Meat and dairy snacks performed strongly for Kerry Foods in the past financial year, with Fridge Raiders doing well, fuelled by promotions and a Call of Duty marketing campaign.
Irish dairy cooperative Ornua has secured a €610M (£538M) bank facility over the next five years, as it continued to support growth in the dairy industry.
A combination of high commodity prices and labour costs are a “constant attrition”, hindering growth at one of the UK’s biggest bakery firms, its group finance director has claimed.
Two new varieties of a product that can directly replace butter or margarine, but is said to be healthier and up to half the price, have been developed by the Carotino Group.
Manufacturer and ingredients importer Key Food Ingredients has been placed into administration, due to volatile cream and butter prices earlier this year.
Graham’s The Family Dairy is pumping £1M into production facilities at its Aithrey Kerse Farm at Bridge of Allan in Scotland to boost spreadable butter capabilities and increase flexibility.
New product development opportunities lie in the nut-based and sweet spread category, particularly with regard to ingredient flavour and multi-use innovation, according to new research from Mintel.
I was going to write about sugar being the new salt for the healthy diet campaigners. But I changed my mind when I looked at the government’s Change4Life so-called Smart Swaps online. What a muddle!
Salt levels in butter, margarine, fats and spreads are “shockingly high and unnecessary”, warns the pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).
International dairy food group Glanbia Consumer Foods is seeking to raise its profile in the UK. The firm, which has its headquarters in Ireland, has appointed logistics firm Culina to manage the distribution of its chilled products in the UK.
Milk processor Arla is to produce Anchor butter in the UK for the first time, after the firm moves production to its Westbury site in Wiltshire from New Zealand.
Norfolk-based cold pressed rapeseed oil producer Larchwood Foods has developed two oils to meet the requirements of the food manufacturing sector: Larchwood Foods Extra Virgin Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil and Larchwood Foods Extra Virgin High Oleic Cold...
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours developed Beatreme to enable processors to meet the demands of health-conscious consumers within an indulgent profile by lowering saturated fat levels.
Bakery ingredients supplier CSM UK has reduced the saturated fat content of its cake margarine.Craigmillar Marvello RSF Blend cake margarine contains...
Dairy manufacturers and supermarkets will receive a welcome boost to their coffers in the form of a rebate from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) this summer after the watchdog agreed to reduce fines in its price-fixing probe.
National Starch Food Innovation has unveiled a starch for the reduced fat cake market. The firm claims that manufacturers can now create high-quality...
Chilli flavoured pastry and garlic pizza bases could soon be on our supermarket shelves thanks to a new cutting-edge technology. Elaine Watson talks hard fats
Brookfield texture analysers offer an easy, accurate way to determine the characteristics of cheese and other dairy productsThe LFRA texture analyser...
