Horsemeat: learning the lessons of an avoidable crisis
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Morrisons strikes online grocery deal with Ocado
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Supermarket Morrisons has agreed a partnership with the online distribution business Ocado – including the acquisition of its distribution centre – in a deal that will see deliveries to customers start by January 2014. Related news |
Horsemeat webinar
Four ways horsemeat crisis will benefit UK food industry
The horsemeat crisis is bringing four benefits to the UK food industry, despite all the adverse publicity that followed in its wake, said speakers at Food Manufacture’s webinar – Horsemeat, learning the lessons of an avoidable crisis – held yesterday (May 16).
Food manufacturers get pensions lifeline
Food companies struggling to address deficits in their pension funds have been thrown a lifeline by the government appointed watch-dog that oversees company pension schemes.
Vitafoods 2013
Personalised nutrition demand to bring big opportunities
The key business challenges for food firms whose products aid disease management are overcoming the “huge disconnect” between the number of consumers who claim to be interested in them and the number who actually purchase them, while also making inroads into the increasing demand for “personalised products”.
Food manufacturers await bank compensation
Own-label food manufacturers, meat processing firms and bakery ingredients companies are among 40,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still awaiting compensation after some banks mis-sold loan ‘protection’ products which proved both damaging and difficult to exit.
Guest article
Top tips on crisis management in the food industry
Do you remember when sales of Perrier Water were hit in 1990 by traces of carcinogenic benzene found in the bottles? The company had to withdraw 160M bottles worldwide at a cost of £150M and saw sales tumble for four years. Or when Heinz had to withdraw baby food worth...
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