Inside food & drink manufacturing
A smoked fish supplier, the nation’s largest independent cider producer and a label manufacturer are among 10 food and drink businesses to appear on Investec’s Hot 100 list of the UK’s fastest-growing, mid-sized private companies.
Dunbia’s new £12M Llanybydder factory in Wales will help Sainsbury’s plans to boost sales of British food, according to Justin King, ceo of the supermarket chain.
The European Parliament today threw its weight behind the banning of child pictures on baby formula packaging and the abolition of dietetic foods which EU chiefs said had been “cannibalised by marketing tools”.
Positive developments at 2 Sisters Food Group plants in Scotland and Wales are more evidence of ceo Ranjit Boparan’s shrewdness, according to industry commentator Julian Wild of law firm Rollits.
Soft drinks firm Britvic may seek improved terms for its partnership with AG Barr, after the Competition Commission gave provisional approval for the merger today (June 11).
The future of Britain’s food industry outside the EU will feature in a conference to be staged by grain marketing and storage co-operative Fengrain at the East of England Showground, Peterborough on November 7 2013.
Food manufacturers and retailers need to use waste and surplus goods to benefit local communities, rather than as potential revenue streams.