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Top food manufacturing news of 2011 - in pictures

By Mike Stones, 21-Dec-2011

Hatches, matches and dispatches dominated the food manufacturing news in 2011. In the second of our two-part series, we showcase the most five most popular news articles of the year published on FoodManufacture.co.uk.

Business takeovers captured our headlines over the past year. Food giant Premier Foods continued to make the headlines along with Greencore, Northern Foods, 2 Sisters and many others.

Click on the photogallery to discover which were the five most popular articles and read the background behind the top stories. We also report what happened next. The most popular news articles of the year were measured by page views.

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