EU legislation designed to avoid consumers being mislead about the country of origin of ingredients contained in compound foods they purchase is likely to cause headaches for food manufacturers, according to a legal expert.
Dale Farm, Northern Ireland’s biggest dairy business, has reported a decline in pre-tax profits for 2015 because of challenging market conditions, including falling milk prices worldwide, despite growing turnover by 9.2% to £320M.
Hilton Food Group, the international specialist meat packing business, has predicted a “positive” 2016 as it released a trading update last month for the 53 weeks to January 3 2016, which exceeded its board’s expectations.
Plans by the National Health Service (NHS) to introduce a sugar tax on food and drink sold in its hospitals has been heavily criticised by industry trade bodies.
A potential UK exit from the EU would have an economically damaging impact on the UK food and drink manufacturing sector, the boss of the world’s largest sandwich maker has warned.
The Business Leaders’ Forum (BLF) – organised by the Food Manufacture Group – has grown to become “probably the premier event in the food calendar”, according to host sponsor DWF.
Dairy UK has launched a new export strategy to help the dairy industry “unlock a new world of opportunity” on international markets, while Graham’s The Family Dairy has secured a deal to supply milk exclusively to Starbucks’ Scottish stores.
Food and drink businesses have been named and shamed for owing employees almost £4,000 in wages in a report on 92 offending companies by the business minster.
Food and drink manufacturers need to act quickly to reduce fluorinated greenhouse gas (F-Gas) usage in refrigeration systems in the wake of rising costs and ever-tighter regulation, a leading food logistics expert has claimed.
Predictions about the risk of food poisoning from products contaminated with the spore-forming bacterium Clostridium botulinum (C.botulinum) will be more accurate, following research from the Norwich-based Institute of Food Research (IFR).
Government plans to impose an employers' Apprenticeship Levy and scrap a key A-Level qualification have come under fire from food and drink industry leaders.
The National Living Wage (NLW) – which comes into force in April – will place extra costs on many small food and farming businesses, already struggling to cope with other government changes being introduced at the same time, warned industry bosses at...
Retaining knowledgeable employees who are committed to the business is the key to any successful food manufacturing business, according to one food boss.
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has opened a no frills, discount food store – called easyFoodstore store – to complement his cut-price airline and travel businesses.
A student has threatened legal action unless Nestlé provides her with a lifetime supply of her favourite chocolate bar Kit Kat, after she purchased a multipack in which none of the bars contained a wafer biscuit.
Food industry manufacturers, suppliers and retailers should no longer think of their supply chains as linear, and instead organise themselves in a series of networks around consumers, a joint report by consultancy firm Capgemini and The Consumer Goods...
Gregory Distribution has selected 10 trailers fitted with refrigeration systems to support a contract with Mondelēz International to deliver Cadbury chocolate.
Hovis has outsourced its electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements to TrueCommerce Europe, a HighJump company, in a move designed to reduce costs and the time taken to bring new customers on-board.
Iceland has signed a new three-year deal with pallet provider CHEP that is expected to deliver supply chain efficiencies in the frozen food supermarket chain’s operations, both in the UK and internationally.
Millennials – those aged between 18 and 34 – are expected to have a huge impact on supply chains over the next few years as they transform the way consumers shop, according to a new study.
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) has been recognised as a centre of expertise in food authenticity testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Tesco has confirmed plans to switch part of its milk supply from Arla to Müller, after days of speculation, despite threats of direct action by militant farmers.
Salmonella fears, breaking beer bottles and allergen worries were some of the reasons food and drink manufacturers were forced to recall products last week, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Morrisons is to harness the power of its food manufacturing capability to cut prices even further, as it battles the limited range discounters Aldi and Lidl and the other big supermarkets, its boss David Potts has revealed.
What keeps Wyke Farms md Richard Clothier awake at night? “Everything”, he tells us in this disarmingly frank video interview. But his particular concerns focus on the availability of labour and the UK’s potential exit from the EU.
