More job gains than losses were announced in the food and drink manufacturing sector in the past six months, FoodManufacture.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
Five thousand food jobs in Scotland and Wales have been safeguarded after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approved the 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisition of Vion UK’s poultry business.
Positive developments at 2 Sisters Food Group plants in Scotland and Wales are more evidence of ceo Ranjit Boparan’s shrewdness, according to industry commentator Julian Wild of law firm Rollits.
Around 1,200 workers at the 2 Sisters Food Group’s sites in the West Midlands are being balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay and conditions and a culture of alleged bullying.
A food factory worker was rushed to hospital with spinal injuries yesterday after becoming trapped in machinery at 2 Sisters’ chicken processing site in Scunthorpe.
An MP, local councillor and union representative emerged from talks last week (August 2) “optimistic” about reaching a compromise in the row between 2 Sisters and its workers at Cavaghan & Gray.
Carlisle City Council has called for a “reasonable settlement” between staff at Cavaghan & Gray and its parent company 2 Sisters in the row over proposed changes to working conditions.
Poultry, chilled, frozen and bakery products supplier 2 Sisters Food Group has installed a Microsoft Dynamics navigation-based LINKFresh supply chain business management system from Anglia Business Solutions.
Union leaders have expressed concerns about Ranjit Boparan’s intentions after he completes his £342m takeover of Northern Foods and begins to identify cost savings that could mean office closures or job losses.
Ranjit Boparan today clinched victory in the fight to take over Northern Foods, as he declared his offer ‘unconditional as to acceptances’ and announced that he now controls 79.52% of the food group’s shares.
There were some sizeable deals in the food sector in 2010, from the Kraft-Cadbury takeover at the start of the year to Pepsi’s acquisition of Russian dairy and juice giant Wimm‐Bill‐Dann at the tail end.
Sector skills councils need to work more closely together to provide the cross-industry skills essential to the future of the nation, according to the chairman of Assured Food Standards.