NEWS

• Uniq plc has won an increased share of M&S’s sandwich business, a result of the retailer’s decision to cut costs and consolidate its sandwich supply base. Additional sandwich business is also believed to have gone to Northern Foods’ Gunstones Bakery. Hain Celestial, its third supplier, has lost out.
• The future of the ex-Gibsons Devizes sandwich factory is in doubt. Owner Ultimate Foods says the site is not viable as a production unit in its current form in the long-term, after conducting “a careful analysis of the business operation.
• Sandwich manufacturers around the country are likely to be double-checking their workers’ documentation after ten agency staff were arrested at Buckingham Foods’ Milton Keynes factory on suspicion of working without entitlement.

COMMENT

• Jesper Toft on the “shortcomings” of the recent Budget.

SANDWICH DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

• All the results of the last regional heats in the run-up to the final.

PROFILE

• Richard Brown, Tasties’ MD, on a marathon challenge with a difference

DAY IN THE LIFE OF

• Nigel Upson, director of About Foods.

INDEPENDENT SANDWICH BAR ADVICE

• Jill Willis, Taste UK, offers some sound advice from her new book for sandwich and coffee bars.