Inside food & drink manufacturing
Soaring input costs and increasing competition between suppliers serving retailers is driving the use of electronic trading systems such as Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and Advance Shipment Notices (ASNs), according to one leading e-commerce specialist.
Concern is rising about the ability of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to carry out its statutory enforcement responsibilities as its budgets come under severe financial pressure.
Frederick's Dairies says it could be interested in buying parts of South Wales ice cream firm Loseley, after a media report this week stated that private equity backer the Foresight Group had stopped funding the company.
A new label being piloted on chocolate could enable the sustainability of different food brands to be compared.
Food sector M&A experts believe it is more likely that a trade buyer – rather than a private equity player – could bid for convenience food firm Uniq, after its board announced a "number of indications of interest from third parties" in the firm on April 1.
The UK market for chewing- and bubble gum has hit a sticky patch, says research firm Key Note, with a focus from major brands such as Wrigley on mint gum marking a return to “simpler and more effective products”.
97 jobs are at risk at Medina Dairy’s site in Tyneside, after the firm revealed last week that a 30-day consultation with staff had begun.
Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients UK md Simon Solway has greeted the news that US firm Dawn Foods wishes to acquire his firm as a “very positive move”.