The Ultimate Food Company, based in Kendal, which made puddings, including some under the Famous Grouse brand under licence, has gone into administration due to a “number of issues”.
UK consumers are set to buy up 200,000 turkey crowns and birds tomorrow (December 22) from Tesco, as 20M people visit its stores on the last Friday before Christmas.
Private equity firm Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) has sold its stake in dessert manufacturer Ministry of Cake to French counterpart Mademoiselle Desserts, for an undisclosed sum.
More than 100 jobs will be lost in Manchester, after ready meals manufacturer Malton Foods bought the ambient pots, pouches and canned pudding business of Simpson Ready Foods for an undisclosed sum.
The loss of a major Marks & Spencer contract, threatening 650 jobs at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Avana Bakeries factory in Newport, Wales, is a “kick in the teeth”, according to one union representative.
Up to 350 new food manufacturing roles will be created in at Hain Daniels’s Fakenham site in Norfolk, after the firm agreed a pudding partnership with Sainsbury.
New Covent Garden soup owner the Hain Celestial Group is to grow soup sales in the UK, Ireland and the US after its acquisition of Irish chilled soup specialist Cully & Sully.
