Job losses announced at Walkers’ Peterlee crisp factory
Around 50 workers will lose their jobs at Walkers Peterlee crisp factory in County Durham, owner PepsiCo UK has confirmed.
Archives for November 12, 2010
Premier Foods in talks with Princes over two sites
Premier Foods is in talks with Princes over the sale of its canning sites at Wisbech and Long Sutton in a bid to reduce its debt pile, FoodManufacture.co.uk understands.
Multiples wouldn't commit to Fenland, analyst
While the supermarkets have expressed “some interest” in the re-opening of the mothballed Fenland Foods factory, Northern Foods has been unable to secure firm commitments from any of them that would justify spending the £30-40m it would cost to make this...
M&S, Cadbury, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Nestlé UK and Alara Wholefoods join the lineup at Food Manufacture's Sustainable Supply Chain conference
If doing your bit for the planet used to be a good way of earning a few brownie points, it is now increasingly becoming a condition of doing business with the nation’s biggest food retailers.
FM Excellence Awards
Ice ice baby! Askeys scoops judges' special prize at FM annual awards
From cornets to wafers, cones to toppings, Askeys is the only game in town if you are after top notch ice cream accompaniments, site manager Abdullah Khan tells Food Manufacture's deputy editor Rod Addy after walking away with the Judges' Special Award...