Inside food & drink manufacturing
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon aims to crack down on retailers charging suppliers hundreds of thousands of pounds for discrepancies on promotions going back up to six years.
The Billington Group has strengthened its food portfolio by snapping up TSC Foods, the firm behind Glorious! soup for an undisclosed sum.
United Biscuits will become the “Cadbury” or “Kellogg” of the snack world, after big investments in production and marketing, pledges the manufacturer’s boss Martin Glenn.
Consumers have not lost interest in eating meat, despite vegan organisations pushing a meat-free agenda, recent data has shown.
Arla Foods has pledged to invest up to £243M in expanding global production.
Dairy Crest has been ordered to pay £95,000 after a fatal accident at its Davidstow creamery, near Camelford, Cornwall.
“The biggest overhaul of food labelling for over 25 years,” is how Premier Foods summarises the implications of the EU’s new Food Information to Consumers Regulation – due to be enforced on December 13 2014.
Nestlé’s sports nutrition brands PowerBar and Musashi, have been snapped up by US firm Post Holdings in a deal first mooted in September last year.
Food manufacturers that aren’t working on innovative new products risk the failure of their businesses and losing out to those firms that are, according to the new innovation director at 2 Sisters Food Group.
Further details of a Premier Foods’s debt reduction deal did not surprise City analysts, although they claimed the press reports represented little real progress.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has rejected claims in the Daily Mail that “the food industry lobby has been given unprecedented access to the heart of government”.