Archives for April 11, 2016

Lean webinar

Greencore’s tasty savings from lean manufacturing

Convenience food group Greencore will feature in Food Manufacture’s free, one-hour webinar, dedicated to lean and green food and drink manufacturing and evaluation processes, scheduled to take place at 11am on Tuesday April 26.

Me and my factory

Délifrance UK in focus: meet the operations manager at Southall

Délifrance UK's Frank Bird tells Noli Dinkovski how a varied career has led to his current strategic role.

Cranswick buys poultry producer Crown for £40M

Diversified meat business Cranswick has bought poultry producer Crown and its subsidiary Crown Chicken for £40M, in a move that will boost earnings this year.

Food deflation persists in UK despite rises elsewhere

Food deflation remains a persistent feature of the UK economy, despite the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing headline inflation up 0.5% in March.

M&S boss wins backing despite food sales ‘below expectations’

City analysts have backed the new boss at Marks & Spencer (M&S), Steve Rowe, after the company unveiled food sales below analysts’ expectations.  

More food producers go bust, after ‘supermarket price war’

The rate of food manufacturers going bust has tripled in five years – with an 11% rise in firms going out of business in the past year alone – as a direct result of “cut-throat competition” between the UK’s leading supermarkets, warns accounting and...