Inside food & drink manufacturing
Millennials – those aged between 18 and 34 – are expected to have a huge impact on supply chains over the next few years as they transform the way consumers shop, according to a new study.
Dawn Foods’s boss Chris Jenkins urged food and drink businesses to show the courage of their convictions in order to secure business success.
Hovis has outsourced its electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements to TrueCommerce Europe, a HighJump company, in a move designed to reduce costs and the time taken to bring new customers on-board.
Sainsbury has agreed the key terms of a £1.3bn offer for Argos owner Home Retail in a bid to create a food and non-food retail giant.
A student has threatened legal action unless Nestlé provides her with a lifetime supply of her favourite chocolate bar Kit Kat, after she purchased a multipack in which none of the bars contained a wafer biscuit.
Iceland has signed a new three-year deal with pallet provider CHEP that is expected to deliver supply chain efficiencies in the frozen food supermarket chain’s operations, both in the UK and internationally.
Gregory Distribution has selected 10 trailers fitted with refrigeration systems to support a contract with Mondelēz International to deliver Cadbury chocolate.
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) has been recognised as a centre of expertise in food authenticity testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The Co-operative has implemented a new telematics system for managing its transport fleet to support its plans to open 120 new shops in 2016.
Food industry manufacturers, suppliers and retailers should no longer think of their supply chains as linear, and instead organise themselves in a series of networks around consumers, a joint report by consultancy firm Capgemini and The Consumer Goods...