All Bakery articles – Page 49
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Comment & Opinion
Budget's biggest anomaly is the continuing 20% VAT rate
It’s not just restaurants that have been badly hit by the downturn. Even takeaways struggle to compete…
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News
Premier's Clarke looking forward despite £259.1m loss
Premier Foods boss Michael Clarke hopes to “draw a line under” its 2011 performance after recording a £259.1m pre-tax loss
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News
Greggs cautious over cooling sales trend
The number of Greggs bakeries keeps on growing but the company’s share price is charting a choppier path.
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Kepak points Feasters at family market and keeps Rustlers for lads
Microwavable snack brand Feasters is to be repositioned as a “family focused” range to set it apart from rival Rustlers.
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Analysis & Features
Bakery prices finally rise after flat 2011
The past 12 months have been a tale of two halves for the bakery category - or three quarters, more like.
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News
Kingsmill squeezed despite outpacing rivals
Kingsmill margins have taken a knock even though the bread brand grew faster than rivals Warburtons and Hovis last year.
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News
GLA to turn up heat on the processing sector
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has announced plans to ramp up its focus on food processing in the same week the government gave a show of support for the body’s future.
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News
Whitworths sugar for baking offers an end to spillage and waste
Sugar distributor Napier Brown is rolling out a retail sugar brand designed to take the hassle out of home baking.
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News
Real bread loaf mark signs up 50th baker
The Loaf Mark - which was launched last year to flag up bread free from artificial additives - has been adopted by more than 50 bakeries.
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Category Report
BREAD: Sliced white left behind as variety & health win out
While it’s unlikely anyone will take Warburtons’ top spot in the bread brands chart in the foreseeable future
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News
Kingsmill range given an overhaul by Allied
Allied Bakeries is giving Kingsmill a new look supported by a £4.6m marketing push – which will include the brand’s first social media activity.
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News
Spar adds more snacks and cakes
Spar is extending its ownlabel baked snacks and cakes range after a successful rollout last year.
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News
Harris insists Bakery Products ‘doing well’
After snapping up another bakery, Ugo Stores owner Arthur Harris has insisted Bakery Products, the business he acquired in April this year, is trading well.
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News
Is Symington’s new snack the best thing since sliced bread?
Seabrook Crisps and Symington’s are aiming to shake up the snacking aisle with the launch of a range of bread crisps.
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News
It’s jam today as WI debuts its food range
In one of the least surprising announcements of 2011, jams and chutneys are among the first wave of branded products to be rolled out by the WI.
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News
Asda takes Chosen By You bread making in-store
Asda has begun baking, slicing and packaging its Chosen By You own-label bread in store. Following a trial in 25 stores that saw a 30% increase in sales of Chosen By You loaves over a 12-week period, the retailer is now rolling the scheme out across its estate.
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News
Morrisons freshens up bakery offer with 100% British wheat
Morrisons is relaunching its entire own-label bread range and switching to 100% British-sourced wheat. The new line-up, which rolls out to stores next week under the Baked By Us label, comprises 90 lines and replaces the retailer’s existing own-label offer.
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News
Budgens trials top-tier bakery range
Eight Budgens stores have started selling premium loaves of bread as the symbol group continues to improve its top-end range.
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News
Irwin’s Irish Batch Bread rolls into Asda
Northern Irish bakery Irwin's has won its first listing in England for its Irish Batch bread. The bread, rolling into 150 Asda stores across England now, is made using traditional recipes and is not baked in individual tins but at the...
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News
Warburtons takes first steps outside UK with Euro-friendly loves
Warburtons has expanded outside the UK for the first time by launching into Tesco stores in four central European countries. The baker has worked with Tesco’s group food sourcing team – which sources products that could work across the retailer’s global business – to tailor seven Warburtons-branded lines for the European market. They include a white Toastie loaf, fruit bread, brown bread, crumpets and English muffins.