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
30-Sep-2011 - Food group Bakkavör's has given 66 employees in its Fresh Meals Solutions division long service awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
12-Sep-2011 - The City is on tenterhooks as its waits for word from Premier Foods’ new CEO Michael Clarke.
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.
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.
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.
01-Sep-2011 - Food ingredients manufacturer, Macphie has appointed Andrew Underwood as its new sales and marketing director.
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.
31-Aug-2011 - Help! We need your support to select a charismatic winner for the 2011 Food Manufacture Food Personality of the Year award.
26-Aug-2011 - Scotland’s largest independent dairy company, Graham’s The Family Dairy has appointed Shaun Dorrian to the role of operations director.
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.
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.
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.
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.
19-Aug-2011 - Storck has started making redundancies as it prepares to close its Bendicks manufacturing operation in Winchester.
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.
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.
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.