquired the whole of the Rathbone Kear plant bakery business, buying out bakery entrepreneur Harry Kear’s 20% stake.Harry Kear told British Baker: "My job is complete. I have finished what I set out to do which was to get the bakeries in good order and working well. ...
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Scottish engineering firm buys Double D
Equipment supplier Double D Food Engineering has been acquired by the Bonspiel Group, a Scotland-based specialist engineering group."The old owners did a great job of establishing Double D in the UK bakery market," new MD Bob Petrie, formerly of NCR, told British Baker. "But we’re really looking to expand ...
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Briefs
n Farmers, producers, suppliers and retailers of all sizes are being encouraged to take part in the ninth annual Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign. Organised by the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), the campaign highlights the high-quality regional breakfast foods available throughout the country. Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2008 takes place from ...
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Kirk Hunter chief executive of Scottish Association of Master
Political events in Scotland have become extremely interesting. A minority SNP administration is moving cautiously forward trying to avoid contentious issues where the other parties can combine and defeat the Government.The publication of the Government’s Lifelong Skills Strategy was an issue where the administration would have felt on firm ground. ...
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Tate & Lyle profit warning leads to share price fall
Tate & Lyle’s shares fell by over a quarter to 398.75p last week, wiping around £670m from its market capitalisation, after it announced that profits in its sugars division were "sharply lower" than in the comparative period last year.In its third profit warning this year, it said profit margins had ...
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Bread prices set to rise again as flour costs climb higher
The UK’s two major millers have announced an unprecedented second round of steep price rises on flour as the global wheat price continues to soar.Rank Hovis is putting prices up by £85 a tonne for its bread-making flour from 15 October, with ADM Milling adding £84.38 a tonne on non-organic ...
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International Activity
The health benefits of omega-3 in the diet have been reinforced with the publication of a new report. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a study which suggests that a child’s dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids is associated with reduced risk of developing Type 1 diabetes.The ...
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Warburtons workers mull strike action
Staff at Warburtons may be heading for strike action after they rejected a below-inflation wage offer and changes to their working terms and conditions.The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) will ballot its 1,000 members between 10 and 24 October over possible industrial action at Warburtons’ 24 UK bakeries ...
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Honeytop sales soar by 29%
Ethnic bread manufacturer Honeytop Speciality Foods, announced last week that turnover is up by 29%, from £20.5m to £26m on the previous year.Charles Eid, joint-MD of Honeytop, said the results are the culmination of an "exciting year", which has seen new products including organic naan, keema naan and filled ...
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£1,000 prizes to be won at Bolton show
Bakers from all over the country will be flocking to Bolton next Sunday, 14 October, for Bakers’ Fair. This one-day event brings together specialist bakery exhibitors, millers, ingredients manufacturers, machinery suppliers, wholesalers and drinks companies, and is a great opportunity to gauge the latest innovations and services on the market.A ...