All news articles for August 2020

Whether baking it at home, ordering online or buying it at a bakery, it's definitely the week to indulge in cake. Pic: Nudge PR

Cake Week: ‘Romance is the icing, but love is the cake’

By Gill Hyslop

Renowned TV chef Julia Child couldn’t have penned the world’s passion for the soft, sweet, indulgent treat more aptly. BakeryandSnacks celebrates Cake Week (August 31-September 6) by examining what consumers really want when it comes to their favourite...

Get to know your customer through a digital loyalty scheme. Pic: GettyImages/Oleksandra Polishchuk

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Helping bakeries implement an effective loyalty scheme

By Gill Hyslop

Despite a recent YouGov poll revealing that 47% of UK consumers are more likely to spend their money with a brand whose loyalty scheme they are a part of, businesses often fail to introduce effective systems, writes Frederick Szydlowski, CMO and co-founder...

Forget coronavirus ... are you ready to let your tastebuds trip to exotic lands?

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Ready for an armchair holiday with Lay’s?

By Gill Hyslop

With travelling on the back burner for now, Lay’s has unveiled four potato chip flavours that will whisk you away to an exotic location.

Interest from organic companies in next year's ISM trade fair has risen, say organizers. Pic: ISM

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ISM 2021: Organic sweets & snacks set to steal the show

By Anthony Myers

Organic has been popular for years in the confectionery industry, but the coronavirus pandemic is contributing towards a boom in the sector, reflected by an increase in exhibitors at ISM.

Guittard's celebrated chocolate chips arrive in Waitrose in the UK this week. Pic: Guittard Chocolate Company

Baking

Guittard launches baking chips into Waitrose stores in UK

By Anthony Myers

San Francisco Bay Area chocolate maker, Guittard Chocolate Company, is launching its celebrated, Fairtrade certified chocolate chips into premium grocer Waitrose stores in the UK for the first time, it has announced.

Ardent Mills expands retail flour business with new production lines and pack sizes

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Ardent Mills expands retail capabilities and production

By Mary Ellen Shoup

Flour and ingredients company Ardent Mills has made significant updates and investments to its retail and production capabilities to better meet booming demand in the baking industry.

The 1.1kg sliced Seeded Sourdough from Bertinet Bakery answers consumer demand for a bigger loaf. Pic: Bertinet Bakery

Lockdown turns sourdough into bottom line sensation for Bertinet Bakery

By Gill Hyslop

The Bath-based producer of natural, artisan sourdough breads has teamed up with the UK’s biggest network of milkmen to deliver its newly launched 1.1kg sliced Seeded Sourdough to over 500,000 homes across the country to capitalise on sourdough’s popularity...

General Mills finds more families report eating breakfast together

General Mills finds more families report eating breakfast together

By Mary Ellen Shoup

Three quarters of families with school-aged children now report being able to spend more time together eating at the breakfast table, promoting an uptick in cereal consumption, according to a new survey commissioned by General Mills Big G cereals.

Lebanon is expected to run out of bread in 2½ weeks. Pics: GettyImages/alefbet/Mo Semsem

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Humanitarian aid scrambles to circumvent Lebanon’s bread crisis

By Gill Hyslop

The head of the United Nations’ food agency said the beleaguered country – which is battling economic and political woes, the COVID-19 pandemic and a major blast that tore through its capital city – could run out of bread in about 2½ weeks.

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