Strikes suspended at drinks giants, but disputes continue
Workers at Coca-Cola Enterprise’s (CCE’s) largest bottling and distribution centre based in Wakefield were due to start a second 48 hour strike...
Archives for August 12, 2007
Underwood builds presence in catering sector
Underwood Meat Company has bought Northern Catering (Sheffield) for an undisclosed sum, enabling it to further expand in the foodservice arena.The...
Grant Thornton’s call to tackle supermarket “bully-boy tactics”
Supermarkets are finding “ever more ingenious ways” of extracting money from their suppliers in order to boost profit margins in an increasingly...
Technical management skills crisis
The skills shortage in technical roles is such that one in five food manufacturers does not have a permanent technical manager on the pay roll,...
Butterkist plant activated after multi-million pound refit
Production has started again at Cadbury Trebor Bassett’s Monkhill confectionery factory in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, two years after it was...