Inside food & drink manufacturing
Recent food and drink sector apprenticeship figures have shown about 3,500 apprentices starting a programme each year for the past two years; this is a good build on previous years, where figures hovered around 500 – 1,000.
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Galloway and West Dumfries Alex Fergusson has been appointed as chair of the inaugural review of the Dairy Industry Code of Best Practice.
Too many UK food and drink manufacturers are wasting huge amounts of money by not taking a more holistic approach to their asset care and maintenance operations, according to the boss of a leading specialist consultancy.
Consumers should not demonise food packaging, because it could prolong shelf-life, reducing the amount of products needlessly binned, according to the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
The loss of a major Marks & Spencer contract, threatening 650 jobs at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Avana Bakeries factory in Newport, Wales, is a “kick in the teeth”, according to one union representative.
Millionaires on the BBC TV programme Dragons’ Den invested £150,000 in UK food and drink manufacturing last night (Sunday February 11).
Food and drink manufacturers across the nation are invited to enter the Great British Bounce Back 2014 challenge, designed to showcase firms that are bouncing back from recession and investing in the future of their businesses.
Park Cakes has rejected claims by the Bakers’ Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) that its success in winning a multi-million pound contract from Marks & Spencer (M&S) was driving the firm’s bid to cut workers’ pay and conditions at its Oldham bakery,...
Investing nearly £1M into a distillery has allowed Adnams the brewer to side-step into a new market and diversify its offering, according chief executive Dr Andy Wood.
Trading Standards (TS) don’t have the resources to check for the potentially dangerous unapproved novel foods illegally on sale on the UK market, it has emerged.
The huge number of labelling changes set out in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (FIR) will come a shock to some firms, warns Reading Scientific Services.
Fewer local authority inspections of food businesses are encouraging food fraud, warns the boss of the West Yorkshire Food Control Laboratory, after its tests recently revealed more than a third of food and drink products sampled were fake.
It’s the final countdown to meet the new Food Information Regulation, reports Nicholas Robinson.
Samworth Brothers has acquired Soreen for an undisclosed sum in a deal that has been well received by employees of the high profile malt and fruit loaf firm.