Rebranding brings cheer to beer

27-Feb-2012 - Oxfordshire-based brewery Loddon has undergone a complete rebranding exercise with the assistance of brand and packaging design consultancy We Are Pure.

Freeze out traditional winemaking culture

27-Feb-2012 - Chr Hansen has launched a product designed to enable winemakers to manage malolactic fermentation in high-pH, high-alcohol wines without producing biogenic amines such as histamine during fermentation.

Drink to new starch solution for low-cost pulp

27-Feb-2012 - National Starch Food Innovation is promoting the use of its functional starch-based solution Precisa Pulp 02 can in a variety of juice bases, including peach, apricot guava, pear, and mango. The goal is to aid the creation of cost-optimised beverages that meet consumer demand for exotic juice drinks.

Raise your glass to flower power

27-Feb-2012 - Innova Market Insights has reported an increased number of global food and drink launches that feature floral ingredients. In the first 10 months of 2011, such launches rose by 7% – compared with the same period in 2010 – to a number that is now over four times the level recorded five years previously.

Drink to instant powder colour

27-Feb-2012 - Responding to a growing trend in the international beverage industry, Chr Hansen has launched I-Colors: a range of instant natural colours for powder soft drinks in single-shot sleeves.

Carlsberg to build £20M bottling plant creating 60 jobs

27-Feb-2012 - Carlsberg UK is to build a £20M bottling plant at its Northampton brewery, which will create 60 new jobs

Coca-Cola promotions to target individuals

27-Feb-2012 - Retail promotions will become far more focused on individual shoppers than they are now thanks to new oportunities created by smart phone technologies, according to the md of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE).

Kraft cuts food manufacturing waste by half

20-Feb-2012 - Kraft Foods has cut manufacturing waste by half across its global business over the past seven years.

News in brief

PM supports minimum price on alcohol

17-Feb-2012 - Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged his support for a minimum alcohol price.

Apprenticeships key to Scottish food and drink firms’ growth

15-Feb-2012 - Apprenticeships are the key to maintaining the competitive advantage of Scottish food and drink firms, according to industry experts.

Nettle beer brewer stung in tax battle

13-Feb-2012 - A Cornish microbrewery is battling tax inspectors for survival as they try to recoup £10,000 of backdated revenue from it for allegedly wrongly selling one of its creations as a beer.

New partners in bio-based bottles

10-Feb-2012 - Coca-Cola is partnering Dutch-based technology firm Avantium in the production of bottles made from an, as yet, uncommercialised bio-based polyester.

Food and drink to help Scots exports reach £12.5bn

10-Feb-2012 - Total Scottish exports will reach £12.5bn within five years, fuelled partly by soaring food and drink sales to the Middle East, predicts the Scottish government.

Diageo export success tough to follow for UK firms

09-Feb-2012 - Smirnoff manufacturer Diageo’s recent export success will be a tough act to follow for UK firms, according to city analysts, after the drinks giant revealed that 40% of its sales now come from emerging markets.

Fizzy drinks and chocolate: a £196M hit with consumers

06-Feb-2012 - Canned cola, canned sports drinks and chocolate confectionery are the fastest growing grocery categories, worth an addition £196M in sales last year compared with 2010, said market research firm SymphonyIRI Group.

How to analyse arsenic in apple juice

30-Jan-2012 - Analytical equipment has been developed for detecting arsenic contamination in apple juice. This coincides with recent consumer concern about elevated levels of arsenic found in juices in the US.

Nestlé to close 'high value' Hayes coffee plant by 2014

30-Jan-2012 - Nestlé's decision to close its Hayes coffee plant by 2014 and transfer production to Tutbury in Derbyshire, follows hot on the heels of news that it planned to close its HQ in Croydon and move to Gatwick by the end of 2012.

News in brief

Pepsi’s fizzy growth boosts Britvic results

25-Jan-2012 - A strong performance from its UK carbonates division, lead by “substantial” Pepsi share gain, has boosted revenues at soft drinks manufacturer Britvic for the all-important Christmas period, according to city analysts.

Nestlé's £200M restructure of UK coffee factories

16-Jan-2012 - Nestlé UK today unveiled proposals for a further £200M extension to its Nescafé factory in Tutbury, Derbyshire.

Union 'disgusted' by job cuts at Tradeteam plant

13-Jan-2012 - Drink distributor Tradeteam's decision to cut 128 jobs at its Hams Hall, Warwickshire plant has left employees “disgusted”, according to Unite the union.

General Mills launches new global innovation technology

09-Jan-2012 - General Mills has expanded its worldwide open innovation programme with the launch of new technologies to allow it to collaborate with external organisations that can help it to market its product range online.

News in brief

Nichols brands outperform soft drinks market

06-Jan-2012 - Soft drinks supplier Nichols reported sales up 18% in 2011 compared with 2010, adding that its brands, which include Vimto, had outperformed UK soft drinks as a whole.

Food industry confident of meeting Olympic challenge

06-Jan-2012 - Food and drink manufacturers are predicting that the London 2012 Olympics will give the industry a big boost – provided effective plans are put in place.

Soft drink firms deny ‘dodgy’ marketing claims

03-Jan-2012 - The British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) has rejected the Children’s Food Campaign’s (CFC) decision to include it in a report of firms that allegedly made the “dodgiest” junk food claims of 2011.