Inside food & drink manufacturing
Oxford Farming Conference
Quitting the EU could spell ‘heaven or hell’ for the UK food and farming industry, according to two sharply contrasting views presented by former environment secretary Owen Paterson and EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan at the Oxford Farming Conference.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is to conduct a survey of its members early this year to gauge the weight of support among them for staying in EU.
Morrisons has denied any wrongdoing after coming under fire for registering a trademark for a “very similar brand” as JCS Fish’s BigFish.
Oxford Farming Conference
Action must be taken to tackle the “perfect nutritional storm” created by the obesity crisis and the row about sugar, warns Sainsbury’s director of brand Judith Batchelar.
Vimto maker Nichols has posted a fall in UK sales of 0.3% to £84.9M, in a declining market of 0.7% in a pre-close statement for the year ending December 31 2015.
New guidelines on the amount of alcohol people should drink in a week have received a lukewarm reaction from scientists and lobby groups.
Buyouts, alcohol and jobs lead this week’s selection of the top headlines from the UK food and drink manufacturing sector.
Asda has bought outright two multi-million pound meat manufacturing firms – Kober and Forza AW – in which it previously owned a stake.
High-protein meat and soya alternatives were on display at last month’s Food ingredients Europe exhibition in Paris.