All Bakery articles – Page 61
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Kingsmill bakes some premium bagels
Kingsmill has started baking bagels to cash in on a growing demand for premium bakery snacks.Beautiful Bagels are plain bagels that will be available in the major multiples and convenience sector, while a Cinnamon & Raisin variant will be...
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RHM staff may strike over pension cuts
Workers at RHM, the maker of Hovis and Mr Kipling, are holding a consultative ballot to vote on whether to take action over the company’s plans to cut final-salary pensions.Trade union Amicus is asking members to hold meetings to see whether...
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Staddon rises to Nicholas & Harris MD
Finsbury Food Group has appointed Simon Staddon as managing director of its Nicholas & Harris subsidiary, a leading supplier of premium and speciality bread. He will have complete operational responsibility for Nicholas & Harris and...
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Frozen is so cool
Forget the widget! Frozen food is the best thing since sliced bread, according to an exclusive consumer survey for The Grocer.Asked by market research company HI Europe to name the top grocery innovations of the past century, shoppers put...
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Warburtons expands in north with Rathbones buy
Warburtons has expanded its presence in the north of England with the purchase of Rathbones’; bakery site in Yarm Road, Stockton for an undisclosed sum.The plant will serve a cross-section of Warburtons’ existing retail customers across the...
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AWT bakes a crispbread
Antony Worrall Thompson is making his first foray into the added value bread arena with a new crispbread called Croutini.A cross between a crouton and a crostini, the three-strong offering will be joined on shelf by a range of AWT-branded...
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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...