A combination of high commodity prices and labour costs are a “constant attrition”, hindering growth at one of the UK’s biggest bakery firms, its group finance director has claimed.
VAT no longer applies to coconut covered snowballs made by Thomas Tunnock and Lees of Scotland because they are cakes, an Edinburgh tribunal has ruled in a long-running saga.
A cake resembling a Christmas turkey dinner has been created by UK baking ingredients manufacturer Renshaw and a Leicester-based professional cake decorator, in celebration of the festive season.
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.
Finsbury Food Group ceo John Duffy says that “relentless commodity price inflation” on basic ingredients such as butter, sugar and flour have eroded the firm’s profit margins.
Finsbury Food Group chief executive John Duffy says that a turnaround in the firm’s cake division has led to growth in the first half year, as it bids to recoup losses from the egg dioxin scare that struck it in January.
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Investment, innovation and improved efficiency are helping home baking ingredients supplier Renshaw to sweeten up its future, as Sarah Britton discovers
The Global Cake Company has closed down its Bridlington factory after attempts to sell the frozen cake plant as a going concern ended in failure.All...