Paul McCartney defends supermarkets in horsegate row
Pop icon Sir Paul McCartney has defended supermarkets in the intensifying row over horse meat contamination of beef burgers.
Archives for January 21, 2013
Tesco horse meat scandal takes off on Twitter
Twitter went wild with puns about horse meat burgers last week, as the British food industry struggled to come to terms with news that beef burgers sold by Tesco, and other retailers, had become contaminated with horse DNA. Here’s a selection of the best...
New 2 Sisters contract creates 100 sandwich manufacturing jobs
2 Sisters Food Group has won a new supply contract that will create 100 jobs at its Nottinghamshire sandwich manufacturing facility, Solway Foods.
Beef burger horse meat scandal ‒ in quotes
Prime minister David Cameron, Sir Paul McCartney and Tim Smith, Tesco’s group technical director and former Food Standards Agency boss, all feature in this collection of quotes about the discovery of horse and pig DNA in beef burgers sold by Tesco,...
£1.5M of government cash creates 50 jobs at pasty firm
A Cornish pasty firm has secured a government investment of £1.5M, which it will use to expand its business and create 50 jobs.
Big freeze and weak sales prompt triple-dip recession fears
Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning.
Overseas deals to drive food manufacturing mergers and acquisitions
The 2012 trend for major cross border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the UK food and drink industry is set to continue in 2013.
Groceries code adjudicator is former farming boss
A former boss of the Co-operative Group’s farming business, Christine Tacon, has been appointed as the groceries code adjudicator.