Inside food & drink manufacturing
Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has rejected claims by Unite the union of making “a paltry pay offer”, after more than 100 members of the union staged two one-day strikes on September 22 and 24 at the firm’s Banbury site in Oxfordshire.
Liberal Democrat conference
New Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) minister David Heath said he wished there was a hit TV show called CSI Sainsbury to tempt scientists away from forensics and into the food industry. ’−
Europe’s largest own-label ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream was fined £10,000 yesterday (September 24), after a 20-year worker was injured by a conveyor belt.
Food and drink manufacturers are optimistic about sales for the remainder of the year, according to the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF’s) latest Food and Drink Business Confidence survey.