Inside food & drink manufacturing
Staff at Longbenton Foods’ Amble site are feeling ‘real bitterness’ after production stopped yet again due to an ongoing dispute with administrator Begbies Trayner, according to a local town councillor.
London-based Bompass & Parr says its flavour-changing chewing gum that brings Willy Wonka’s famous three-course meal confection closer to reality could be on sale within 12 months.
Arla Foods’ proposed £150m 1bn litre 'super-dairy' in Aylesbury will create 680 skilled jobs, while the development of commercial space next door could create 500 more, bosses have claimed.
Manufacturers are hoping that a new campaign designed to engage punters about the merits of organic food and drink will translate into hard cash at the tills.