Salad firm to pay £30k for runaway platform fall
An accident involving a runaway mobile working platform has resulted in a worker fracturing her skull and a £30,000 bill for her employer.
Archives for July 13, 2014
Weetabix in jobs consultation with 60 staff
Pressure to stem eroding profits has led Weetabix to place up to 60 jobs across its industrial hygiene departments at risk.
Obesity webinar
Obesity crisis demands more food science research
More research is needed to counter Britain’s burgeoning obesity crisis, according to the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST), which helped the Food Manufacture Group stage an independent, free, one-hour video on the subject earlier this month.
Bond-themed manufacturing awards celebrate food industry
This year’s Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEAs) – with their James Bond theme – aim to celebrate the best of British food and drink manufacturing.
Food packaging firm appoints new manager
Food and drink packaging firm Clondalkin Group has appointed Rob Moore as its new key account manager.
2 Sisters Corby plant a management buyout target
2 Sisters Food Group’s Solway Foods plant is the target of a management buyout by the same company formed to take over its Avana Bakeries facility: Utopia Foods.