08-Feb-2012 - Leading manufacturers Britvic and Nestlé have started recruiting for their 2012 apprenticeship programmes in a bid to support the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) pledge to double the number of industry trainees by the end of the year.
30-Jan-2012 - Professor Judy Buttriss knew very early in her career that nutrition was where her heart lay. But these days, as director general of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), it's not just nutrition research that puts demands on her time. She has to juggle the competing duties of running an organisation dedicated to disseminating sound nutritional information to a world awash with uninformed comment and fad diets much of it emanating from self-appointed celebrity 'experts' and tabloids in search of sensationalist headlines.
30-Jan-2012 - The Paramount 21 story started for me 10 years ago when I was invited down to its former site in Brixham, Devon (I was working for a Marks & Spencer supplier at the time).
30-Jan-2012 - The evergreen Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University London, has never been afraid to rattle cages and elicit strong reactions.
30-Jan-2012 - Britain's food manufacturing sector is facing a potential skills crisis, with an ageing workforce and an image problem that is putting young people off choosing food and drink as a career.
13-Jan-2012 - Confectionery firm Ferrero Group has appointed Pieraldo Oldano as the new md of Ferrero UK & Ireland.
01-Jan-2012 - The policing of food industry employment standards could suffer if the Gangmasters Licensing Authority's (GLA's) remit widens while its budget is cut, as is feared.
01-Jan-2012 - Huw Griffiths tells Rod Addy how he took Besmoke from farmers' market to supermarket
01-Jan-2012 - Shadow minister for public health Diane Abbott is no friend of the food industry or the coalition government's health policy. Reports Rick Pendrous
01-Jan-2012 - Hartpury College will launch a part-time higher level study skills programme for food industry staff at Foodex 2012, at the NEC in Birmingham from March 25-27.
05-Dec-2011 - Sponsored by: Improve/ The National Skills Academ Shortlisted: Greencore Grocery, Nom Dairy UK, Tulip and Weetabix
05-Dec-2011 - Sponsored by: Kuwait Petroleum International Lubricants UK This award goes to the person who has made the biggest contribution to the sector over the year - by transforming his or her business or by raising the profile of the sector. The winner was selected in a poll of shortlisted candidates on Foodmanufacture.co.uk.
05-Dec-2011 - Details emerged last month of action the food and drink industry is taking to address the impending skills shortage. A staggering 137,000 new recruits are needed to replace people who will be retiring over the next five years. This represents around 34% of the total workforce in the sector in the UK.
05-Dec-2011 - Hugh Darrington, who spent more than 40 years working in the food trade press - including 23 years as editor of Food Manufacture and six years as editor of International Food Ingredients - has spoken candidly about the people, the companies, the products, the public relations in his new autobiography Strawberries to the moon.
05-Dec-2011 - We serve the whole of Great Britain from here and will be looking at a significant uplift in our volume more than 20% to 51M cases next year. It will be the first time our output will have been above 50M cases. The plant will have the capability to produce 75M cases by 2014.
05-Dec-2011 - The Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) is asking for food manufacturers’ help to survey the needs of the 100,000 technicians known to be working in the food sector.
23-Nov-2011 - Missed the food manufacturing industry oscars? Here's a flavour of the big night caught in pictures. Our special photogallery features some of the winners who collected prizes at the Food Manufacturing Industry Excellence Awards.
21-Nov-2011 - Fresh and convenience food producer Kerry Foods has won an award for the language training it offers employees at its Attleborough site in Norfolk.
18-Nov-2011 - More than 450 top industry executives gathered in London recently for the Food Manufacturing Excellence awards. Here’s a taste of the big night caught on film.
16-Nov-2011 - Mark Edwards, Weetabix business unit operations manager, scooped the top award at the 2011 Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards last week.
10-Nov-2011 - More than 450 leading food and drink industry executives gathered in central London this week for the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards. Here, we bring you a flavour of the best Twitter comments from our stellar evening.
07-Nov-2011 - Rumours of a fat tax in the UK to tackle obesity, stirred up by the media on the strength (or weakness) of a throwaway remark by the Prime Minister, have been firmly kicked into touch.
01-Nov-2011 - The business started as a hobby in my kitchen when I was living in Lytham St Annes.
01-Nov-2011 - Patrick Coveney, Greencore's chief executive, claims his experiences on the rugby field have helped him formulate his approach to business and heading up the own-label chilled foods firm. That, and almost 10 years with management consultancy McKinsey & Company, where he further honed his skills after completing his doctorate at Oxford in 1996.
01-Nov-2011 - There is just one week to go before the stellar evening when food and drink manufacturers celebrate the best of the best at the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards.