All Bakery articles – Page 59
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Reza goes back to his Mr Bagels roots
Mr Bagels has appointed Reza Hajyzamanali as commercial director. He will be handling duties previously overseen by managing director Paul Kahalani.Hajyzamanali has been charged with helping to lead the company through an aggressive expansion...
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Bread gets all shook up over The King
Allied Bakeries has ditched Kingsmill brand ambassadors Mel and Sue – and replaced them with The King.The baker is aiming to rock its competitors with a new £7m campaign featuring a new TV ad starring a young Elvis lookalike.Hitting...
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Loyd to roll out premium breads
Loyd Grossman is set to enter new territory with the launch of a premium range of Italian and Indian breads, while his cooking sauces are about to receive an advertising boost.The bread range, which is being launched and marketed by Rivermill...
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United bakers’ stand
Two rival wholesale craft bakers in London are merging their sales and distribution operations in a joint venture designed to offset price pressures from customers.The London Bread and Cake Company in Edmonton and European Bakeries in Surrey...
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Cranks sheds its image of the ’60s
Cranks is attempting to expand its vegetarian offer with the relaunch of its sandwich and organic bread lines. The name Cranks has been synonymous with vegetarian fare since the first Cranks vegetarian restaurant opened in London’s Carnaby Street in...
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Vogel turns to cereals
Australian bread specialist Vogel’s is launching an assault on the £1bn-plus cereals market.The manufacturer is throwing three new premium offerings into the arena, all free from artificial flavours, colours and preservatives and suitable for...
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They’re icing on the cake
Asda and the Co-operative Group were most on the lips of suppliers when it came to naming the six best buyers in the bread and pastry category. Gill Woodfield and Adele Balmforth from the Co-op Group were both mentioned. Balmforth was praised by one...
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Six of the best bread and pastry buyers
>>nominated this monthBAKERY BUYER, WAITROSEDickson joined Waitrose as a management trainee in 1987 after leaving the Royal Navy. Following training he was appointed fresh foods department manager at Waitrose's Dibden store,...
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RHM recruits Grivvell to spur on Hovis
RHM has recruited Darren Grivvell as head of marketing for its Hovis bread range, replacing Simon Foster who moved to Manor Bakeries earlier this year.Grivvell moves from Quaker, where he held the same post, and joins the company at the...
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Star brands boost ABF
Ovaltine, Kingsmill and Ryvita helped drive up sales and profit at Associated British Foods in its interim period.Ryvita enjoyed strong growth in crispbreads, while ABF said Ovaltine, which was acquired in November, and Twinings improved...
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Greencore quits bread
Greencore has pulled out of the UK bread market with the sale of its Rathbones own label bakery division to Finedown Mill. The company said the move was consistent with plans to tackle overcapacity in the trade, which has been struggling to cope...
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Greencore exits the UK bread market
Irish food group Greencore has sold its UK bread business Rathbones Bakeries to Finedon Mill for 30m euros.The move completes Greencore’s disposal of its UK bread interests in a bid to concentrate on its growing convenience food categories...
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Home baking café style
Bakehouse, best known for supplying frozen continental pastries and bread to instore bakeries and foodservice outlets, is launching its first bake-at-home range aimed at consumers.Available in Tesco freezers and priced at £1.79, the Café Simple...
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Industry unveils plans to cut salt levels 25%
Salt levels in bread, soup and biscuits will be slashed as the food industry responds to an ultimatum from the Department of Health.The health minister Melanie Johnson told an industry “salt summit” in November that some processed foods could...
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Bakery destroyed
Fire has gutted Warburtons’ Wednesbury bakery, its largest in the UK, which is leaving retailers throughout the Midlands and north-west short of key bread lines.The Wednesbury bakery produced two million loaves a week, which represented 20% of...
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Hovis supplier says 10% bread rise unavoidable
Britain’s largest baker has told customers it plans to raise the wholesale price of all its bread and bakery snack products by 10% from mid-January following the latest hike in the price of flour.British Bakeries, which makes Hovis and Mothers...
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Allied Bakeries joins ACS
Allied Bakeries, the maker of Kingsmill and Sunblest, has become a Premier Club member of the Association of Convenience Stores. Convenience channel controller for Allied Bakeries Mike Bailey said: "We look forward to working very closely...
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Another loaf hike likely
Bread prices will have to rise again in early 2004 if bakers are to recoup a second sharp upsurge in the price of wheat this year, the UK’s leading bakeries have warned.Manufacturers are still struggling to recoup this summer’s £20 a tonne hike...
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Bread: a complex repertoire
With nearly half of shoppers’ buying bread more than once a week and 41% buying weekly, the category has the highest purchasing frequency that Visuality has captured since conducting its shopper research for The Grocer.Customers in this...
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Shoppers reveal high level of bread price awareness
Over 40% of shoppers interviewed for this week’s Shoppers’ Eye category research recalled the price of the bread they had picked up and a quarter were aware the price had changed.Eight out of 10 of these said the price had...