Inside food & drink manufacturing
The government looks set to abandon targets for reducing salt next year under a revised Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) focusing on calorie reduction of foods sold and increasing people’s physical activity.
Renewed interest in health and wellness leads the top 10 trends set to dominate the UK food and drink sector in 2012, according to Leatherhead Food Research.
British bakers are setting the standards for their European colleagues to match, according to the Federation of British Bakers (FBB), following a consumer trends survey from Danish enzyme specialist Novozymes.
Ocean Spray Cranberries is channelling millions of dollars into expanding global cranberry processing capacity, making it easier for UK concentrate manufacturers to secure supplies.
The Kerry Group has completed its acquisition of Cargill’s global flavours operation.
Up to 55 jobs could be lost at Müller Dairy UK, which makes yogurts at its North Shropshire dairy.
Workers at a cheese packing plant hit by fire in September have been warned they could lose their jobs.