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Pumping up sales

04-Mar-2013 - Modern kit will brew more success, Oliver Robinson tells Gary Scattergood

Food sector must do more to tackle obesity

04-Mar-2013 - More companies – food manufacturers and foodservice outlets – need to sign up to the government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) Food Network (FN), if the initiative is to make a real difference in helping to stem the rising tide of obesity in the UK, its chair has warned.

£40k fine after workers take flight in Famous Grouse fire

28-Feb-2013 - The Edrington Group – the maker of Famous Grouse whisky – has been ordered to pay a £40,000 fine, after safety breaches forced two workers to flee a warehouse fire.

Slash VAT for on-trade beer sales to 5% to boost growth: brewer

28-Feb-2013 - The government should cap VAT for beers sales in licensed premises at 5% in order to boost trade and “create thousands of jobs”.

Nestlé recruiting to fill 400 manufacturing jobs

20-Feb-2013 - Nestlé has started recruiting for the 400 jobs created by the £110M expansion of its coffee manufacturing facility in Tutbury, Derbyshire.

Fizzy drinks tax plan under fire from industry and advertisers

18-Feb-2013 - Calls for a tax on fizzy drinks and a TV watershed for advertising high fat foods from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC) have been slammed by the soft drinks industry and advertising representatives.

Glass stands its ground against its plastic rivals

11-Feb-2013 - New research suggests that, although glass packaging will face fierce competition from other materials over the next decade, it is already retaking ground lost in some categories and showing stubborn resistance in others.

Global award for plastic milk bottle

07-Feb-2013 - A 'next generation' plastic milk bottle called Infini has won international accolade for Milton Keynes-based Nampak Plastics.

Probiotics in new shelf-stable format for non-refrigerated drinks

07-Feb-2013 - An alliance between Chr Hansen and Fresh Beverages International will enable manufacturers of non-refrigerated beverages to add probiotics to their drinks.

Coca-Cola gives vitamin water a stevia makeover

07-Feb-2013 - Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has given its Glacéau Vitaminwater brand a stevia-based makeover

Soft drinks industry rejects calls for budget sugar tax

29-Jan-2013 - Food and drink manufacturers have rejected calls from the campaign group Sustain for the chancellor to introduce a duty on sugary drinks at the next Budget.

Killer vodka manufacturers jailed

28-Jan-2013 - Three men have been jailed for manufacturing illegal and potentially fatal vodka using industrial alcohol that is normally used in antifreeze and cleaning fluids.

News in brief

Britvic’s merger with AG Barr delayed

14-Jan-2013 - Britvic’s merger with AG Barr has been delayed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which extended its timetable for a decision today (January 14).

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Framptons to create at least 30 new jobs in Somerset

07-Jan-2013 - Liquid food and drink processor and packager Framptons is to create at least 30 jobs at its site in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.

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Nichols soft drinks reports strong sales growth

07-Jan-2013 - Soft drinks firm Nichols has outperformed the market with total sales up by 9% to £108M for the year ended 31 December 2012, according to its pre-close trading statement.

Stevia sweetener with zero calories in use

02-Jan-2013 - Global ingredients manufacturer Tate & Lyle claims to have formulated a fizzy cola drink that delivers a 50% calorie reduction using a natural origin sweetener. The key ingredient used was Tasteva, a stevia-based sweetener developed by Tate & Lyle.

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Don’t make a food manufacturing drama out of a crisis

17-Dec-2012 - There were 393 product recalls last year, 82 (20%) of which were food and drug related, according to the website www.recalluk.com . But this figure is not a true representation as a large proportion of recalls occur before product distribution.

Premier Foods acquisition boosts Princes sales to £1.51bn

17-Dec-2012 - The acquisition of Premier Foods’ East Anglian canning business has helped to boost the sales figures growth of food and drink manufacturer Princes by 28%, according to figures filed at Companies House last week (December 12).

Top 10 US adult beverage trends for 2013

12-Dec-2012 - Sweet wines, high-class beers and ‘next level’ ciders are the top three adult drink trends predicted by US food and drink consultancy Technomic.

AG Barr plans for ‘highly competitive Christmas’

10-Dec-2012 - Irn-Bru maker AG Barr has announced revenue up by 9% for the 18 weeks to December 1, as the firm prepares for a “highly competitive” Christmas market.

Beverage Manufacturing Company of the Year

04-Dec-2012 - Winner: Britvic Soft Drinks

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Cheers to new ways

04-Dec-2012 - Modern technologycould provide cheaper ways to brew beer, reports Laurence Gibbons

Barr Britvic Soft Drinks to get new facility in Milton Keynes

04-Dec-2012 - Work is now well underway on soft drinks manufacturer AG Barr's new £41M manufacturing and logistics facility being built by Gazeley at its Magna Park site in Milton Keynes.

Alcohol minimum pricing ‘could be illegal’ under EU law

28-Nov-2012 - Government plans to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol in England and Wales could be illegal under EU law, according to the trade group, the Wine and Spirit Trade Association.