Warburtons, Genius Foods and Northumbrian Fine Foods are founder members of the Gluten Free Industry Association (GFIA), formed in response to the growth of the market for gluten-free products.
Gluten-free product launches accounted for 10% of new food products globally, which was partly due to better labelling rules, new data from Innova Market Insights has shown.
Food coatings firm Bowman Ingredients will make a ‘multi-million pound’ investment in the UK’s first dedicated production facility for gluten-free products, it has claimed.
There is a “low risk” coeliacs could suffer side-effects from the recent Genius Foods’s product recall despite many consumers voicing their anger and disappointment on social media, a free-from expert has claimed.
The big four supermarkets and Waitrose have all been forced to recall a selection of their gluten-free products because they may contain gluten, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed.
Sausage maker The Black Farmer has thrown its weight behind a Lancaster University Management School project to find out the precise motivations behind consumers turning to gluten-free products.
Fresh research has rubbished claims gluten-free diets are healthier than consuming grains and has recommended they should only be followed by consumers with coeliac disease or food intolerances.
Pork Farms has pumped half a million pounds into a new gluten-free (GF) bakery brand that is being manufactured at its chilled quiche Riverside Bakery in Nottingham.
The amount of people diagnosed with coeliac disease has increased at a “staggering rate” over the past two decades, according to the boss of Allergy UK.
The UK free-from market is forecast to grow by 46% to £561M by 2017, but it is still characterised by the reluctance of many major manufacturers do “dip their toes in the market”.
Genius Foods will invest millions of pounds developing the Livwell and United Central Bakery (UCB) production sites in Hull and West Lothian, following the firm’s £21M acquisition of the companies last week.
Gluten-free food sales could balloon after fresh research from the University of Hawaii has identified a new condition known as gluten sensitivity, which responds positively to a gluten-free diet.
Free-from food manufacturers are increasingly waking up to the sector’s potential, according to Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, author of the Foods Matter website and founder of the Free-From Food Awards.
The launch of two new gluten-free products by Dr Schär UK is further evidence of the category’s move from niche to mainstream lifestyle choice, according to the free-from manufacturer.
Stiletto Foods md Jeremy Woods says the secret of his firm’s success, following a raft of new retail listings for its £15m gluten- and wheat-free brand Mrs Crimble’s – is the fact that it is a bakery business first and foremost, then a ‘free from’ foods...
"Would you eat this?" asks Stiletto Foods md Jeremy Woods, thrusting forth a nondescript looking bar with the words ‘diabetic chocolate’ emblazoned over the front.
The next generation easy-to-open can, sodium-free ingredients that enhance salt perception and technology that can stop gluten-free pasta going mushy and prevent green veg from turning brown in the canning process.
Hampshire-based Stiletto Foods has made its first foray into the US market after striking a deal with natural foods giant Whole Foods Market that will see Mrs Crimble's free-from products listed in five of Whole Foods Market’s 11 regions in the US.
