Inside food & drink manufacturing
Guest article
The recent halal food scandals and reports of the presence of blood serums and offal in meat product tests serve to highlight several challenges for the food and drink industry.
A new plan to tackle childhood obesity by curbing sugar consumption from Action on Sugar (AoS) has been slated by food manufacturers.
Poultry processor Moy Park’s sponsorship of the World Cup in Brazil has helped it engage with 40% of the world, the firm’s director of brand marketing has claimed.
Reviving food brands from the past could prove even more lucrative if food businesses successfully tap into consumer nostalgia, according to Stuart Wilson, Burton’s Biscuit Company chief commercial officer.
The Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT) has appointed Asda’s operations compliance manager Alan Lacey as its new chairman.
Worcestershire-based Orchard Valley Foods has appointed Gill Hodgson as its new sales director.
Morrisons has fired another salvo in the intensifying supermarket price war with the launch of a further round of permanent price cuts.
North Yorkshire police were forced to close a section of the A64 for almost six hours after a lorry spilled mashed potato onto the carriageway trying to avoid a crash.
Morrisons has denied claims it will suffer from Netto’s re-entry onto the British supermarket scene, despite analyst claims it could prove vulnerable to a renewed round of price cutting.