12-Oct-2011 - Major investment is even more important during tough times than easy ones, according to Steve Adams, Coca-Cola Enterprise’s operations director at Sidcup.
12-Oct-2011 - The UK should ban illegal eggs produced from foreign battery-caged hens, warns an independent report from the European Food and Farming Partnerships (EFFP).
12-Oct-2011 - Shoppers have overwhelmingly rejected the re-engineering of foods to keep prices down as the cost of ingredients rises, according to the results of a survey conducted by the grocery think tank IGD.
10-Oct-2011 - Stronger sales, rising reputation and technological innovation are three reasons for UK food and drink manufacturers to feel optimistic this autumn, Chris Buxton, ceo of the Processing and Packaging Machinery Association (PPMA ), tells FoodManufacture.co.uk.
10-Oct-2011 - Adams Foods is launching a new cheese brand called Mu in partnership with retail giant Tesco less than a month after a devastating blaze wrecked its cheese warehouse at Wincanton Business Park, Somerset.
06-Oct-2011 - Pizza cheese producer CK Foods is constructing a new 2,787m2 food manufacturing plant in Bradford, which is expected to create 40 jobs.
05-Oct-2011 - Work on a £1.6M extension to Hull-based Jackson’s Bakery is due to be completed in December this year.
04-Oct-2011 - UK food manufacturing, packaging and processing firms should appeal to the iPod generation to attract the next generation of young talent, according to the PPMA.
04-Oct-2011 - Continental European applications of Rexam’s hybrid Fusion aluminium can-bottle in beers, wines and other key categories have, so far, not been matched by UK brand owners. But the pack is already in use in niche areas including energy and beauty drinks.
03-Oct-2011 - An innovative robot handling system has been developed for fish and shellfish, which claims to reduce giveaway by 10-12%.
03-Oct-2011 - Energy density reduction must play a bigger part in food businesses' nutrition strategy and become a key consideration in the nutrition guidelines they develop, according to the food and drink grocery think tank IGD.
03-Oct-2011 - Müller has been working with OCS checkweighers to customise X-ray machines for its dairy in Market Drayton, Shropshire.
03-Oct-2011 - Ishida Europe says its enhanced Weigh-batcher can easily double fresh meat and poultry weighing speeds while maintaining good in-tray presentation for retail.
03-Oct-2011 - Baker Perkins has enhanced the efficiency of its microfilm confectionery cooker.
03-Oct-2011 - Pork Farms has enhanced its temperature monitoring with the 8146 temperature probe from Digitron Instrumentation.
03-Oct-2011 - Chilled convenience manufacturer Samworth Brothers is working to cut the levels of salt and saturated fat in its food products, despite not making a pledge to do so under the government's Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD).
03-Oct-2011 - Chilling and freezing specialist GEA Eurotek has reported "a bumper serving of order wins", which it attributes to China and India's increasing appetite for French fries.
03-Oct-2011 - Yearsley Group, one of the UK's largest cold storage and distribution providers, has installed solar panels at two of its cold stores in England in a project that has cost the firm £2.2M.
03-Oct-2011 - Tillery Valley, the national meal provider to the healthcare, education and local authority sectors, was one of the first companies in Wales to support the recent opening of the national food poverty and food re-distribution charity FareShare's Cardiff depot by providing both food and training assistance.
03-Oct-2011 - Bringing yourself up to speed with the latest thinking in automation and robotics food and drink manufacture will be a bit easier and cheaper, following the launch of a new novel e-learning package.
03-Oct-2011 - Britain's food and drink processors are failing to embrace the improved operational efficiencies provided by 'middleware' such as manufacturing executions systems (MES), says a leading vendor in the field.
03-Oct-2011 - The UK’s second high-pressure processed (HPP) juice has been introduced with an exclusive retail launch through Waitrose recently.
03-Oct-2011 - The number of agency workers hired by the food industry is expected to dip with the arrival of new labour regulations that come into force this week.
03-Oct-2011 - The UK’s second largest poultry supplier is conducting a review of its organic chicken business which could result in it exiting the sector.
30-Sep-2011 - Children's food guru Annabel Karmel has outlined plans for a global expansion of her food retail business to FoodManufacture.co.uk