Two Essex-based bakeries and their directors must pay £10,000 in court costs and damages for the misuse of equipment belonging to bread basket management firm Bakers Basco.
Premier Foods’ chief executive officer (CEO) Gavin Darby has survived a shareholder revolt led by stakeholders Oasis Management Company designed to oust him from his position.
Premier Foods’ Mr Kipling cakes and Batchelors Super Noodles ranges helped fuel sales growth in the first financial quarter of 2018, although it reported the strongest percentage growth in own-label products.
Bakery firm Finsbury Food Group has said “unprecedented” commodity and labour inflation continued to blight the business after announcing a fall in annual revenue.
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Food manufacturers are being invited to apply for a share of a £750,000 research fund into better coeliac disease diagnostics and gluten-free food production.
A total of 150 jobs could be created at Samworth Brothers’ Bradgate Bakery site in Leicester, if plans to build an extension at the factory are approved by the local council.
Robinsons Brewery has worked with the Isle of Man’s Ballakelly Farm to create a Trooper Light Brigade Steak & Ale Pie, flavoured with Robinsons’ Trooper Light Brigade ale.
Wrights Food Group will have recruited 100 more workers over the course of this year as demand grows for its savoury and sweet baked goods, ready meals and sandwiches, the company pledged.
Premier Foods has moved to offer support to chief executive officer Gavin Darby following reports that shareholder Oasis Management Company intends to vote against his re-election.
Ginsters aims to inject new life into the savoury pastries market, with the launch of redesigned packaging for recently launched products to attract new customers, including a younger demographic.
Coffee manufacturer Lincoln & York has topped this year’s league table of medium-sized businesses with the fastest-growing international sales, according to the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200.
Ritz, Oreo, Cadbury Biscuits and Belvita are to become greener to produce after Mondelēz International pledged to use 100% sustainable wheat in all of its biscuits in the UK by 2022, as part of its Harmony programme.
Brexit can and should champion British producers, according to leaders of the British food and farming industry, who have called on the Government to maintain frictionless trade with the EU post-Brexit.
Pladis’ Dee Smith reveals how continuous investment, community work and a focus on staff health and wellbeing translate into a positive working culture.
Biscuit International has bought Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF) from CriSeren Foods in a move designed to boost business for both processors in gluten-free and milk-free biscuits.
Bakery ingredients supplier Real Good Food (RGF) has secured at least £8.2m of additional funding from its three major shareholders, after facing severe financial challenges over the past 12 months.
The UK’s appetite for gourmet burgers has prompted Lantmännen Unibake UK to invest £1.1m in a burger bun line at its Milton Keynes plant as part of a wider £4.4m spend to fuel growth.
McVitie’s and Godiva owner Pladis has appointed former Bacardi chief marketing officer Dmitry Ivanov to the newly created role of chief commercial officer.
Baked goods supplier Lantmännen Unibake UK has appointed Richard Stowey as its new operations director, in charge of the company’s strategic development and growth strategy.
Associated British Foods (ABF) continued to battle falling sales of sugar in the 24 weeks to 3 March 2018, as it reported profit growth across all of its other businesses in its interim results.
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.
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.
Al-Ummah Halal Poultry of Barnsley has agreed to pay £18,000 in costs and damages to Bakers Basco, after using its bakery equipment without permission.
Finsbury Food Group’s UK bakery business resisted soaring butter prices and increases in other costs to grow sales and keep operating profit broadly flat, while group operating profit rose.
An advert for Go Ahead Goodness bars, produced by United Biscuits, has been banned after it was deemed misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Welsh pie and pasty maker Village Bakery has won planning permission to open a new site at an industrial estate in Wrexham, with plans to create new jobs for the area.
High street baker Greggs has posted a £3.6M boost in its operating profit for the year ending 30 December 2017, as it continues to invest in consolidating its manufacturing operations and expanding its logistics capacity.
