Inside food & drink manufacturing
Food firms should be aware of the reputational and brand risks of using the “nuclear option” of dismissing staff and re-employing them on new contracts as a way of forcing through changes to employee terms and conditions.
A Wigan food manufacturer is aiming to create hundreds of jobs and grow turnover to £100M from an almost standing start.
Half of UK local authorities now offer kerbside recycling of beverage cartons – a 12-fold increase from 2006, new figures reveal.
Nearly 18M packets of processed food were dumped by British families after the horsemeat crisis, according to a new survey commissioned by kitchenware manufacturer Tefal.
A contractor’s fatal fall at Premier Foods’ Worksop site last week is being investigated by police and the Health and Safety Executive.
Have you got a burning question about the horsemeat crisis that you want answered? Then, ask our expert panel of speakers during Food Manufacture Group’s free one-hour webinar to be staged at 11am GMT on Thursday May 16.
Globalisation is leading to more adventurous consumers who are increasingly prepared to try spicy foods, including hot pepper sauces, according to the McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco pepper sauce.
Cost barriers are likely to stop the EU reaching its 20% renewable energy targets by 2020, warns a new report from Rabobank.
Food manufacturers need to work more closely with government, civil society and research organisations to build a sustainable food system, according to Forum for the Future.