Anyone concerned about the acquisition of Elephant Atta by Associated British Foods (ABF) is invited to contact the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) by July 30.
Sausage skin giant Devro is on track to report £20M pre-tax profit when it posts first half results at the end of July, predicts broker Investec – despite warnings of a crisis in the Scottish meat products industry.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has approved the first health claim for cocoa flavanols, following an application from Swiss-based chocolate maker Barry Callebaut.
Dairy Crest’s sale of St Hubert will “transform its balance sheet”, according to City analysts, after the processor released an interim management statement for the first quarter of its financial year 2013.
Food giant Nestlé has won a place with Morrisons, Coca-Cola Enterprises and 19 other firms on the shortlist for the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF’s) Community Partnership Awards 2012.
Food will need to become healthier if it’s to satisfy the tastes of tomorrow’s consumers, according to a recent study by ingredients manufacturer Puratos.
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has given his support for genetic modification (GM) techniques with a £6.3M ($9.8m) grant for research led by the John Innes Centre in Norwich.
Leatherhead Food Research (LFR) has confirmed salt reduction in food is reaching its limits, while rejecting claims that the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) had misrepresented its views.
Consumer demand is sustaining probiotics sales, despite the blow of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) health claims rejections, say some of industry's main players.
Britvic's £25M recall of its Robinsons Fruit Shoot and Fruit Shoot Hydro bottles happened after a six year old boy from Colchester nearly choked on a ‘spill proof’ cap.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have been accused of a “dinosaur approach” to salt reduction, after suggesting there was little room for further reduction.
Associated British Foods (ABF) reported ‘remarkable’ results for its sugar business but challenging trading for grocery in its interim management statement covering the 40 weeks to June 23.
Leatherhead Food Research (LFR) is changing the way it selects projects under its member research programme to better reflect the business needs of UK food and drink manufacturers.
The calorific value of almonds is 20% less than previously thought, leading to gross overestimations of their energy value, according to new US research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN).
The UK Flavour Association (UKFA) was launched last week to champion members’ interests by co-ordinating regulatory, safety, technical and scientific topics and to raise the sector’s profile.
Hull-based meat supplier Cranswick has been given a glowing report by analysts at Shore Capital, after they visited its two factories in Milton Keynes.
Medium-sized food and drink manufacturing firms are losing out on energy savings because of a lack of expertise, according to a report from energy supplier npower.
As 1,700 jobs are at risk at Vion’s West Lothian plant, the Scottish government’s First Minister Alex Salmond has pledged to “travel anywhere and meet anyone to try to protect Scottish jobs”.
The UK food industry is entering a new era with power shifting from the retailers to the manufacturers, for the first time in 30 years, according to a leading city analyst.
Staff at Carlisle ready meals manufacturer Cavaghan & Gray offered their parent company 2 Sisters a compromise package last week (July 5) in a bid to avoid industrial action.
Top marks in the search to find a college to offer the nation’s first dedicated food and drink engineering degree have gone to Sheffield Hallam University.
Union representatives of workers at Vion’s Broxburn meat plant in Scotland have slammed “the catastrophic news” that its closure threatens more than 1,700 jobs.
Debt-laden Premier Foods has sold its Elephant Atta ethnic flour business to Westmill Foods, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods (ABF), for £34M cash.
More consistent kerbside collection of plastics is necessary to raise the "poor" recycling levels in the UK, according to the md of Britain's largest soft drinks bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)
Leatherhead Food Research (LFR) is joining forces with a systems specialist to launch a new intelligent approach for managing food safety in the food supply chain in September.
'May contain' allergen information displayed on food packs will become less prevalent and more consistently used across the EU over the next couple of years as work by experts in the field comes to fruition.
The search is on to find the UK’s best food and drink manufacturers to match the achievement of Weetabix, which won the 2011 Food Manufacturing Company of the Year award.
The recall of Britvic’s children's drinks Robinsons Fruit Shoot and Fruit Shoot Hydro could cost up to £5M, according to a statement from the soft drinks giant.
The Crantock Bakery has been ordered to pay £29,000 after one of its night shift cleaners became trapped in the unguarded machinery of a moving conveyor belt.
Food choices could be significantly reduced as a result of climate change with novel foods and lab-grown meats becoming the norm, scientists have warned.
