17-Nov-2004 - MI5 is hunting food industry experts for its National Security Advice Centre, which provides counter-terrorism expertise.The spooks are looking for people probably with a scientific...
17-Nov-2004 - Some manufacturers may have to revise testing procedures following approval by the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union...
17-Nov-2004 - Firms fear being forced to limit storage because of new guidance
06-Oct-2004 - United Biscuits blamed tough conditions in the UK for a fall in profit in the first half of 2004 to £64.7m from £68m a year...
06-Oct-2004 - Diageo's premium drinks sales and operating profit in the year to June 30 were almost unchanged on the previous year at £8.9bn and £1.9bn respectively.It...
06-Oct-2004 - Food and drink firms can check out IT systems from SSI, Nematron, Imscan, Muddy Boots Software, Claricom and other firms at a free event on...
06-Oct-2004 - Morrison has sold Tesco 10 of the 52 Safeway stores which it had to shed in order to meet Office of Fair Trading conditions for...
06-Oct-2004 - SirOn return to the sharp end of food technical management after a break of several years I have been struck by how little progress has...
06-Oct-2004 - Sainsbury chairman Sir Peter Davis will receive £2.6m compensation for share options and £500,000 in salary, plus pension contributions and life assurance cover until July...
06-Oct-2004 - New focus on non-retail food markets follows tough six months
06-Oct-2004 - SirYour article on traceability (Food Manufacture September 2004, p45) highlights that the objective is to allow the competent authority to identify the source and destination...
06-Oct-2004 - Shire Foods, which makes pasties, sausage rolls and Football's Famous chicken balti pies, is to quadruple its manufacturing capacity with a £4.5m relocation from Warwick...
06-Oct-2004 - Mediterranean sweets producer Patchi of London has won an £18,000 contract to send 6,000 boxes of confectionery to France.The order was secured with help from...
06-Oct-2004 - Crispbread producer Ryvita is considering expanding the processing and packaging capacity at its factory in Bredbury near Stockport.It has given Lorien Engineering Solutions a design...
06-Oct-2004 - Uniq Prepared Foods has won £20m of annual contracts for desserts, salads and sandwiches in the six months to September 25, said the parent group....
06-Oct-2004 - Northern Foods said that more strategic changes could not be ruled out following a decision to restructure the company and move its headquarters from Hull...
06-Oct-2004 - The government's Veterinary Residues Committee (VRC) is likely to ask for extra money to monitor imported foods for traces of veterinary medicines and other environmental...
06-Oct-2004 - Icelandic investment group Baugur claimed that it had not decided what it would do with the Big Food Group (BFG), which owns retailer Iceland and...
06-Oct-2004 - A claimed lack of collaboration by food science and technology employers and secondary, further and higher education professionals will be debated at an Institute of...
06-Oct-2004 - Farmer-owned dairy admits to being one of the worst payers
06-Oct-2004 - The RSPCA launched an advertising campaign for tighter rules on chicken production to address welfare concerns and to persuade shoppers to buy higher welfare food....
06-Oct-2004 - Most small manufacturers will find themselves on the wrong side of the law this month, under the new Disability Discrimination Act.According to a Bibby Financial...
06-Oct-2004 - Further consolidation can be expected among logistics firms and hauliers, claimed the boss of ACR Logistics, formerly known as Hays.ACR wants to make acquisitions on...
06-Oct-2004 - The Food Standards Agency chairman Sir John Krebs and food safety critic Professor Hugh Pennington are among nominees for the first special achievement award by...
06-Oct-2004 - Catering supplier Brakes has acquired the chilled distribution division of troubled Peter's Food Service, a principal supplier to the Compass Group.Brakes, which already supplies Compass...