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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
11-May-2005 - Men's club culture means firms are missing out on women's skills
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...
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...
11-May-2005 - Men's club culture means firms are missing out on women's skills
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
11-May-2005 - Outright ban on all synthetic dyes could prove the only answer
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...
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...
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...
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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