The government could support food exports more, Melanie Leech, director general of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), claimed, shortly before Lord Livingstone pledged more trade backing.
Demonising food products is dangerous and focusing on the importance of positive nutrients is vital, according to Jon Poole, ceo of the Institute of Food Science & Technology.
Morrisons is refusing to confirm or deny reports that its group treasurer Paul Coyle has been arrested on suspicion of insider dealing, in advance of the supermarket’s partnership with online grocer Ocado.
Campaigns against sugar lack the science to back the extreme messages they use to promote their agenda and could confuse consumers, Food and Drink Federation (FDF) director general Melanie Leech has said.
Horsemeat, the waning power of retail giant Tesco and 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisitions featured in the review of 2013, at Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum from its chair Paul Wilkinson.
Trades union Usdaw said it was “saddened” to hear of the 140 job cuts planned at breakfast cereal giant Kellogg’s Wrexham factory, part of a global business restructure.
Food manufacturers’ organisation the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has slammed a Channel 4 programme on sugar – screened earlier this week (January 20) as – “highly misleading”.
Bright Blue Foods aims to cut 57 jobs as it closes its Manchester bakery, which makes slab, loaf and Christmas cake, and shift production to other sites to improve efficiency.
The cultivation of a lean manufacturing culture of continuous improvement is often hampered by firms “cherry picking” what they implement, according to Jeff Williams of business consultancy SA Partners.
McDonald’s has stressed its commitment to sustainable beef supply standards and practices a year after the horsemeat affair began, claiming it aims to strengthen industry farming practices.
Tough new rules regulating food manufacturers’ use of fat, sugar and salt – initially in children’s food – will be introduced if Labour wins the next general election.
There were more jobs gained than threatened in food and drink manufacturing in the last six months, continuing the trend for a positive outlook for the jobs market in the sector exclusively revealed by Foodmanufacture.co.uk in July.
Aimia Foods aims to grow sales by almost 50% and staff numbers by a third within five years, as it invests millions of pounds in production, according to md Rob Unsworth.
Influential lobby group the National Obesity Forum (NOF) has admitted exaggerating the severity of the UK’s national obesity crisis and relying on anecdotal evidence, rather than scientific research, in its State of the Nation’s Waistline report published...
A campaign was launched last Friday (January 17) to raise awareness about the risks posed by illegal pesticides sold to farmers in the EU, often by organised criminal gangs from eastern Europe that pass off imports from China masquerading as products...
Supermarkets’ Christmas sales were hit by a triple whammy – leading to the lowest sales growth for at least seven years – while discounters Lidl and Aldi boosted their takings, according to market research company Nielsen.
Food manufacturers, retailers and consumers are walking “blindly” into an obesity epidemic, independent nutritionist Dr Carrie Ruxton has said following a report outlining the UK’s soaring gout problem.
Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE) latest education centre will attract young people into the food and drink manufacturing industry and play its part in helping to train around 20,000 people a year that pass through the centres in total when it opens in Milton...
The latest Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) deal is “a political fudge” that will make Britain’s farmers industry less competitive and disadvantage the whole food industry, warns the National Farmers Union (NFU).
2 Sisters Food Group has won closer support from the Welsh government, which has just declared Boparan Holdings, 2 Sisters’ parent company, one of its six new ‘anchor’ companies.
The income gap between rich and poor is seen as the biggest threat to the world over the coming decade, according to World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Risks 2014 report, released yesterday (January 16) in advance of next week’s meeting of political...
Online grocery distribution business Ocado will not deliver cash flow growth in the short term, according to City analyst Shore Capital, after the online grocery distribution business released its results for the 16 weeks to December 1 2013.
Food and drink firm Healthy Food Brands has created 10 jobs to meet growing demand, after securing a contract to supply its PLj Lemon Juice brand to 750 Tesco stores.
Meat processor Tulip is investing almost half a million pounds in a project designed to create a centre of excellence for gammon and bacon production in Cornwall.
Plunging world sugar prices hampered sales growth for Associated British Foods (ABF) in the first quarter of its current financial year, but its Twinings and Allied Bakeries brands delivered strong performances.
Thorntons reported sweet success over Christmas, with its second quarter results, for the 14 weeks to January 22, revealing sales in both fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and retail divisions ahead of some City analysts’ expectations.
2 Sisters Food Group is facing possible strikes at its Corby plant in protest over pay and conditions, if balloted members of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) agree.
Chr Hansen has taken a new approach to fermented milks to make desserts that attract ‘generation Y’: 17- to 35-year-old consumers. It perceives this group - born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s - to include a high proportion of food sophisticates...
Alastair Macphie will become executive chairman of bakery ingredients firm Macphie later this year, following an 18-year stint as chief executive officer, as part of a management restructure.
Fruit firm SH Pratt has confirmed 86 jobs will go at its Luton plant in Bedfordshire after the loss of a major contract to supply supermarket chain Morrisons.
There should be a ban on the import and sale of horsemeat from North America into the EU, Humane Society International (HSI) has claimed on the first anniversary of the horsemeat scandal.
Fresh prepared foods manufacturer Bakkavor has sold Spring Valley Foods, its South African prepared fruit business, to In2food Group for an undisclosed sum.
Low fruit and meat prices between November and December 2013 have helped dampen consumer price inflation, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
