Inside food & drink manufacturing
Cake, bread and bakery goods manufacturer Finsbury Food Group expects to post full-year profit ahead of market expectations, thanks to market promotions and cost cutting, according to its pre-close trading statement for the year to June 28.
Dairy processor Adams Foods has put recent job cut reports in perspective, stressing the 700-strong workforce had suffered just seven redundancies at its Leek factory, with production line staff unaffected.
Tesco shoppers have donated 5.1M meals, weighing 2,135t, to people in need this year.
2 Sisters Food Group’s non executive director Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has left the business to take up the role of business minister.
This year’s Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEAs) – with their James Bond theme – are your opportunity to create a stir for your food or drink manufacturing business.
Aldi is the brand creating the most positive media buzz, according to YouGov BrandIndex’s 2014 mid-year Buzz rankings, with both it and fellow discounter Lidl among the top 10 for the first time.
Serious disruption to the meat supply chain could be caused if Food Standards Agency (FSA) meat inspectors vote in favour of a strike over pay next week, according to industry bosses.
Supplements and other sports nutrition could play a role in helping to prevent bone injuries and infections common in high-intensity training programmes, specialists have been told.
Functional food manufacturers should prepare to take advantage of a popular free-from diet developed in Australia and already emerging in the UK, experts have said.
Ingredients firm Orchard Valley Foods is targeting sales of £30M following its acquisition of Food Ingredients International (FII), an increase of almost a third on projected figures for this year.
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Soft drinks maker Cawingredients is investing £42M in its site at Leeming Bar Industrial Estate in North Yorkshire, creating more than 100 jobs and boosting production and warehouse capacity.
South Caernarfon Creameries is investing £8.5M in a new cheese production facility at its site in Chwilog, north Wales.