Damian Killen, factory manager at the Heinz (UK) baby food plant at Kendal in the Lake District, explains to FoodManufacture.co.uk what the company’s Global Performance System has meant for staff.
Allied Bakeries operations director, Nick Law, tells FoodManufacture.co.uk what makes a good manager. In an age of skills shortages, Law tells Mike Stones that the company looks for leaders, who drive staff to achieve more at a higher level collectively...
Manufacturers have committed to doing more to attract bright young people into the food sector and avert the impending skills crisis threatening its future.
Meet Natures Way, winner of the 2010 Food Manufacturing Excellence award for Fresh Produce and Gary Kilhams, fruit business unit manager, Natures Way Foods.
Hull based Jackson’s Bakery has announced plans to spend £5.5m on two new buildings and complementary machinery at its existing site, potentially creating up to 40 new jobs.
Holland’s Pies md Ed Hyslop has left the firm, with industry insiders identifying him as the first high-profile casualty of businessman Ranjit Boparan's move to restructure management at Northern Foods.
DIY instructions always sound so easy. First, assemble item A to item B. Then screw together with item C but do not tighten as item D is yet to be inserted in the gap (see picture 1) – use screws (a) supplied.
Premier Foods has today announced that its chief executive, Robert Schofield will be retiring once a successor has been appointed and no later than April 28 2012.
We live in uncertain times. I am sure I’m not alone in being concerned by recent global events that are the backdrop to other worries closer to home, such as the fragile state of our economy and the impact of swingeing public sector cuts.
Sausage maker Blakeman says switching to Solarsoft’s Tropos enterprise resource planning (ERP) system has cut quality control staff costs and boosted production efficiency by 15–20%.
Managers at Northumbrian Fine Foods have bought the company off private equity owners and plan to invest in the business in a bid to push turnover above £12m in 2011.
A new forum for food logistics has been launched, which will enable supply chain managers to collaborate and share ideas about new ways of working together.
Automation can make a major contribution to the bottom line. But the logic behind where and how you automate processes is not as simple as might first appear...
Pork pie manufacturer Pork Farms has doubled the capacity of the data capture system at its Queen’s Drive factory in Nottingham so that it covers the entire site.
The administrator running the former PoleStar Foods frozen desserts business at Leamington Spa says he has had “several expressions of interest” in the business.
Maintenance specialist Brammer has clinched a major contract to supply a full range of manufacturing, repair and overhaul (MRO) products to brewing and distilling giant Diageo.
Demand planning accuracy at Lactalis-Nestlé Chilled Dairy UK has surged 10% to 85% over the past two years leading to a significant improvement in availability and a huge drop in waste in a category in which 70% of volumes are now sold on promotion.
Neil Court-Johnston has been named as the new md of the foodservice division at pie, pasty and sausage roll-maker Peter’s, five months after his controversial exit from Holland’s Pies.
Are you prepared for the next sudan-1 or melamine scandal? What are the food safety risks threatening the food supply chains of tomorrow, and do you have the technical and financial resources to deal them them?
The crumpet department at Hovis Greenford has now gone paper-free with the Principle Suite system from Applied Principles. The system had previously been successfully trialled in the bread plant at Greenford.
Using a web-based system to handle supplier approvals has boosted significantly the efficiency of supplier compliance management (SCM) at Unilever, supply chain bosses have revealed.
Soft drinks firm A G Barr is closing its Mansfield production site and has started a £10M investment in increased production capacity at its Cumbernauld site.
You have been very naughty. Now go to your room and forget about dessert! Before you have any inappropriate thoughts, let me tell you that I am dead serious. You have been telling lies and you ought to be punished.
The industry must develop skills including scientific and technical, analytical and leadership competencies to address future challenges, according to Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive of grocery think tank IGD.
Dave Turvey, operations director, Kerrygold, LeekI didn't do fantastically well in my school exams, but I was pretty good at football. So when I left...
Carlsberg has been slammed by an organisation representing small businesses for extending its payment terms to 95 days, counting from the end of the...
