The UK’s second biggest cake manufacturer, McCambridge Group is at an advanced stage of selling its own-label division, FoodManufacture.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
The Food Standards Agency has re-assured consumers about the safety of acrylamide in chips after the Daily Express published a story linking it to cancer.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is considering Nakano’s offer to sell its production plant in Staffordshire, to allay competition concerns following its acquisition of Premier Foods’ vinegar and pickles businesses.
Unite union members at chocolate maker Barry Callebaut’s Banbury site in Oxfordshire have cancelled plans for strikes later this week after agreeing a pay deal with the firm.
The UK meat industry is missing out on a £1bn export opportunity in the Middle East because it has failed to adopt Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidelines on halal, an expert has warned.
Irn Bru-maker AG Barr revealed a 4.9% increase in turnover to £130M for the six months to July 28, as city analysts underlined the strong case for a merger with Britvic.
Mars Chocolate’s new £6M research and development (R&D) facility will attract “world class expertise”, says business and enterprise minister Michael Fallon.
After winning a £50,000 investment on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den, entrepreneurial sisters Lisa and Helen Tse have ambitions to make their Chinese sauces as big as Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae brand.
Food and drink manufacturers are optimistic about sales for the remainder of the year, according to the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF’s) latest Food and Drink Business Confidence survey.
Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has rejected claims by Unite the union of making “a paltry pay offer”, after more than 100 members of the union staged two one-day strikes on September 22 and 24 at the firm’s Banbury site in Oxfordshire.
Europe’s largest own-label ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream was fined £10,000 yesterday (September 24), after a 20-year worker was injured by a conveyor belt.
By Gary Scattergood at the Liberal Democrat conference
New Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) minister David Heath said he wished there was a hit TV show called CSI Sainsbury to tempt scientists away from forensics and into the food industry. ’−
After a “challenging” first half, Dairy Crest will need a strong second half performance to make up the balance sheet, according to city analysts at Shore Capital.
Business groups including the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) have given a guarded welcome to government plans to plough £1bn into a state-backed business bank to increase lending to small firms.
Soaring sales of English wine, the growing popularity of low-alcohol wine and an acceptance of boxed wine are the three key conclusions of new research on the UK wine market from Mintel.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has insisted that food manufacturers are working to cut salt levels in meat, after a pressure group claimed over-salty bacon was threatening the nation’s health.
A new controversial study linking Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and genetically modified (GM) maize with premature death has left scientists across the world rowing over its validity and regulatory authorities saying they need more time to study its implications.
Britain’s largest food manufacturer has signed a £15M deal with the Ministry of Justice to supply all publicly-run prisons in England and Wales with Hovis and Mother's Pride bread.
Fast food outlet KFC is mislabelling chicken as ‘halal’ because its machine slaughter contravenes Foods Standards Authority (FSA) guidelines, an angry English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX) adviser has told FoodManufacture.co.uk.
It was "short-sighted" for food manufacturers to cut research and development (R&D), even during an economic downturn, claims a senior manager at PepsiCo.
Waitrose got more than it bargained for when it launched a social media campaign inviting consumers to reply to its tweet: “I shop at Waitrose because …” The response varied from the cutting to the down-right hilarious.
KFC sales of halal chicken, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, may not meet the requirements of Islamic law, according to a leading group of Muslim scholars in the UK, speaking to Food Manufacture on 19 September 2012.
Allinson brand-owner ABF Grain Products has welcomed a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rejecting accusations of misleading marketing made by the Real Bread Campaign (RBC).
Fresh hope of safeguarding 1,700 jobs at Vion’s Hall’s Broxburn meat plant emerged yesterday (September 18), after Scottish finance secretary John Swinney revealed that three parties were interested in buying the business.
The Edinburgh-based gluten-free food specialist Genius Foods has struck a deal with French retail chain Carrefour to sell gluten-free croissant, pain au chocolat and other products in Spain.
Food manufacturers have been told to find “innovative ways of reducing water use”, after a survey by the Foodservice Consultants Society International UK and Ireland (FCSI) revealed 84% of members saw water usage as having the biggest impact on the sector...
A new way of ‘naturally’ extending the shelf-life of products without the need for supplementary preservatives or additives is being offered to UK food manufacturers by savoury snacks manufacturer Deli 24.
The Irish government has unveiled ambitious plans to intensify sustainable food production for export. The aim is to boost its economy and help remedy food shortages around the world.
Small food and drink firms make a crucial contribution to the £1,000bn driven through local economies by small businesses each year, but it could be far greater if banks loosened their purse strings.
British consumers would accept the use of nanotechnology in the production of food and drink if the benefits were more clearly explained by people they trust, new research has revealed.
