Beverages manufacturer The Juice Executive has more than doubled its sales in the 12 months to November 2017, after increasing contract manufacturing orders and acquiring juice firm Radiance Cleanse.
A Unilever report recently claimed that collaboration between large manufacturers and start-ups was now a ‘strategic imperative’. But leading ingredients suppliers are also now starting to play an equally entrepreneurial role in investing in food and...
New product development (NPD) is the biggest opportunity for food and drink manufacturers over the next 12 months, while fewer firms are positive about business prospects, according to a survey by advisory firm BDO.
More than 120 global food and agriculture start-up firms are competing for a place at the agribusiness bank Rabobank’s business mentorship scheme competition, Foodbytes.
Snack firms Kolak Food Snacks Ltd and Europe Snacks have merged to form a £225M (€250M) manufacturing business, which employs 1,400 people and produces more than 1.4bn packs a year.
Creative insights are the real drivers of business growth in food and drink and yet, all too often, companies stick with the safe option, adopting a tick-box approach to innovation, according to leading consultants in the field.
Food and drink start-ups should have a strong brand identity, continuously improve their product and research both the market and consumer response to their product.
Food and drink firms seeking crowdfunding must provide detailed business information to ensure they stand out from the competition to potential investors.
Aryzta has pledged to shake up the ethnic baking category, creating UK business Signature Flatbreads with the help of the former bosses of Aryzta subsidiary Honeytop Speciality Foods.
Pact Coffee founder Stephen Rapoport scooped the crown at the first Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year awards, held at the House of Commons last week.
Bank and market analyst Investec has launched a hunt to find a food or drink business that has reinvented its category to crown its ‘Food & Drink entrepreneur of the year’.
Big food and drink manufacturers should invest in small firms to protect their income streams and benefit from injecting an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit into their businesses.
Small food and drink firms and entrepreneurs can benefit from a new website that offers businesses without retail contracts opportunities to market their products.
10 small food and drink businesses will get the chance to pitch their products to the head buyers for Sainsbury as part of a new initiative to provide companies with a direct route onto retailers’ shelves.
A new joint venture between drinks giant Diageo and creative business investor Independents United will offer up to £15M of investment to entrepreneurs looking to break into the spirits sector.
You only have to look at the number of money-making ideas for food and drink products that make it on to BBC TV's Dragons' Den to recognise that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Britain.
BBC TV Apprentice finalist Nick Holzherr officially launched his ‘Whisk’ food app business today (January 7), which has integrated the online delivery systems of Tesco and Waitrose.
Appearing on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den helped Yorkshire cake entrepreneur Allison Whitmarsh secure the backing she needs to build cake factories across the UK.
Passion and planning ability are the two key qualities for launching a career as a successful food entrepreneur, according to Caribbean food guru Levi Roots.
The use of innovative flavourings and a consumer drive for healthier food is expected to contribute to major growth in the UK frozen yogurt market, according to industry experts.
Samworth Brothers' chief executive Brian Stein will have the satisfaction of looking back on 16 years of successful leadership of the chilled foods manufacturer when he passes on the reins next year. Stein has helped create a hugely successful business,...
They're no strangers to awards at Freshway Foods. Voted Sandwich Manufacturer of the Year in 2002/3, the Wolverhampton-based company has since picked...
