Exeter Magistrates have ordered St Austell Brewery to pay nearly £19,000 in fines and costs after workers refurbishing a Devon pub were exposed to deadly asbestos dust without adequate protection.
Feeding rising global numbers of people who are overweight places the same strain on world resources as would an additional 1bn mouths, warn researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The West Midlands brewery Holden’s is planning major expansion to meet Japanese demand for exports of British real ale. The growth is set to create 10 jobs.
Shadow public health minister, Diane Abbott has slammed the coalition’s “failing” health policy and called for a move to put public health before big business.
Drinks giant Diageo’s plan to invest £1bn in Scotch whisky production, designed “to seize the opportunity for global growth” will create 100s of jobs, according to the firm.
Craft brewery Frederic Robinson has refitted its brewhouse at a cost of £5M to enable the efficient production of a wide range of beers in small batches.
British drinks giant Diageo has acquired Brazil’s leading premium cachaca brand, Ypioca, as part of its continuing strategy to expand in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
A damning report on dodgy supermarket pricing tactics that conned shoppers into thinking they were getting a better deal than they were has prompted apologies from the UK’s biggest retailers.
As UK food and drink manufacturers search for ways to reduce packaging and carbon footprints, a new drinks launch in Thailand could point the way ahead.
The Scottish government’s plans to set a minimum price for alcohol of 50p per unit will avoid 60 deaths in its first year of operation and 300 after 10 years, according to Sheffield University’s Alcohol Research Group.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has officially opened a £15M joint-venture recycling facility that will create 30 jobs and ensure the firm achieves its end-of-year target for recycled plastic.
Beverage brands eager to have their cake and eat it are increasing their use of full-length, limited- edition shrink sleeves alongside established branding on more traditional, labelled bottles.
Florida-based Cott Beverages plans to expand production at Scottish drinks firm Sangs, which it bought out of administration last month for an undisclosed sum.
Food and drink manufacturers are missing out on recruiting young talent by failing to promote their industry in schools and colleges, Nestlé apprentice Sam Richards told the HR Forum at trade event Foodex, staged at the NEC.
Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond has opened a new £4M bottling facility at Tennent Caledonian’s Wellpark brewery in Glasgow that will enable the brewer to meet its export targets.
As the economy continues to impact on consumers throughout 2012, soft drinks manufacturers will have to boost innovation to offset increased pressure, according to Britvic boss Paul Moody.
Senior soft drink executives have poured scorn on continued EU pressure to roll out taxes on sugary foods, including France's soda tax, which was levied on sugary drinks from January 1.
National Starch Food Innovation has launched Purity Gum Ultra: a new starch-based emulsifier for cloudy beverages. The firm says the product delivers "exceptional turbidity and stability" in soft and alcoholic beverage formulations.
UK soft drinks manufacturer, Britvic will create 30 new jobs after moving its headquarters next month to Breakspear Park, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire from Chelmsford, Essex.
Glaxo SmithKline (GSK), the makers of iconic brands Ribena and Lucozade, are to invest £18M in a new bottling facility at its Coleford, Gloucestershire, which will create 20 new jobs.
Rising costs in the UK soft drinks market has hit sales at Vimto manufacturer Nichols despite the firm posting a strong performance for the period ending December 31.
With equipment companies and beverage fillers eager to eliminate the use of chemical sterilants in cold aseptic and ultraclean filling, many are weighing up the use of pulsed light decontamination.
One of Scotland's largest independent drink suppliers, Inverarity Morton is to close its depot in Symington, South Lanarkshire with the loss of three jobs as part of a £400,000 restructuring programme.
Soaring cider sales, thanks to innovative product design, meant the beverage now rivals the popularity of lager, according to a new report from market research group Mintel.
Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer has developed its 'greenest ever' refillable bottle - further improving the sustainability of what it claims is already one of the most environmentally-friendly forms of beverage packaging.
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).
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
