Cooking and cold storage operator James T Blakeman (Services) & Co is making big efficiency and productivity gains since investing £900,000 in a double-belted helix spiral freezer at its factory in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Is a renewed focus on sugar reduction an inevitable consequence of the SACN recommendations? Lynda Searby digests the report and its implications for the food industry.
Huel, the manufacturer of a new nutritionally complete powdered food, launched in June this year, has claimed the product sold out three times within its first month on sale.
Manufacturers faced mixed news last month with the release of government statistics showing food deflation in July at “one of the lowest values ever recorded”.
Manufacturers should prime themselves to take advantage of the supermarkets’ abolition of ‘guilt lanes’ by making healthy alternatives to chocolates and sweets to stock at checkouts, like the online snack manufacturer Graze has done, its boss has said.
Government rules on the taxation of healthy and unhealthy foods have been slammed by a health food producer, which claimed the system was confusing and unfair.
Food manufacturers must work harder to excite “bored” consumers and find ways to engage their senses, master chocolatier Paul A Young said following his involvement in Tate Britain’s Sensorium exhibition in London.
Marks & Spencer is preparing to roll out unannounced audits to the majority of its food suppliers in a bid to further strengthen its supply chain integrity against fraudsters looking to cash in on vulnerable companies.
Jeremy Corbyn, who is leading the other candidates in the polls to become the next leader of the Labour Party, divides opinion. Those on the right see him as an unreconstructed leftie who would make Labour unelectable. His fans – including many young...
Arla Foods’s revenue has dropped 3.8% to £3.78bn (€5.12bn) during the first half of this year as a result of the globally declining milk prices creating a “tough” situation for the industry.
British Cassis founder and Cargill supplier Jo Hilditch refused four offers of investment from the BBC’s Dragons’ Den stars for a stake in her business.
