Food and drink processors have been increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms for investment in their businesses, with some achieving great success.
Only half of the most popular vanilla ice creams on the high street have fresh milk, cream and vanilla on their list of ingredients, according to a consumer rights pressure group.
Ice cream manufacturer Kelly’s of Cornwall has pledged to replace all of the black plastic packaging used in its Clotted Cream variety with silver plastic, which is easier to recycle.
A range of CO2 packaged chillers with capacities from 30kW to 450kW has been launched by Green Thermal Energy (GTE) in conjunction with its Italian manufacturing partner Enex.
Meat, dairy and alcohol helped drive UK food and drink exports to £10.6bn for the first half of the year, with the US, China and Hong Kong the main recipients.
Temperature-controlled storage specialist Rick Bestwick, part of the Magnavale Group, has doubled its blast-freezing capacity to become one of the largest providers in the UK.
