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The Artful Baker’s biscotti range Warburtons has backed biscuit manufacturer The Artful Baker with a six-figure investment as part of the Batch Ventures innovation fund. It is the first of several investments that the 50:50 joint venture with independent business accelerator Mission Ventures expects to make this year, it said. Batch Ventures was set up last year to back businesses producing innovative bakery products. It combines equity funding together with hands-on support from successful entrepreneurs and industry professionals, it added. It takes a minority stake-holding in businesses i...

British Baker looks back on some more stories making the headlines in the most extraordinary year in living memory. Face coverings in shops became mandatory in July, while August and September saw factories such as Greencore hit by Covid-19 and a plan to minimise job losses at Greggs. Here’s how the next three months panned out for the baking industry:   July The Food & Drink Federation (FDF) claimed that the government ban on advertising and promoting ‘unhealthy’ food is unlikely to combat obesity. A range of sweeping measures stating the ‘urgency’ of tackling the obesity time bo...