Luisa Zissman has already attracted 16 investors for her bakery venture via crowdfunding web operation Angels Den after losing to rival Leah Totton in The Apprentice final last night (July 17).
Border Biscuits is expanding its factory as it continues to experience year-on-year growth. The growth is, in part, aided by the introduction of the company’s first automated line, which bosses conceded was a "huge culture shock" for the Lanark...
The boss of a British bakery firm is taking on Danish and French apprentices because she claims there is little interest or support from colleges or government to devise schemes for British youngsters.
A former west Yorkshire food manufacturer — Andrew Jones Pies, of Huddersfield, which is now in administration — has been ordered to pay £375,000, after a gas explosion ripped through its bakery oven, killing a father of two and seriously injuring another...
A Yorkshire baker is appearing on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den on December 23 in a bid to secure the backing she needs to make her premium cakes a national brand.
A US-themed stand at a London Coffee Festival inspired a Welsh bakery to launch US-style chocolate cake pops for the UK's coffee shops and retail outlets.
Mühlenchemie has developed an alternative to guar gum powder that is designed to ensure optimum water binding, stability and freshness in bread baking.
DSM is deploying its enzyme toolkit to develop innovative ways to replace guar gum in bakery products. The firm says the effects of guar gum for thickening, binding and improving texture can be replicated using a combination of enzymes and ingredients....
Dairy ingredients manufacturer Meadow Cheese has launched a low melt processed cheese which is designed for use inside savoury pastries and flans as well as products that contain dough or crumb as an ingredient.
Warburtons has helped develop new testing equipment to address the challenges of sticky dough faced by the bakery industry, potentially improving production efficiency.
Chancellor George Osborne has heeded the advice of high street baker Greggs and others and scrapped plans to charge VAT on some hot pasties, pies and sausage rolls.
The plans by Dutch-owned bakery ingredients group CSM to sell parts of its European and American bakery supplies business puts far more jobs at risk than the 400 previously reported, a union official has told FoodManufacture.co.uk.
Sustain's Real Bread Mark has been criticised by the plant baking industry for potentially demonising necessary additives and failing to recognise work already achieved to deliver clean-label bread.
Bakery ingredients supplier CSM UK has reduced the saturated fat content of its cake margarine.Craigmillar Marvello RSF Blend cake margarine contains...
The Cake Bake Company has entered administration after the Kent-based firm encountered severe financial difficulties, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learnt.
UK based specialty bread producer, Giles Foods, claims an expansion of its production facilities to the tune of £4.5m (€5.26m) will allow it to meet a hike in demand for its premium and artisan range.
Baker Perkins has developed a new control system for Tweedy mixing systems now renamed Tweedy2. The system promises industrial bakers using the Chorleywood process improved consistency and quality of the baked product, plus enhanced efficiency and ease...
Plant bakers could learn a lot from breakfast cereals producers when it comes to promoting the benefits of the product range and growing the sector,...
More than three years after the introduction of the European ATEX explosive atmospheres regulations, government statistics show that 37% of industry...
Dawn Foods is offering bakers an easy shortcut to making choux pastry products. The company's marketing director Maggie Dagostino explains: "Many of...
The sweet toffee flavour of honeycomb means that it has long been a favourite with confectioners and bakers, but its hygroscopic nature causes it to...
