24-May-2012 - Food and drink manufacturers could benefit from the National Farmers Union's (NFU's) new campaign to boost sales of British produce.
14-May-2012 - Food and drink manufacturers have helped to save an estimated 195,000t of waste from landfill and smashed a target set by the IGD think tank.
14-May-2012 - The UK pours 360,000t of milk down the drain each year, wasting the 100,000t of carbon dioxide produced by making it. Stopping this waste would be equivalent to taking 20,000 cars a year off the road, according to a study by Scottish scientists.
11-May-2012 - The nation is sleepwalking towards a logistics nightmare that could gridlock the capital and other sports venues during the Olympic Games, warns a logistics expert.
01-May-2012 - Sir,As a 60+ executive, who spent his life serving retailers in the fast- moving consumer goods sector, including the food industry, I felt it imperative to respond to the editor's view in the March issue of Food Manufacture on the imbalance between the retailers and their suppliers. A level playing field is indeed what is required.
23-Apr-2012 - Food manufacturers will have to wait until the results of a government survey are published this summer to discover if the Schmallenberg livestock disease is likely to cut beef and lamb supplies and push up prices.
12-Apr-2012 - The row between drinks distributer Trade Team and former workers at its Hams Hall site has ended after Unite the union confirmed a compensation package had been agreed for its members.
01-Apr-2012 - In 1962 management guru Peter Drucker described logistics as the economy's "last dark continent." He said: "We know little more about distribution than Napoleon's contemporaries knew about the interior of Africa."
15-Mar-2012 - A futuristic 3D virtual reality warehouse simulator has been launched enabling food manufacturers and logistics providers to explore different warehouse designs and make more informed business decisions before committing to them.
14-Mar-2012 - The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has welcomed the government’s plan to invest £15M in research and development dedicated to boosting food sector growth.
12-Mar-2012 - Culina Group is pressing ahead with ambitious plans to enhance services for food manufacturers and retailers – slashing store delivery lead times and pursuing rapid growth in fresh food and other categories.
08-Mar-2012 - Food manufacturers and retailers continue to work on carbon footprinting, despite moving away from displaying results on consumer packaging, according to Chris Stanley, director at sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward (BFF).
06-Mar-2012 - 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.
01-Mar-2012 - Millions of pounds of savings are on offer across the grocery supply chain through pallet consolidation as global specialist Chep’s project targeting the topic builds momentum among manufacturers and retailers.
29-Feb-2012 - Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the dairy supply chain should become easier thanks to a new benchmark certified by the Carbon Trust and detailed in a report funded by levy-funded dairy farming organisation DairyCo.
27-Feb-2012 - Craemer will display a selection of products from its range of hygienic pallets and containers.
27-Feb-2012 - W+D Langhammer offers a wide range of standard components for use in pallet transportation. Individually planned conveyor units can be put together to meet specific requirements.
27-Feb-2012 - Tailored to individual business needs, Autostore, from Central Systems & Automation, controls the physical movement and storage of goods and resources across warehouse, distribution centre or cold store operations.
27-Feb-2012 - The logistics services available from the Widdowson Group will be on display within the UK Warehousing Association Pavilion at FoodEx.
27-Feb-2012 - Systems Integration (SI), a leading supplier of software and hardware for the food processing industry, will be showing its Integreater system.
27-Feb-2012 - The food factory build and maintenance expertise of KDH Projects will be highlighted on its stand at Foodex.
27-Feb-2012 - Specific IT linking production to the supply chain is no longer a luxury, and no longer just for the largest multi-site businesses. For a small operation, the right system with the right features can be a huge differentiator, helping to open doors to downstream customers.
27-Feb-2012 - Logistics specialist Norbert Dentressangle (ND) is targeting €1bn (£848.6M) in freight forwarding sales within five years, according to Dave Barron, global commercial director for Norbert Dentressangle Overseas (NDO).
21-Feb-2012 - Smart phones will be central to the way tomorrow’s young, 'Generation Y' shoppers interact with food and drink products on sale in supermarkets, according to new research commissioned from the grocery think tank IGD by Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE).
08-Feb-2012 - Operational and supply chain efficiency improvements are more important now than they have ever been, as pressure to cut costs increases, it has emerged.