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Weetabix Food Company, the cereals and snacks maker with operations at Burton Latimer and Corby in Northamptonshire, has announced a new engineering and manufacturing apprenticeship programme at Tresham College of further and higher education in Kettering.
Catering industry food supplier Bidvest Fresh has bought Knight Meats for an undisclosed sum.
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Crowdsourcing has become the “new normal” for new product development among leading global companies, and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands are leading the way, the director of a leading provider has claimed.
A landmark judgement, handed down last month by the High Court in favour of meat processor Newby Foods, confirms that meat processed by the company’s novel methods can be classified as fresh meat, and not mechanically separated meat (MSM).
Moy Park aims to create 59 jobs in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire at a proposed hatchery designed to produce 2.4m birds a week.