All British Baker articles in September 2009 – Page 4
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Belfast bakery struggles under weight of debts
Millers Traditional Bakery is fighting to stay in business and protect 60 jobs after running up big debts.The Belfast family-run baker hopes to reach a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) with creditors to avoid liquidation after one of those owed money – Latimer Electrical Services Limited – brought a wind-up petition.A ...
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Belfast bakery struggles under weight of debts
Millers Traditional Bakery is fighting to stay in business and protect 60 jobs after running up big debts.
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Register for Bakers’ Fair now!
Don’t forget to register to visit Bakers’ Fair, supported by Norbake, taking place at Manchester Armitage Centre on Sunday 4 October. Entry is free, and visitors will have the chance to pick up lots of new tips and ideas for their businesses, as well as checking out the Richemont Club ...
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Professional versus amateur cupcake-off competition
Professional bakers are going head-to-head with amateur chefs in the latest culinary craze: monthly cupcake-offs.
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Warrens Bakery opens cupcake café
Cornwall-based Warrens Bakery has opened Sprinkles, a cupcake café in Penzance, just in time for National Cupcake Week.
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Duchy and Waitrose join forces
Waitrose has joined forces in a new agreement with Duchy Originals which will give the supermarket the exclusive right to originate, manufacture, distribute and sell Duchy products. Waitrose aims to more than double the current range of 200 products to around 500, and will pay a royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail sales.
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Europastry to expand in Holland
Spanish firm Europastry is to open a commercial subsidiary in Holland in order to widen its distribution links in Europe. The new site will serve its markets in Germany, Belgium and Northern Europe, to which it already distributes.
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Europastry to expand in Holland
Spanish firm Europastry is to open a commercial subsidiary in Holland in order to widen its distribution links in Europe.The new site will serve its markets in Germany, Belgium and Northern Europe, to which it already distributes. The firm, which produces parbaked bread and frozen pastries, also has subsidiaries in ...
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The smallest cupcake ever?
North-west bakery chain Sayers and Hampsons has decided to celebrate National Cupcake Week, not with an attempt to make the largest cupcake, but by creating the smallest!Sayers said the Guinness Book of Records entry for the World’s Smallest Cupcake has never been recorded, so it is hoping its mini baked ...
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Lees Foods’ chief to leave
Lees Foods’ chairman and chief executive Raymond Miquel CBE has left the firm.
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Lees Foods’ chief to leave
Lees Foods’ chairman and chief executive, Raymond Miquel CBE, has left the firm. The Lees business comprises Lees of Scotland and Waverley Bakery. It also owned Patisserie UK which was put into administration in March 2009 after its major customer - Costa Coffee, which accounted for 75% of its sales ...
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BakeMark launches POS website for bakers
BakeMark UK has launched a new website in order to help bakers with point-of-sale materials and to remove some of the expense of design and print costs.
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BakeMark launches POS website for bakers
BakeMark UK has launched a new website in order to help bakers with point of sale materials and to remove some of the expense of design and print costs. It commissioned research in the artisan bakery sector which revealed that bakers were keen for support with professional POS materials.The new ...
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Leakers picks up Taste of Dorset accolade
Bridport-based Leakers Bakery has triumphed at this year’s Taste of Dorset competition, picking up the accolade for Best Artisan Baker.The bakery has decided to celebrate its win with a special range of themed cupcakes to be sold during National Cupcake Week this week.Rick Payne, marketing manager for Hall and Woodhouse ...
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NewsThe smallest cupcake ever?
North-west bakery chain Sayers and Hampsons has decided to celebrate National Cupcake Week, not with an attempt to make the largest cupcake, but by creating the smallest!
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Leakers picks up Taste of Dorset accolade
Bridport-based Leakers Bakery has triumphed at this year’s Taste of Dorset competition, picking up the accolade for Best Artisan Baker.
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Working wheat
On a sunny day in the first week in August, British Baker went to visit a farm in West Sussex, one of the many to supply Warburtons with wheat, to find out more about the seed-to-crumb process.Bignor Farm is tucked away in a picturesque setting at the foot of the ...
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Warburtons’ winter warmer
Warburtons is reintroducing its limited-edition Winter Fruit Loaf for the festive season.First launched in 2003, the traditional recipe loaf includes orange and lemon fruit pieces, as well as cinnamon, sultanas, currants and spices.Sarah Miskell, category director at Warburtons, said: "Fruit loaves offer customers a healthier tea-time treat, showing strong value ...
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Turbo tots
Here’s how to bake a "delicious and low-fat alternative to a regular cake" that would be "a great cake for a kids’ birthday party", according to one US website. That is, assuming you don’t mind the prospect and possible legal fallout of peddling this psychedelic cake to a ...
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In Short
Cupcake classesSquires Kitchen will be holding cupcake master classes for each day of the BBC Good Food Show in London, from 13-15 November. Mark Tilling, a renowned chocolatier, will be demonstrating how to decorate three different cupcakes: Chocolate Butterfly Cupcake; Fruit Fondant Iced Cupcake with Flower Decoration; and Christmas Cupcake ...