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A glance at Gdańsk’s bakeries

Andrzej Szydłowski Bakery

Gdańsk, situated on the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, was already a rich and influential city in the Middle Ages. This makes it an attractive showcase for the Polish baked goods market – so here is a short tour through the Gdańsk bakeries.

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Guidelines for easy-to-clean bakery technology

  • Thursday, 23 May 2013
  • baking industry
A high-calibre work group tasked with preparing guidelines for the easy-to-clean design and hygienic construction of all types of bakery technology starts work on 20 June 2013. The “European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group” (EHEDG) – a te...Read more …

Capway Pan teams up with EverBake

  • Wednesday, 22 May 2013
  • supplier
The Dutch group Capway is bringing its baking tray and pan business, which is combined in the Capway Pan Netherlands company, Dronten, into a joint venture with the EverBake Group in Biddinghuizen, the Netherlands. Production will be concentrated at ...Read more …

ADM likely to take over GrainCorp

  • Tuesday, 21 May 2013
  • supplier
Concentration is continuing on the international raw materials markets, which are decisively important for the food industry and especially for the baking sector. For example according to publications in the Australian press, it is very likely that t...Read more …

Vandemoortele with its 2012 annual results

  • Friday, 17 May 2013
  • supplier
The Belgian company Vandemoortele N.V., Ghent, achieved total sales of EUR 1,260m in 2012. This is a slight decrease of 1% compared to 2011. According to the report, the company concentrated on an improved product mix in the Bakery Products business ...Read more …

Bolletje taken over by Borggreve

  • Friday, 17 May 2013
  • supplier
According to reports in the Grafschafter Nachrichten newspaper, the Die Dietrich Borggreve Zwieback & Keksfabrik KG in Neuenhaus, Germany, is taking over the Dutch zwieback manufacturer Bolletje in Almelo. Both companies employ around 800 staff, an...Read more …

Greggs plans to open frozen savory facility

  • Thursday, 16 May 2013
  • baking industry
British bakery chain Greggs plc, Newcastle upon Tyne, will invest around GBP 30m (approx. EUR 35.5m) in a new frozen savories facility in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The facility will produce a range of frozen savory products to be supplied to retailer...Read more …

Allied Bakeries commissions largest bread production facility

  • Wednesday, 15 May 2013
  • baking industry
Allied Bakeries in Maidenhead, a subsidiary of the Associated British Foods plc (ABF) in London, UK, announced the commissioning of its largest bread plant in Walthamstow, near London, UK. The site will operate with a capacity of 10,000 loaves of bre...Read more …

Apollo re-launches Hostess bakeries

  • Tuesday, 14 May 2013
  • baking industry
Apollo Global Management LLC and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co, who acquired Hostess Brands, Inc. in March 2013 (see also news at http://www.bakingbiscuit.com/newsview/items/hostessto-be-continued.html), will reopen four bakeries this summer under the n...Read more …

Burger King sells company-owned German restaurants

  • Tuesday, 14 May 2013
  • food market
In early May 2013, Burger King Worldwide, Inc. in Miami, Florida, USA, announced the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary Burger King GmbH, Munich, Germany, and its 91 company-owned Burger King restaurants in Germany to Yi-Ko Holding GmbH, owned and o...Read more …

India: food consumption is growing

  • Monday, 13 May 2013
  • food market
According to new research by the management consulting company McKinsey & Company, Inc. in New York, USA, and the Confederation of Indian Industry, food consumption in India will rise by 4% each year from INR 11tn (approx. EUR 154.2bn) in 2010 to I...Read more …