All news articles for January 2017

Hilton Food Group agreed a joint venture with Portugal-based Sonae. Image courtesy of Jon Sullivan

Hilton enters joint venture in Portugal

By Gwen Ridler

Meat producer Hilton Food Group has agreed a joint venture to supply Portuguese retailer Sonae Modelo Continente, following six-months of cooperation between the two companies.

Marks & Spencer have slammed unauthorised third party retailers who sell their products

Marks & Spencer slams unofficial third-party sellers

By Gwen Ridler

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has condemned the sale of its own-label food by unauthorised third-party sellers, after two of its pork stuffing products were part of a Food Standards Agency (FSA) recall.

James Kempley and Troy Foods’s own-label mayonnaise

Troy Foods launches own-label mayonnaise

By Gwen Ridler

Vegetable and salad producer Troy Foods is to launch its own range of mayonnaise, following a £200,000 investment into production capacity.

Windyridge was on target to grow 125% last year, says md Melvin Glynn

Blender Windyridge Cheese moves to new premises

By Rick Pendrous

Family-owned cheese blending specialist Windyridge Cheese has relocated to a new site, The Blending House in Wincanton, which will provide extended capabilities and space for the rapidly-growing business.

Sugar-free soft drink alternatives should not be promoted as part of a healthy diet, the study claims

Sugar-free drink study slammed by scientists

By Noli Dinkovski

A study that suggests sugar-free and diet drinks play no role in helping people lose weight is unhelpful and ignores the evidence base, scientists and industry lobby groups claim.

Professor Chris Elliott will present the 2017 City Food Lecture

Chris Elliott to present City Food Lecture

By Rick Pendrous

Food fraud threats will be the focus of the prestigious City Food Lecture 2017 to be presented by Professor Chris Elliott at London’s Guildhall next month (February 21).

Marcus Boardall (l), deputy chief executive of Reed Boardall, and finance director Sarah Roberts

Reed Boardall maintains profits despite falling sales

By Rick Pendrous

Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business Reed Boardall has reported a slight fall in revenues of £64.3M for the year to March 31 2016 in its financial results released today (January 4), down from £65.9M achieved in 2015, in what the frozen...

Food and farming industry leaders featured in the New Year's Honour List (Flickr/ Peter Smithson)

New Year’s Honours list 2017: Who was awarded what?

By Matt Atherton

The bosses of Scotland’s biggest egg producer, a snack foods business and a salad producer are among the food industry leaders who received recognition in the 2017 New Year’s Honours list.

Fires at Icestone Gelato's factory and ice cream parlour were suspected to be arson attacks. Image: West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Suspected arson attack on ice cream factory

By Gwen Ridler

A blaze at an ice cream factory is Bradford in currently under investigation by West Yorkshire Police, after two of its business premises were hit by arson attacks on Christmas Eve.

Müller have been fined £400,000 after a worker fell through a fragile roof panel

Müller fined £400,000 for roof fall

By Gwen Ridler

Müller UK and Ireland Group has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 for safety failings, after a worker fell 4.6m through a fragile roof panel.

Food prices will rise as rising input costs eat into supplier profit margins

Food inflation set to return in 2017

By Rick Pendrous

Rising food prices can be expected in 2017 – reversing the deflationary trend of recent years – as news emerged from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that inflation overall in the UK in November had climbed to its highest level in two years.

Nicholls Meats taking legal advice over food alert

Nicholls Meats taking legal advice over food alert

By Aaron McDonald

Norfolk-based butcher's Nicholls Meats Ltd is to seek legal advice on the actions of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and a supplier, centring on a consumer warning issued on the FSA's website concerning certain pork products.

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