Britvic has launched a nationwide rollout of its range of fruit-flavoured, lower-sugar sparkling waters, as it continues to target health-conscious consumers
Carr’s Group has reported positive half-year results, boosted by renewed confidence in the industry thanks to more clarity surrounding post-Brexit support.
A new business relationship management and benchmarking subscription service for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands and suppliers, launched by Food Manufacture’s publisher William Reed, is gaining increased traction within the sector.
Sainsbury’s is recalling a batch of its Sliced Beetroot sold in jars as a “precautionary measure” because the product may contain small pieces of glass.
Northern Irish baker and healthy snack manufacturer Linwoods is to make 90 workers redundant, as part of business restructuring prompted by changes in market demand.
Meat processor Cranswick has urged the entire food chain to become more transparent to restore public trust, predicting consumers would increasingly insist on accessing traceability information via smartphone.
UK food and drink producers should expand trade beyond Europe and focus on shipping goods to the US and Asia, according to the Department of International Trade (DIT) and the Welsh government.
Meat processor Holmesterne Foods has invested more than £550,000 in new cold storage at two of its manufacturing sites in North Yorkshire, doubling its frozen and chilled capacity.
Pie and pasty brand Ginsters has launched two new vegetarian products to its range in response to a growing number of consumers changing to ‘flexitarian’ diets.
Meat and poultry processor 2 Sisters Food Group has launched a new sustainability initiative in a bid to use less and recycle more plastic at its businesses.
Seven years ago, Mike Faers left the corporate food industry behind to embark on what he terms his “third career” – and Food Innovation Solutions (FIS) was born. Here, he talks to Food Manufacture about two projects the company he set up has worked on.
Tamworth-based The Malted Waffle Company has secured funding from Santander to ramp up exports in a bid to expand overseas, as it looks to create new jobs at the business.
Probiotics could benefit coeliacs by helping to offset gluten intolerances and aid the intake of nutrients into the body, according to the latest work by scientists at probiotic firm Probi.
Packaging materials present particular problems for cartoning and sleeving and end-of-line operations that food processors must bear in mind, experts have warned.
Provenance and a more handcrafted appearance are driving a growing premium sausage category, but with provenance has come a greater need for transparency throughout the supply chain, according to collagen casings firm Devro.
Scottish seafood supplier D R Collin & Son was the top-ranked food or drink firm in this year’s Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100, the league table of Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits.
Scottish minister for business, innovation and energy Paul Wheelhouse is leading a cross-party effort to curb job losses at Young’s Seafood’s Annan site, amid proposals to shift salmon production there to Grimsby.
With the Soft Drinks Industry Levy coming into effect today, manufacturers have been forced to either reformulate their products or face paying tax on drinks with a higher sugar content.
Vertically integrated food retailer Morrisons is to create 100 new roles at its fish processing plant in Grimsby, less than a week after up to 400 jobs were put at risk at 2 Sisters-owned Five Star Fish.
Only 60–80% of suppliers’ food and drink products listed by retailers are visible online when shoppers are searching for their brand or category, according to a new study from category and shopper management specialist Bridgethorne.
Up to 450 jobs are at risk at Young’s Seafood’s Annan site in the south of Scotland, while it plans to create 200 jobs in Grimsby after winning three new contracts with retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S).
Food production line manufacturer Priden Engineering has been acquired by private equity firm Elaghmore Partners for an undisclosed multi-million pound sum.
British diets could become far more polarised post-Brexit, with the rich enjoying more expensive local food produced to high production and welfare standards, and the poor relying on cheap, imported food made to much lower standards, a leading academic...
Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS), a US-headquartered smart rigid packaging specialist that works “below the radar” with some of the biggest global names in branded food and drink, is on a mission to raise its profile and grow its business in Europe as...
