Diageo has dramatically upped efficiency and production in parallel with a £105m investment programme at its Cameronbridge distillery, which makes leading Scotch whisky and white spirit brands.
Beverage manufacturer Aimia Foods has invested in a new pouch packing line to broaden the range of services it can offer foodservice, vending, leisure catering and retail consumers.
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.
Unilever says it is spending around £2.6m to upgrade production and expand production at its historic Colman’s mustard factory in Norwich, but admits that it could shed up to 20 jobs as a result.
The English fishing industry has secured a £1.9m EU funding award that will be used to improve fish processing factories in Devon and North Shields, in addition to other schemes.
A considerable number of workers at Hovis's bakery in Avonmouth could face redundancy as a result of plans to invest £4-5m in automating site processes, the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has confirmed.
Angry staff at PoleStar Foods’ desserts factory in Okehampton are looking for answers from bosses as to why they are now out of a job just weeks after being told the site’s future had been secured “for many years to come”.
NFT Distribution forecasts strong growth in 2011, with plans to develop reworking and repacking services and deep chill business in meat and meat products, plus invest in further warehouse capacity.
Relentless pricing pressure, late payment and overzealous supermarket buyers notwithstanding, confidence levels amongst UK food manufacturers appear to be improving, according to Food Manufacture’s annual 'state of the nation' survey.
Food Manufacture’s annual state of the nation reader survey is run every May and is intended to serve as a barometer of confidence levels in the industry.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is rolling out a labour planning system supplied by internet application developer Eleventeenth that has achieved "a significant cost saving" at its Wakefield plant in Yorkshire.
Northern Foods has disclosed plans to invest £26.5M in automation at its Fox’s Biscuits facilities as part of a vision to concentrate production at two ‘world class’ plants rather than its current three.
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