Inside food & drink manufacturing
Election 2015
Tesco and Sainsbury shoppers are most likely to vote Conservative, Asda and Morrisons customers favour Labour and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has the highest support among Sainsbury’s shoppers.
A pastry firm is creating 43 jobs in Strabane, Northern Ireland, as a result of a £7.4M investment.
The battle against campylobacter, Britain’s leading cause of food poisoning, has been compromised by the big four supermarkets’ price war against discount stores Aldi and Lidl, warns Bernard Matthews group technical director Jeremy Hall.
Manufacturers must take the threat of bribery more seriously by putting in place measures to safeguard against it, a legal expert has advised. The warning comes as new figures suggest a third of food firms have no protection in place against such illegal...
A Cornish confectionery company has pumped £600,000 into a new site, tripling production space and creating six new jobs.
The UK food industry is switching on to the benefits of automation amid growing pressure to cut costs, according to engineering component specialist European Automation.
The UK’s food regulations are not tough enough to prevent products produced around the Fukushima nuclear disaster area from making it onto supermarket shelves, experts have warned.
Retailers are understood to be taking measures to address a shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers, having previously denied that the issue could potentially cripple the perishable food sector.
Up to 70 jobs could go at dairy co-operative First Milk as the business restructures after struggling with cash flow issues.
Fears have been raised about the wider possible contamination of frozen food with the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in Europe, and the potentially deadly threat this poses to vulnerable individuals, following serious food poisoning outbreaks...
Food and drink start-ups must understand their market and competition and prove their product could disrupt it and bring benefits for retailer before approaching a buyer, according to Sainsbury.