Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has thrown open the doors of its Morpeth site in Northumberland to students in a bid to show them the many job opportunities in the food and drink manufacturing sector.
Supermarkets must “step up to the plate” as the retail industry risks missing a key target for campylobacter reduction, according to consumer group Which?
Kettleby Foods, part of the Samworth Brothers food manufacturing business, has won the Environmental trophy in the industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs) – at the Lancaster hotel, London.
Morrisons has the highest levels of campylobacter in fresh chicken, while contamination in retail chicken has fallen overall, according to the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) latest assessment of Britain’s number one cause of food poisoning.
Food and drink manufacturers must understand how to combine touch, smell and sight to enhance the taste of their products in order to boost consumers’ overall enjoyment.
Grocery think tank IGD is planning a range of new activities designed to help consumers improve their understanding of a nutritionally balanced diet and encourage healthier eating as it takes a more prominent role in trying to curb the UK’s obesity epidemic.
Poultry processor 2 Sisters Food Group has partnered with recruitment firm Hudson in a bid to strengthen its brand and provide its business with a ready pool of new talent.
Food and drink manufacturers should forget about managing people that are currently obese and instead focus on preventing more people becoming overweight, according to a leading expert.
The near impossibility of imposing a sugar tax was one of four reasons why a tax would not limit sugar consumption or obesity, according to Food and Drink Federation (FDF) director general Ian Wright.
Moy Park, Premier Foods and 2 Sisters Food Group were among the 11 businesses that graced the stage at the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEAs) earlier this month to collect Oscars for their top performance over the past year.
Morrisons, Tesco and Asda have been the “hardest hit” as rival discounters Aldi and Lidl claim a 10th of the UK market, according to data provider Nielsen.
Clean labelling, free-from products and part-time vegetarian diets are among the top 10 food and drink trends for 2016, according to Innova Market Insights.
A series of food and drink ‘mega-deals’ will result in this year’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sector activity being at its highest since 2007, with international deals dominating, a financial advisory firm has claimed.
Relive the carnival atmosphere from the 15th annual Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs) and hear from some of the winners as they picked up their gongs in this exclusive video.
TV chef Delia Smith is ‘too busy’ to intervene in a dispute between General Mills and workers at its Tweedmouth factory, which manufactures Just-Rol pastry, following the manufacturer’s plans to cut 265 jobs at the site.
Nomad Foods’s acquisition of Findus Group’s continental European business will yield approximately £7M more cost-saving synergies than expected, the firm claimed.
Warwick headquartered meat firm Tulip has flowered to win the Best new use of food ingredients trophy in the manufacturing industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs).
Tesco is on track to meet its pledge to reduce the levels of the foodborne pathogen campylobacter in its fresh chicken, according to data released by the retailer.
The use of plastic returnable transit packaging (RTP) in UK food is growing, says supplier PPS, notably in the meat, poultry and fish sectors, though there is little evidence that returnables are conquering major new categories.
Companies purchasing packaging machinery on the assumption that it meets CE-marking and other EU regulations should go through a rigorous pre-acceptance checklist with the supplier, according to one machine safety specialist, or risk facing prosecution...
The £71BN takeover of SABMiller by AB InBev is likely to result in further consolidation among the remaining brewers, a leading expert on large-scale mergers has claimed.
Real Good Food Company (RGFC) has posted a £9.3M profit after tax for the six months to September 30 2015, largely off the back of the sale of its Napier Brown business for £44M.
Young people shouldn’t overlook the food industry as it can offer many job roles and quick progression, according to the winner of the Food Manufacturing Excellence Award (FMEA) for Young Talent of the Year.
Food manufacturers and retailers are up in arms about changes to EU legislation which threatens the use of factory cleaning chemicals containing biocides and could seriously jeopardise food safety.
3D printing could one day be as valuable to food manufacturers as the internet and help them reduce costs and energy and save production time, according to an expert in the field.
Food and drink manufacturers and retailers have “smashed” their food and packaging waste target set as part of a voluntary arrangement by grocery think-tank IGD, an Asda boss has revealed.
Innovative food manufacturers are being encouraged to sign up for the chance of winning a share of a £10M fund designed to promote research and development (R&D) into healthier products.
Sainsbury’s 17.9% slump in underlying pre-tax half year profits to £308M reveals the challenges facing the whole food industry, according to a leading retail analyst.
An “enormous” funding cut is set to slash the operations of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), warns a food and drink manufacturing boss.
Bernard Matthews group technical director Jeremy Hall has set out his mission to make poultry the meat of choice over the next 10 years by preventing campylobacter food poisoning.
William and Charles Eid have big plans now they are back at the helm of Signature Flatbreads, the 50:50 joint venture with Aryzta. The brothers spoke to Rick Pendrous
The food sector faces considerable uncertainty about what the retail landscape will look like next year, given the monumental changes coming down the line not least the introduction of a National Living Wage (NLW) of £7.20 an hour next April.
