All British Baker articles in September 2007 – Page 3
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Summer sees mixed results for bakers
Craft bakers say they put up their prices due to rising costs for ingredients such as flour and butter, following a mixed summer’s trading.Gary Reeve of Salisbury-based Reeve the Baker said sales were up between 5-8% as the cooler wea-ther meant people went to the high street rather than the ...
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Baked range launch for TV chef
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson has launched a licensed range of baked breadsticks and croutini, now on sale through supermarkets Morrisons, Waitrose and Booths.The new products are manufactured by the croutons, croutini and breadsticks specialist, Bradford-based Trilogy Foods."My food range is all about the best taste from the ...
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Waterfield scoops top prize at Baking Industry Awards
John Waterfield, managing director of Lancashire craft bakery chain Waterfields, scooped the prestigious Baker of the Year prize as British Baker held its spectacular 20th annual Baking Industry Awards this week.The James Bond-themed event, hosted by actress Joanna Lumley, took place on Monday, 17 September, at the five-star Grosvenor House ...
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BSB sets out its agenda
’The Tesco Approach to Baked Products’ and ’Managing Change in a Family Business’ will be among the topics addressed at the British Society of Baking conference in October.Speakers at the event, which takes place on 8 and 9 October, include Nigel Doughty, MD of bakery chain Paul UK, food broadcaster ...
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International activity
Anuga, the 286,000sq m international trade fair for food and beverages, is to take place in Cologne, from 13 to 17 October 2007.It has 10 specialised trade shows under one roof, and will be hosting Anuga Bread & Bakery, Hot Beverages, which attracted 377 exhibitors and 46,851 visitors in 2005. ...
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ABF takes share in Jordans
Associated British Foods (ABF) has announced that it is to acquire 20% share capital of Jordans, the breakfast cereal and cereal bar business.The family-run W Jordan & Son, has three manufacturing sites and a head office in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. It had sales of £81m and gross assets of ...
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SEPTEMBER - OCTOber Highlights in the coming months include the glamorous Baking Industry Awards in September and a Bakers’ Tour in France
September1 - 2 Continental, Italian and French BreadsLocation: Cann Mills, DorsetContact, tel: 01722 341 447email: info@panary.co.uk4 - 5 Basic BreadmakingLocation: Cann Mills, DorsetContact, tel: 01722 341 447email: info@panary.co.uk7 - 9 The London Food FestivalLocation: Business Design Centre in IslingtonContact, tel: 020 7240 2444email: delilah@stormcom.co.uk9 Basic Breadmaking, one-day courseLocation: ...
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viewpoint
At the same time that the national press is filled with horror stories about additives, the baking industry is having to turn to improvers to help prevent loaves collapsing after the new harvest (pg 4).Wastage this year seems particularly bad. Nature has played such strange tricks with the wet weather ...
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A spirited
approachCourvoisier: ’The Brandy of Napoleon’, it says on the bottle. Perhaps it should add underneath: ’And Helen Colley’s Bread and Butter Pudding’.But there’s not really room for her Farmhouse Fare logo beneath the distinctive black outline of France’s favourite emperor. And besides, I’m not really sure that our most British ...
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Legislation watch
Employers who count the eight public and bank holidays as part of their workers’ holiday entitlement will have to give them extra time off from 1 October, law firm DWF has warned.According to the new Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, statutory holidays will increase to a minimum of 5.6 weeks, including ...
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Farmhouse Fare revamp includes TV sponsorship
Premium pudding supplier Farmhouse Fare has unveiled a £2m marketing package, including new packaging and a new TV sponsorship deal.The new packaging designs, which have been developed over the past six months, feature products from mixing bowl to dessert bowl, and give details of the story behind the six-year-old company.Farmhouse ...
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Lewis Pies set to expand
Swansea-based Lewis Pies is to spend £700,000 on extending its facilities so that they are "large enough to take our expansion plans for the next decade", it said.The premises in Forestfach will be extended this autumn to feature a new 7,500sq ft factory bolted onto the existing unit.The work, due ...
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Down on the farm
Spring Lane Farm in Mapperley, Nottingham, is a working farm, solely producing products to sell on-site - from free range eggs and vegetables to fresh meat.The idea of opening a bakery evolved because the butchery was having to sell forequarter meat from the cattle as stewing steak and mince. So ...
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Do-it-all Doolittles
Sandwiches might seem a rather stodgy subject for an exciting new launch in a highly competitive market, but that’s exactly what Jenni Timony of Doolittles in Co Donegal has done. She started her firm in 2001 and it has since shown 70% year-on-year growth. It now produces about 110 different ...
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Date loaf
This straightforward and reliable cake both tastes good and is low in fat. What more could you want to satisfy today’s demanding consumers?The recipe comes from Walter Mansbridge’s handwritten notebook and dates from the early 20th century.Mansbridge was a baker in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, where his descendants continue to run ...
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Flour crisis hits Zimbabwe
Two of the biggest bakeries in Zimbabwe said last week that they were about to run out of flour, adding to bread shortages. Lobels Bread, the country’s biggest bakery and Innscor, which runs Bakers Inn, have used up reserve flour stocks.President Mugabe’s government is only importing small quantities of wheat, ...
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Commodities tracker
The price of dried vine fruits coming from Turkey and Greece is soaring, due to extreme drought and the recent fires.Turkish raisin prices are firming, as the vine fruit crop appears to be shrinking. The strengthening Lira has contributed to a "short-term gloomy view" on prices from Turkey, according to ...
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Briefs
n A Czech bread has joined the EU’s list of 800 protected local brands alongside delicacies such as Greek feta cheese. The Czech bread "Karlovarsky suchar" has been awarded status as Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) by the European Commission. The bread is baked using water and salt from thermal ...
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Scotch Pie Week to do its bit for charity
Organisers plan to double the £11,000 raised for charity last year, as Scotch Pie Week returns for its second time in November.During the week, which runs from 24 November to 1 December, Scottish bakers and butchers raise cash for the Scottish Society for Autism by selling branded wristbands or donating ...
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Immigration swoop on bakery sextet
Immigration officers have arrested six people on suspicion of working illegally at the Rathbone Kear bakery in Wigan, Greater Manchester.Two men later appeared before Wigan magistrates charged with using false passports to gain employment at the bakery and were served with deportation papers.The court heard that one of the ...