The Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs) 2017 has yielded a vintage crop of entries, with a particularly strong selection of Young talent of the year entries, says Waitrose technical manager and FMEA judge Jonathan Bayne.
Meat processor and packing business Hilton Food Group has revealed plans to build a £29.2M (NZ $54M) factory in New Zealand, as it continues its global growth.
Food manufacturers are likely to be impacted by two key consumer trends from a list of four, set to dominated shoppers’ spending next year, according to new research from Mintel.
Almost one-in-five deaths globally can be attributed to a poor diet, a major study involving more than 2,500 collaborators from 130 countries has revealed.
Sainsbury’s director of brand has called for standardisation of food portion sizes to “create a level playing field” in the battle against growing obesity levels in the UK.
UK-based food manufacturers are being encouraged to take advantage of a concerted push by the Isle of Man government to grow the island’s food and drink industry.
The Food Manufacture Group’s md, Lorraine Hendle, is joining Greencore’s group technical director Helen Sisson and other women industry leaders next week in a charity project to build beehives in Tanzania.
Sleep deprivation and exercise can make peanut allergy sufferers vulnerable to more severe life-threatening anaphylaxis attacks, according to the latest results of a research project, which have yet to be published.
Scotch whisky sales have fallen by 1M bottles since Chancellor Philip Hammond hiked spirits tax in the March budget, claimed the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), which is urging the Exchequer to lift the duty in next month’s budget.
A novel pressure-assisted thermal sterilisation process technology for food, developed as part of the EU-funded ‘Hipster’ project, will be the focus of a seminar taking place in Wageningen in the Netherlands this month.
Scotland’s food and drink sector is being showcased in a new map of the country, highlighting the growing success of the industry – a key driver of the country’s economy.
2 Sisters Food Group boss Ranjit Boparan has been called to appear before a parliamentary inquiry, after allegations of food safety, hygiene and welfare breaches at its West Bromwich plant.
ABP Food Group has invested in a £22M green energy plant in Buckinghamshire, capable of producing enough sustainable energy to power the equivalent of 12,000 homes.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has repeated calls for the government to confirm whether EU workers will be allowed to remain after Brexit, following the fifth round of Brexit talks in Brussels.
US secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue is to visit London this week, as part of his first official visit to Europe, in a bid to ‘lift trade barriers to US exports’.
A combination of high commodity prices and labour costs are a “constant attrition”, hindering growth at one of the UK’s biggest bakery firms, its group finance director has claimed.
Bakkavor has revealed plans to raise £100M by floating at least a quarter of its shares on the London Stock exchange (LSE), as part of a bid to fund its global expansion.
One of the UK’s largest meat processors is having to transport workers across the country to make up for a shortage of available labour, its boss has revealed.
Dairy processor First Milk has almost doubled its profits in its financial results for the year ended March 31 2017, following a “transformation” of the business.
Unilever is remaining quiet on claims it intends to move nearly 150 jobs from the UK to the Netherlands, in a plan to create a new global headquarters for food and drink brands.
Runny eggs are now safe to eat by infants, children, pregnant women and the elderly for the first time in 30 years, provided they are produced under the British Lion code of practice, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
High-pressure water jetting offers a number of benefits over other technologies for cutting and portioning of foods – from vegetables to baked goods – claims Bob Hinchcliffe, technical director of Stelram Engineering.
Food companies have been urged to simplify food date labels worldwide by 2020, by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), which counts Tesco, Kellogg, Walmart, Nestlé, Carrefour and Unilever among its members.
The dairy industry’s needs must be recognised in British trade, labour and a domestic agricultural policy to ensure it remains competitive post-Brexit, urged the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Top food innovators Jonny Bingham and David Jones claim their new product development (NPD) potential has been significantly boosted by the opening of two new ‘innovation kitchens’.
Some of the world’s biggest food manufacturers and retailers have agreed to simplify food date labels by 2020 in an attempt to reduce the vast quantities of food that is unnecessarily wasted each year.
2 Sisters Food Group has welcomed the Food Standards Agency (FSA) plan to widen its investigations into standards at the manufacturer’s poultry plants in England and Wales.
Boparan Holdings, owner of 2 Sisters Food Group, is in talks about a merger of its Fox’s Biscuits brand with Jammie Dodgers manufacturer Burton’s Biscuits, according to Sky News.
Given Boris Johnson’s continued hotly contested assertion that repatriation of the UK’s £350M weekly contribution to the EU could provide a huge additional spending boost to the NHS, that won’t leave much left for the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has teamed up with the University of Reading, in a bid to cut soft drinks packaging by providing students with refillable bottles.
The director of a Leeds-based prepared salads and vegetables business has drawn on his own experience to highlight the value of giving staff the incentive to progress their careers.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to extend its probe into 2 Sisters’ poultry plants in England and Wales, after its initial investigation revealed “issues requiring management attention”.
Food and drink manufacturers are invited to win national recognition by entering their products in the Chefs’ Choice Awards, organised by the Food Manufacture Group’s publisher William Reed.
Subterranean salad producer Growing Underground, which grows microgreens 33m below London streets, has landed the prestigious Future Food category of the BBC Food and Farming Awards.
Icelandic fish producer Ny-Fiskur plans to install a second FleXicut system from Marel later this year for its processing facility in Sandgerdi, Iceland.
The risk of injuries to workers in abattoirs caused by bandsaws used to cut up frozen primary meat carcases can now be reduced, thanks to the new BladeStop technology available from Interfood Butchery.