All Bakery articles – Page 55
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Warburtons opens £45m Bristol plant
Soaring demand for Warburtons bread has prompted the brand to build a 520,000 sq ft bakery in Bristol.Warburtons is investing £45m in the Severn Beach-based facility, which is expected to be fully operational by December. More than 450...
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Meat price rises cover barely half of the costs
Meat is being sold below cost across Europe, controversial new European Commission figures have revealed - though the price of many other food staples has risen faster than the cost of production.The retail price of bread was expected to...
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Finding the hook for meats
While UK shoppers are sold on French bread, wine and cheese, marketing French meats to them is more of a challenge.From pâté to foie gras, the French are struggling to get a handle on what the British want from their deli counters. As a...
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Premier: it's about more than our daily bread
The soaring price of wheat, the now unfashionably heavy debt levels, and the cut in the dividend. These fundamentals dominated the headlines when Premier Foods announced a £73.5m pre-tax loss earlier this month. But CEO Robert Schofield...
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Schofield's pricepledge
Premier Foods boss Robert Schofield has pledged an end to the problems that saw sales of Hovis, its iconic bread brand, plummet.When Premier acquired RHM last March, Schofield was shocked to discover it had forward wheat contracts for...
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Mission's new bread ranges in TV ad push
Mission Foods is supporting its bakery range with a £1.3m advertising campaign following its expansion into naans and pitta breads.The Deli Naans and Deli Pittas range, rolling out now, will be backed with TV ads launching this...
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Expect bread plan to fail the acid test
The Food Standards Agency's plan for the mandatory addition of folic acid to bread could bring increased health risks for millions of peopleIt's staggering, and depressing, just how often the Food Standards Agency gets it wrong....
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Warburtons fibre boost
Warburtons is extending its wholemeal bread offer with an extra-fibre option to focus on the growing healthy bread sector.Wholemeal Fibre Boost hits shelves next week, priced at £1.32 for an 800g loaf. The bread provides more than one...
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New look for Kingsmill Gold
Allied Bakeries is relaunching its premium Kingsmill Gold range with new packaging and varieties supported by a £3m push including TV ads.The relaunch, aimed at the growing top end of the market, includes two seed-based breads under the...
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Rank Hovis recalls flour
Rank Hovis has recalled batches of Elephant Atta, Fassal and Goldcrest flour because the product could contain small pieces of metal.The products are supplied by wholesalers but many of the customers are members of the public, said the Food...
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Allied Bakeries brings new trio to sales team
After a rocky 2007, Kingsmill manufacturer Allied Bakeries has kicked off the new year with three new appointments. The changes have been made by sales director Martin Brewis a year after he took up his role. Ann-Marie Perkins,...
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Thick bread. It's a disgrace
Pssst. Do you want to know the real cause of obesity? It's nothing to do with people gorging themselves on sweets and fizzy drinks, or eating Big Macs, apparently, but rather the curse of the thick-cut sliced sarnie.This revelation was...
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Strike over pay set to hit Warburtons
Warburtons is facing disruption to production in the run-up to Christmas after workers agreed to a 48-hour strike later this month.The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, which has 1,200 members among Warburtons' 3,000 employees,...
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Sainsbury's signs deal to source British wheat
Sainsbury's has become the first chain to achieve full traceability for its fresh own label bread by sourcing wheat for its in-store bakeries from named British farmers.A multimillion-pound deal with miller Whitworth Bros and farmers in...
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Kingsmill price puzzles
The price of Kingsmill bread is lagging 20p behind arch-rival Hovis, analysis in The Grocer 33 has revealed - stumping industry commentators who suggested that the prices of commodity-based products were increasing across the board. This...
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Premier Foods to meet expectations
Premier Foods has said it expects to meet market expectations for 2007 despite rising raw material and packaging costs. In a trading update released this morning, the food manufacturer, which owns brands including Branston, Hovis, Oxo and...
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Mail strike holds up Warburtons ballot
Union leaders have been forced to reschedule a strike ballot for Warburtons staff after voting papers were held up by Royal Mail stoppages earlier this month. The original two-week ballot was open from 10-24 October, but the Royal Mail...
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British sarnies are still rubbish
The once-ghastly fillings in sarnies are better but the bread is still a national embarrassment. Simple, wholesome bread could improve our nutritional status overnightI'm not a fan of the British sarnie, so when I face a long journey I...
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Rising prices take the biscuit
Spiralling wheat costs have hit the headlines this year. But it's not just the price of a loaf of bread that's been affected - the sweet side of the baking industry has also felt the squeeze. Biscuit flour prices have doubled from about £90 a...