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Annabel Karmel reveals global food ambitions

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

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Bakkavör makes long service awards

30-Sep-2011 - Food group Bakkavör's has given 66 employees in its Fresh Meals Solutions division long service awards.

Britain’s got (packaging and processing) talent

29-Sep-2011 - Nicola Swann, from Videojet Technologies, has triumphed in the PPMA Show's Ones to Watch awards. The awards recognise promising under 35-year-olds who have made an outstanding contribution to the UK packaging and processing machinery industry.

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Peak achievement near for food industry execs

29-Sep-2011 - A team of 10 UK food and drink industry executives will climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, at midnight tonight to raise money for the charity FARM-Africa.

FSA refuses to comment after board member resigns

28-Sep-2011 - The FSA says it plans to give no further updates on the case of its board member Dr David Cameron, following the announcement of his resignation on September 1.

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Regional food agency boss steps down

20-Sep-2011 - The regional agency promoting Yorkshire’s food businesses is searching for a new ceo to replace Jonathan Knight who will leave his role before the end of the year.

Food Manufacture Personality of the Year 2011

19-Sep-2011 - FoodManufacture.co.uk and our sister magazine, Food Manufacture need your help to select the entrepreneur who best deserves the title 2011 Food Personality of the Year .

Plans to promote the food industry 'X factor'

16-Sep-2011 - Food companies are being urged to help tackle an “image problem,” which is preventing young people from choosing to make a career in the sector.

Sponsoring students could help fill food skills gap

13-Sep-2011 - The UK food industry should remedy its chronic skills shortage by sponsoring more university students. Jon Poole, chief executive of the Institute of Food Science & Technology, said the move would benefit companies and students alike.

City agog for views of new Premier Foods' ceo

12-Sep-2011 - The City is on tenterhooks as its waits for word from Premier Foods’ new CEO Michael Clarke.

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Meet the Master Baker

01-Sep-2011 - Reconciling retailers' expectations of a constant flow of exciting new products with the constraints of production lines has been a dilemma for plant bakers for many years.

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Baby place

01-Sep-2011 - Farley's founded a baker's shop in Plymouth in the 1850s. In the 1880s it began making rusks. In 1962, Glaxo established the Kendal factory alongside the Milk Marketing Board's creamery. It bought the Farley's brand in 1968 and in 1976 consolidated its food business as Farley Health Products, which was bought by Boots 10 years later. In 1990 the Plymouth factory was closed, cereals were moved to Kendal and rusks were co-packed. Then in 1994, Heinz bought Farley's from Boots.

New talent continues makeover for Premier

01-Sep-2011 - Changes at the top of the UK's biggest food manufacturer, Premier Foods, continue apace as Ian Deste, formerly with Coca-Cola Enterprises, has been appointed group sales director. Deste replaces Ian York, who is to leave at the end of the year.

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Macphie appoints new sales and marketing director

01-Sep-2011 - Food ingredients manufacturer, Macphie has appointed Andrew Underwood as its new sales and marketing director.

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Bread company fined £1 after fatal fall accident

31-Aug-2011 - Ovenpride Wholesale, a Barnet-based bread company, has been fined £1 after a man died of injuries following a fall from a faulty stepladder.

Food Manufacture Food Personality of the Year

31-Aug-2011 - Help! We need your support to select a charismatic winner for the 2011 Food Manufacture Food Personality of the Year award.

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Graham’s The Family Dairy has new operations director

26-Aug-2011 - Scotland’s largest independent dairy company, Graham’s The Family Dairy has appointed Shaun Dorrian to the role of operations director.

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Heinz boss explains Kendal culture of 'continuous improvement'

23-Aug-2011 - Damian Killen, factory manager at the Heinz (UK) baby food plant at Kendal in the Lake District, explains to FoodManufacture.co.uk what the company’s Global Performance System has meant for staff.

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Premier Foods appoints new sales director

23-Aug-2011 - Premier Foods has appointed Ian Deste as group sales director, to replace outgoing incumbent Ian York who leaves the business at the end of this year.

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Steve's new venture no Gamble

19-Aug-2011 - Stephen Gamble, the md of the defunct supermarket supplier Steve's Cakes has re-emerged at the helm of the new company Gamble Foods.

Food Manufacture Personality of the Year 2011

19-Aug-2011 - Wanted: An inspirational and charismatic winner for the 2011 Food Manufacture Personality of the Year award. We want you to help us find the individual who has done the most to raise the profile of UK food and drink manufacturing during the past year.

Bendicks Winchester redundancies start

19-Aug-2011 - Storck has started making redundancies as it prepares to close its Bendicks manufacturing operation in Winchester.

Vion fined £100,000 over forklift death

19-Aug-2011 - Vion Food Scotland has been fined £100,000 following the death of a worker who was crushed by a badly loaded forklift truck.

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Premier Foods sales director York departs

12-Aug-2011 - Premier Foods group sales director Ian York will leave the company at the end of the year to pursue "other business interests", a spokesman has confirmed to FoodManufacture.co.uk.

Burton’s Foods staff reject union-backed pay deal

12-Aug-2011 - A pay dispute at Burton’s Foods site in Blackpool has reached stalemate, after staff rejected a pay offer recommended by union bosses.

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