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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 …

Canada Bread closes snack cakes division

  • Friday, 3 May 2013
  • baking industry
Canada Bread Limited in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, will close its bakery in Shawinigan, Quebec, on 3rd May 2013. The 90% subsidiary of Maple Leaf Foods Inc. produced snack cakes at the site under the Chevalier, Cadbury and Obsession brands.  The ...Read more …

Cuisine de France acquires Boulangeries de France

  • Thursday, 2 May 2013
  • baking industry
Cuisine de France, the range of French-style bread-based products of Aryzta AG, Zurich, Switzerland, acquired the business of Boulangeries de France in London, UK. Managing Director of Boulangeries de France, Thierry Cacaly, will continue the day to ...Read more …

International bakers and confectioners are merging

  • Tuesday, 30 April 2013
  • baking industry
The International Union of Bakers (UIB) and the International Union of Confectioners (UIPCG) have decided to merge, thus constituting the International Union of Bakers and Confectioners (UIBC), starting 1st January 2014. On this date, the assets of b...Read more …

Lidl/Bonback: More ground-breaking activities planned

  • Monday, 22 April 2013
  • baking industry
The second ground-breaking operation by Bonback GmbH & Co. KG, Übach-Palenberg, producer of baked goods for the discounter Lidl, should really have marked the start of the last phase of building (cf on the German site: http://www.backwelt.de/newsv...Read more …

Current structural data for the German baking craft

  • Friday, 19 April 2013
  • baking industry
The current structural data for the German baking industry were presented at the press conference of the Central Association of the German Baking Trade e.V., Berlin, Germany, in Berlin in mid-April 2013. According to this, there were still 13,666 com...Read more …

Harry-Brot increases its turnover

  • Thursday, 18 April 2013
  • baking industry
Harry-Brot GmbH from Schenefeld, Germany, has increased its turnover by almost 10% to EUR 813m in 2012, as Managing Director Hans-Jochen Holthausen reported to the German newspaper Lebensmittel Zeitung. The growth was mainly in the range of prebake p...Read more …

Burton’s to invest

  • Friday, 12 April 2013
  • baking industry
Burton's Foods Limited from St. Albans, one of the largest biscuit makers in the UK, announced plans to invest GBP 13.5m (EUR 15.6m) in 2013 in upgrading its production facilities to boost efficiency and provide additional capacity. According to the ...Read more …