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Fosh: 'designing and driving forward the future skills agenda'

Industry Skills Partnership backed by £3M boost

By Rod Addy

The government is pumping £2M into the launch of a new partnership designed to deliver food industry recruits in England with practical, competitive skills that will satisfy employers.

UFP makes popcorn as well as other snacks

Leicester snacks company creates 56 jobs

By Rod Addy

Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) is investing £11M in a new snack factory in Lewisher Road, Leicester, which will create 56 jobs as it shifts production from its Lunsford Road facility.

The horsemeat scandal began in January 2013, when horse was found in items labelled as beef products

Elliott Review: Food Crime Unit underway

Food Standards Agency budget slashed by £22M

By Rod Addy

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will have seen £22M cut from its budget from the beginning of the horsemeat scandal to the end of the 2015/16 financial year.

The Elliott review was prompted by the discovery of horse in beef products in 2013

Elliott Review

Speed and cash crucial to food fraud strategy

By Rod Addy

The Elliott Review may count for little in preventing a similar scandal to ‘horsegate’ unless its proposals are implemented swiftly and funded properly, according to experts.

Shop around to find the most cost effective energy partner, advised Jes Rutter

Energy webinar

Choose your energy management partner with care

By Laurence Gibbons

Food and drink businesses should evaluate a range of energy management firms before selecting one to partner with to ensure the best possible financial returns, says the boss of energy efficiency specialist JRP Solutions.

Pasta Reale processed fresh and filled pasta

Almost 170 jobs go as Pasta Reale goes under

By Rod Addy

Almost 170 jobs have been lost at fresh and filled pasta processor Pasta Reale as the Sussex-based company called in administrators from BDO on August 26 after 35 years of trading.

Meat inspectors are demanding a 1% pay rise in line with the cost of living

Meat inspectors strike to go ahead

By Rod Addy

A strike by workers employed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) set down for this week will go ahead, trades union Unison has confirmed.

Food firms need to create an environment where creative ideas flourish

Food firms need intrapreneurs, expert argues

By Rod Addy

Food industry cultures must be overhauled to foster the development of ‘intrapreneurs’ if genuine innovation is to be encouraged, according to an expert in the field.

Leatherhead Food Research hopes its new leadership team will increase its support for the food industry

Leatherhead creates new leadership team

By Laurence Gibbons

Leatherhead Food Research has created a new leadership team in a bid to increase its support for the food industry and add investment in resources and customer communications.

The drivers were transferred from Tesco to Eddie Stobart Limited before they were dismissed

Former Tesco drivers keep up demos at depots

By Rod Addy

Former Tesco drivers are staging further demos at the retailer’s distribution centres in a long-running row over job cuts after they transferred to Eddie Stobart Limited and were then dismissed.

Technology to extract protein from salmon waste has taken a leap forward

Fish waste proteins offer help to famine victims

By Rod Addy

Salmon waste could help treat famine victims thanks to novel technology – currently being trialled by Loch Duart – that can extract edible proteins from the leftovers.

Richard Naish: it pays to tidy up your corporate act by eliminating defunct subsidiaries

Why it pays to clean up your corporate group

By Richard Naish

Food companies that have been incorporated for years are likely to have accumulated subsidiaries, some of which will be defunct. However, there are a number of benefits to cleaning up your corporate group.

Tacon: Unless suppliers support me, I will go

Retailer watchdog will go without supplier support

By Rick Pendrous

Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon has criticised food and drink suppliers for failing to complain about supermarket abuses of power, warning her office was threatened unless they were more forthcoming.

Protestors will delay the start of their shifts over s 24-hour period

Sainsbury drivers protest over pension changes

By Nicholas Robinson

Nearly 200 Sainsbury drivers will cause “substantial” disruption today (June 20), when they walk out on their Merseyside distribution centre in a pension row that could cost them tens of thousands of pounds, claims Unite the union.

HEFF helped hundreds of small to medium-sized speciality food producers sell and market their products

Heart of England Fine Foods to fold

By Rod Addy

Heart of England Fine Foods (HEFF) is facing voluntary liquidation 16 years after its foundation, threatening 15 jobs.

Left to right: Stewart Neithercut, ILS head of business development; Lorraine Bater, ILS operations director; Medilink ceo Dr Darren Clark

Food testing firm recovers from fire to seize award

By Rod Addy

International Laboratory Services (ILS) has recovered from a fire that hit one of its labs last year to nail an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Medilink East Midlands Business Awards.

Unite claims Eddie Stobart colluded with Tesco to deny workers a proper consultation on the redundancy proposals

Ex-Tesco drivers protest at ‘unfair dismissals’ hearing

By Michael Stones

Former Tesco drivers, who worked at a Tesco distribution centre in Doncaster, are staging a silent demonstration outside an employment tribunal hearing in Sheffield today (Friday June 13), according to Unite the union.

People are failing to recycle because they don't trust their rubbish will actually be recycled

Top three barriers preventing consumers recycling

By Laurence Gibbons

Bad habits, misconceptions and a lack of trust are the three main barriers preventing consumers from recycling, according to research by Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) and the University of Exeter.

Buying likes on Facebook is not good marketing practice, according to the Chartered Institute of Marketing

Ten commandments of social media launched

By Rick Pendrous

Social media should not be used by food and drink manufacturers and retailers to make false marketing claims as a means of driving sales, according to the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), which has launched a campaign to encourage companies to...

Catering staff must be trained to share allergy information

Sodexo gears up to meet allergen rule changes

By Rick Pendrous

Catering firm Sodexo has implemented a raft of food allergen procedures required for the meals it serves when the Food Information for Consumers Regulation (FIR) comes into force on December 13.

Dr Judith Bryans

Dairy UK opens its doors to the world

By Nicholas Robinson

Global dairy manufacturers can join Dairy UK as associate members for the first time, chief executive Dr Judith Bryans has told FoodManufacture.co.uk.

Jeff Hilton of Brandhive

Vitafoods Europe 2014

UK lacks US’s functional food panache

By Nicholas Robinson

Manufacturers in the US are better at responding to functional food demands than those in the UK, an expert specialising in the sector has claimed.

The food and drink industry needs a body to match the Automotive Council, said FDF president Richard Evans

FDF suggests industry body to match Automotive Council

By Michael Stones

British food and drink manufacturers should be represented by an industry council, similar to the car industry’s Automotive Council, said Richard Evans, Food and Drink Federation (FDF) president.

The Grow Movement charity works with food entrepreneurs in Africa

Could you help African food entrepreneurs?

By Nicholas Robinson

UK food and drink manufacturing professionals are being encouraged to mentor African entrepreneurs as a way of helping them to improve their underperforming businesses.

UK dairy industry must prepare to meet global demands, says Dairy UK chief executive Dr Judith Bryans

Dairy needs one message from government to grow

By Nicholas Robinson

Government must deliver one clear message on dairy if the sector is to contribute significantly to global demand for dairy products and compete with other nations, warned Dairy UK chief executive Judith Bryans.

David Jones (left) and Jonny Bingham have previously worked for high profile manufacturers (Photo©Sacha Ferrier)

Bakkavor and Greencore rivals join forces

By Rod Addy

Former food industry rivals Jonny Bingham and David Jones have joined forces to form Bingham & Jones, a firm advising major manufacturers and retailers on product development.

Automating arduous and mundane tasks such as palletising can free staff up to focus on more valuable jobs

FOODEX 2014

Food firms could treble productivity with lean tools

By Rod Addy

Food manufacturers could treble their productivity with no new resources by applying lean manufacturing tools, according to Professor Peter Hines, partner at lean consultancy SA Partners.

Lack of engineering know-how makes food firms scared about investing in automation, says one expert

FOODEX 2014

Fear factor, not cash, limits food factory automation

By Rod Addy

Food industry automation projects stall not because of lack of finance, but because of the ‘fear factor’ that firms won’t have engineers with the know-how to install or maintain systems.

Watkins: 'Any audit is just a snapshot in time'

FOODEX 2014

Beware due diligence issues post-horsegate – lawyer

By Rod Addy

Due diligence has weaknesses and isn’t a perfect defence against food fraud, despite offering firms legal protection, Dominic Watkins, partner and head of food at law firm DWF has warned.

Chancellor George Osborne's Budget drew mainly bouquets from business leaders

Budget 2014

Budget greeted mainly with bouquets but one brickbat

By Michael Stones

Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget has been greeted mainly with bouquets, as business leaders praised action on energy prices and exports, while some expressed disappointment about his failure to cut fuel duty.

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