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Too many signposts lead consumers on road to nowhere, warns FSA

23-May-2005 - Retailers and manufacturers won’t do shoppers any favours if they all roll out proprietary front-of-pack nutritional ‘signposting’ labels, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned.Speaking...

Product changeover times targeted for reduction

23-May-2005 - Time wasted during the changeover from making one food product to another on the same production line could be slashed, following the introduction of a...

Own-label on a small scale

23-May-2005 - A new service to enable medium-sized retailers to offer own-label ranges of sandwiches has been set up by Freshway Foods.The Wolverhampton-based sandwich manufacturer, which already...

Meat processors targeted for greenhouse gases

23-May-2005 - Food contributes almost one-third of Europe's total global warming potential (GWP), with meat and meat products having the highest environmental impact, according to a new...

North for Northern

11-May-2005 - Northern Foods has moved its head office from Hull to the Thorpe business park in Leeds.The new site includes a demonstration kitchen and 60 desks...

Brain food

11-May-2005 - Dried fruit and nut producer Sundora Foods has opened a learning centre at its Pocklington headquarters to help staff improve their skills and gain qualifications.Courses...

Knowledge is power

11-May-2005 - The Food Chain Centre has launched an academy providing access to data about the shopping habits of a million consumers from Dunnhumby, the marketing consultancy...

New Arla boss

11-May-2005 - Dairy group Arla Foods UK has appointed Tim Smith chief executive to succeed the retiring Neil Davidson on June 1.Smith has been executive director for...

Hygiene training

11-May-2005 - The industry's five sector skills councils have formed a food chain skills group.Its first task will be to establish what training companies need to carry...

LETTERS You're sitting on a big corporate asset

11-May-2005 - SirIncreasing legislation, consumer concerns and growing pressure from major retailers mean that companies can no longer afford to sit back and ignore radio frequency identification...

Centura streamlines

11-May-2005 - RHM subsidiary Centura Foods, which makes Sharwood, Bisto, Paxo and Robertson products, is to close three depots, at Salford, Droylsden and Middlewich.It will consolidate warehousing...

Food firms accused of keeping the best jobs for the boys

11-May-2005 - Men's club culture means firms are missing out on women's skills

Grampian staff threaten pensions walkout

11-May-2005 - Grampian Country Food has entered a critical stage in talks to avert strike action. The threatened walkouts follow Grampian's decision to end final salary pension...

IFST president

11-May-2005 - The Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) has elected Jack Pearce, emeritus professor of food science at Queen's University Belfast, as its president.He has...

Food firms accused of keeping all the best jobs for the boys

11-May-2005 - Men's club culture means firms are missing out on women's skills

Certain choice

11-May-2005 - Organic certification company Soil Association Certification (SA Cert) has appointed Robert Duxbury as certification director.Duxbury spent 24 years at Sainsbury where he was technical product...

Whitty's away

11-May-2005 - Lord Whitty will not continue as food minister if Labour is re-elected on May 5, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed.Meanwhile,...

Sugar daddy may try to add some sauce to the ABF mix

11-May-2005 - Associated British Foods (ABF) has given its strongest hint yet that HP Foods is on its shopping list of companies that could reduce its reliance...

Ask auntie Beeb

11-May-2005 - If you have a workforce that spends more time on internal wrangling than taking on the competition, the BBC is offering to bring in motivational...

Tooling up

11-May-2005 - The food and drink sector skills council Improve has launched an online career planning tool to help school and college leavers learn more about the...

Para Red scare may show spice chain is too complex to police

11-May-2005 - Outright ban on all synthetic dyes could prove the only answer

Log on for latest food sector news

11-May-2005 - Food Manufacture will launch a free fortnightly emailed news alert from May 9.The magazine's strengthened team of specialist journalists will provide unique analyses and reports...

Sugar merger

11-May-2005 - Sugar company Napier Brown Foods (NBF) is moving sugar merchant James Budgett Sugars (JBS) into its London office with the loss of 20 jobs.JBS's Ledbury...

Not so splendid

11-May-2005 - Goldman Sachs analyst Vishnu Gopal has marked down Tate & Lyle's (T&L) shares because generic rivals to its flagship Splenda sucralose sweetener will hit the...

Rolling improvement

11-May-2005 - Tesco has seen a 10% rise in sales of chilled pizzas and a 6% rise in sales of pre-packed cakes after rolling out shelf-ready packaging...

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