All Bakery articles – Page 60
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Fox’s promises sweet success
The new bosses at Fox’s are confident they can drive sales beyond the £100m barrier to make the Leicester-based company a leading light in the confectionery market.
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Buyers expect price hikes from suppliersReader Panel: Buyers
Nearly three-quarters of buyers in our Reader Panel believe suppliers will try to push up cost prices in the next six months. Confectionery, soft drinks, bread, beers, wines and spirits and frozen are among the categories in which suppliers...
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Kingsmill gets the gift of the Gaby
Britain’s three biggest bakers – Allied, Warburtons and British Bakeries – have all announced new initiatives in a multi-million pound round of backing to drive sales.Allied Bakeries has signed up TV personality Gaby Logan to be its latest brand...
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Co-op makes pledge on TV
The Co-operative Group is supporting the launch of its “bread and milk promise” with a TV ad to be shown across selected regions.The promise is being rolled out to the society’s 1,200 stores and states that if the store runs out of specific...
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Flour price rises 17%
Rocketing wheat prices have started to filter down the supply chain with the UK’s largest miller Rank Hovis this week raising flour prices by £35 a tonne – or 15-17%.This could translate into a 4-6p rise on the retail price of a loaf if...
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Doorstep option
Hovis is adding a new Extra Thick variety to its Best of Both part-wholemeal white bread range and relaunching the brand with revamped packaging and a new television ad campaign.Instore from the middle of this month, the new thicker cut...
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A taste of indulgence
Independent bakery Warburtons is bringing out a Fuller Flavour loaf, made with wheat fermented for five hours. The premium, white, thickly-sliced loaf will be rolled out at the end of this month across all major multiples. It claims a...
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Costs force baker's closure
One of the largest bakeries in the Irish Republic, and the main supplier of Dunnes Stores own label bread, is to shut. The closure of Neville Brothers, based in Macroom, Co Cork, means the loss of 50 jobs. The company blamed the shutdown on...
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Manor Bakeries marketing director Ian Ayling is to leave at
The company said Ayling wanted to follow other opportunities in the grocery sector. During his nine years working for Manor Bakeries' and its parent company Ranks Hovis McDougall, he developed key brands. He worked on Bisto, Paxo and Saxa...
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A ROUND-UP OF THE HOTTEST RECENT ACTION IN FMCG
£8m for Kingsmill n Allied Bakeries is putting £8m, its biggest marketing budget yet, behind the Kingsmill portfolio. n The bread brand is also getting a packaging makeover, with a redesigned icon, brighter colour combinations and ...
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Gondolas at large for M&S Italian range push
Marks & Spencer is showcasing its Italian range until June, with new products and instore activity that includes tastings and gondola-end promotions. Sampling of some of the 250 products which cover prepared meals, sandwiches, wines, breads,...
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Baker leaves RHM
Ranks Hovis McDougall has announced the departure of Peter Baker, chief operating officer of its consumer brands division, after more than 28 years with the group. The move is part of a restructure announced by chief executive Ian McMahon, who...
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ABF profits from acquisitions
Associated British Foods, the maker of Kingsmill bread and Twinings tea, said profit at the group had been boosted by its acquisition of Mazola corn oil and malt drink Ovaltine. For the year to September 13, ABF posted a 9% rise in pre-tax...
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ABF profits from acquisitions
Associated British Foods said interim results had seen good performances from its Kingsmill bread, Ryvita crispbread and discount clothes store Primark and buoyed by new the businesses of Mazola oils and Ovaltine drinks.The group – which...
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Kingsmill gets shouting
Mary Carmichael Allied Bakeries is putting £8m, its biggest marketing budget yet, behind the Kingsmill bread portfolio, as well as giving it a packaging makeover. Rolling out from next week, the brand's new image will include a clearer...
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RHM lines up top team for its consumer brands
Rod Addy Ranks Hovis McDougall has announced the management board for its consumer brands unit, which will be headed by chief operating officer Peter Baker. It is one of three divisions set up after a major restructure last year. Joining...
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bagel burst
Maple Leaf Bakery is ploughing a "seven figure sum" into another burst of TV ads for its New York Bagel Company brand. Breaking on Monday (February 24), the four-week campaign features a man in his underpants dancing around a kitchen. His...
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Indian food turns fast
Two former Marks and Spencer buyers will open their first Indian fast food outlet, in Wardour Street, London, on Monday (January 27). The new 700 sq ft shop will have a tandoori oven to bake fresh naan bread and offer a range of more than 100...
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RHM chief bows out
Paul Wilkinson is stepping down as chairman and chief executive of Ranks Hovis McDougall.
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Grupo Bimbo in gum deal
Mexico's Grupo Bimbo, which manufactures packaged bread, cakes, biscuits and other packaged foods, has struck a deal to sell the products of US chewing gum giant Wrigley in Mexico.Bimbo said its subsidiary Barcel will become the exclusive...