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All Bakery articles – Page 65
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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...
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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...