All news articles for October 2012

Companies need to pay more attention to IT budgeting

Firms are wasting cash on complex IT

By Rick Pendrous

Half of UK businesses are wasting thousands of pounds on IT support when they could be spending less by streamlining their systems for business advantage, according to a enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems specialist.

Shades of grey

Shades of grey

By Lynda Searby

Clean-label reformulation of food is not always black or white, as Lynda Searby discovers

Record rainfall in June and July badly hit this year's wheat harvest crop

Quality and cost fears over wheat harvest

By Gary Scattergood

Manufacturers are being warned that the worst wheat harvest for 35 years will drive up prices and could impact on the quality of their products.

Anna Rosier, md of Organix

Baby boomers

By Gary Scattergood

The baby food sector is one of few organic success stories, reports Gary Scattergood

Watkinson wants SOFHT to improve the services it offers technical managers

SOFHT services

By Rick Pendrous

The new chair of the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT) shares her plans with Rick Pendrous

Neil Houghton, general manager, Mash Direct

Mash maker

By Mike Stones

Cold rainy weather always boosts sales at Mash Direct. Not surprisingly, 2012 has proved a busy year, general manager, Neil Houghton tells Mike Stones

70% of people quizzed at Olympic venues said they would now consider recycling at home

Coca-Cola recycles 10.5M Olympic bottles

By Laurence Gibbons

Coca-Cola Enterprises has revealed it succeeded in the “bold ambition” set out before the London 2012 Olympic games to collect and recycle every left over product put onto the Olympic Park.

Mary Creagh: “It is indefensible how much edible food is wasted

Labour Party conference

Food manufacturers need a proper ‘agri-food strategy’

By Gary Scattergood at the Labour Party conference in Manchester

Skills, research and development (R&D) and access to funding need to be combined into a ‘proper agri-food strategy’ in order to feed people in Britain and abroad in the years to come.

Scotsbeef (pictured) is a leading player in the enterprise

Multi-million-pound plant for Scottish meat processors

By Laurence Gibbons

A new collaboration between Scotbeef, Scotch Premier and Mathers will see the creation of a multimillion-pound meat processing facility aimed at safeguarding and developing the industry.

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