Brexit vote forces salad firm to close: 250+ job losses
Salad supplier Southern Salads has entered administration and “all but a handful” of its 260 workers have lost their jobs, after the value of sterling plummeted following the Brexit vote.
Archives for August 17, 2017
Food firms ‘hamstrung’ by date labels
Newly-consolidated date-labelling guidelines aim to help reduce food waste, but do nothing to allay the fear of prosecution which makes manufacturers more, rather than less, cautious in this area, according to one legal expert.
Exports reach record £10.2bn as EU sales jump
UK food and drink exports reached a record-high of £10.2bn in the first half of this year, as exports to EU countries topped £6bn for the first time.
Food industry ‘ready for calorie-reduction challenge’
The food and drink industry will rise to the challenge of helping to reduce children’s calorie intake, says the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), as the government launches the next stage of its childhood obesity plan.
Egg contamination spreads to liquid egg products
The probe into imported egg products contaminated with the insecticide has spread to food products made with imported liquid eggs, manufacturers have been warned, after Professor Chris Elliott predicted an intensification of the scandal last week.
FDF welcomes government’s Irish soft border plan
The government’s plan to rule out a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic has been welcomed by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
‘Millions of pounds of drugs’ found at frozen store
Suspected class A drugs, worth millions of pounds, have been discovered by police at Yearsley Logistics’ frozen food storage site in Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire.
Food exports: ‘government must do more to help’
The UK is “open for business” with the rest of the world, but government needs to do more to promote food and drink exports before and after Brexit, a senior figure at the Department for International Trade (DIT) has suggested.
Reckitt sells food business to McCormick for £3.2bn
Reckitt Benckiser is to sell its food business to McCormick, in a deal which values the condiments business at £3.2bn ($4.2bn).