Despite the huge pressures on manufacturers I am amazed at the lost potential that exists in our UK factories. As an external trainer and facilitator...
Infuriating as the case of the Saskatoon berry must be for the suppliers that had to withdraw their blueberry-like product from supermarkets, because...
Catering will offer frozen food producers the best prospects for growth in future, according to Alf Carr, director general of the British Frozen Food...
Are you streets ahead of the rest when it comes to process innovation? Is your environmental management second to none? If so, enter Food Manufacture's Excellence Awards and you could be crowned our company of the year
Sarah West-Sadler came up smiling when she won two prizes at the Foodex Meatex Student Foodexcellence Awards. But her journey to the podium has not been plain sailing, as she tells Stefan Chomka
Obesity has been in the headlines a lot recently, and quite rightly so. It is the second biggest killer in the world with over 400,000 deaths a year,...
Fast, energy efficient ovens and cookers that result in good looking products and also provide excellent taste and mouthfeel, are in high demand. Lucia Cockcroft reports on some of the latest equipment now available
Authentic, regional and traditional ingredients add quality to foods and attract a premium price. John Dunn discovers how advances in DNA technology ensure that what the food producer offers is pukka
Frantschach has designs on becoming the leader in active packaging in Europe. Stefan Chomka went to the company's Neoplex plant in Denmark to discover how it intends to do it
More farmer-controlled food manufacturing businesses will emerge as the agricultural sector tries to cope with CAP reform. But, without the right collaboration and expertise, many are destined to fail, says Rick Pendrous
I remember a whisky distiller that had 36 key performance indicators (KPIs) which occupied a whole wall in the chief executive's office. They gave a...
Unilever Bestfoods (UBF) has selected Power Europe, an Exel company, to develop and manage a new automated national distribution centre at Kingswood...
For over 50 years investment in manufacturing has been an issue for the UK economy. The result has been the decline of many industries for which the...
Contaminants create problems that seem to plague meat and fish producers, as was highlighted in the press earlier this year with the Scottish salmon...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has advised manufacturers that food supplement products with high levels of certain vitamins or minerals should carry...
Ashworth Foods has sold its frozen unbaked savoury business to pie and slice producer Peter Hunt's Bakery Foods, a part of theLyndale group.The sale...
