Meadow Foods has invested millions of pounds in expanding its dairy manufacturing site in Peterborough, which it expects will lead to the creation of 50 jobs.
Pink gin, pea crisps and vegan ice cream are just some of the new products and trends that have been on display at this year’s Speciality & Fine Food Fair, which took place at London’s Olympia from 2–4 September.
Sales of organic food and drink continued to grow for their seventh consecutive year, according to new research published by certification body the Soil Association.
Dairy processor Arla is to pay out the entirety of its 2018 net profit to its farmer partners, who were hit by the extreme weather conditions in Europe.
International trade secretary Liam Fox has secured a multi-million pound export deal with China to supply UK dairy products made with milk from third countries.
Errington Cheese, the Scottish cheesemaker linked to a fatal outbreak of E.coli O157 in 2016, has made the last of its remaining staff redundant, as sales dropped in spite of a ruling that cleared the company of breaching hygiene regulations.
Trade association Dairy UK and the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB’s) dairy division have spent £1.2m on a campaign to persuade millennials to stick with dairy.
