Devonshire Desserts - the newly created company that has acquired the plant, machinery and freehold of the former PoleStar desserts factory at Okehampton - is part of the Country Style Foods group led by md Joe Wood, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learnt.
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.
With sales at Loseley Dairy Ice Cream up a cool 36% in 2010, the Cwmbran-based ice cream maker has certainly had a better year than a lot of other firms competing for space in the nation's freezer cabinets, but its best is yet to come, new md Neil...
More than 40 food and drink manufacturers in the US and Canada are experimenting with a new breed of microscopic salt crystals from UK-based firm Eminate enabling firms to slash sodium and retain their clean-labels.
Industry concerns are growing about a possible amendment to the EU Food Information Regulation (FIR) that will require all foods frozen, then defrosted before sale, to be labelled ‘defrosted’.
Nestlé’s performance in the UK was ‘particularly positive’ in 2010, trumping ‘resilient’ performances in Germany, Iberia, Italy and Switzerland, bosses have revealed.
United Biscuits has appointed UK md Benoit Testard as its new group chief executive as current boss executive chairman David Fish moves into a non-executive role.
Greencore is still not ruling itself out of the bidding for Northern Foods, but City analysts believe it may be better off walking away now than leveraging itself up to the hilt in order to trump Ranjit Boparan's 73p/share cash offer.
Britvic has taken on around 60 new staff at its soft drinks canning factory in Rugby in preparation for a switch to round-the-clock production to meeting growing demand.
Premier Foods is in 'constructive dialogue' with Marks & Spencer over pricing and ranging at its own-label businesses RF Brookes and Avana Bakeries, which saw profits collapse from £15m to zero in 2010.
Chicken tycoon Ranjit Boparan is pumping £30m into new coated products factory for 2 Sisters in Thetford in a bid to increase its presence in the prepared food sector.
The UK firm behind technology that gives salt a far greater kick by making it re-crystallise into tiny hollow balls a fraction of the size of standard salt - has started to make waves across the Pond.
A food processor has been ordered to pay ₤22,000 (€26,000) and condemned by safety authorities for failings that led to one worker losing his hand and another parts of several fingers in separate accidents.
The recession has increased the risk of potentially unsafe counterfeit and so-called ‘diverted’ food products, according to a firm specialising in packaging technology that helps prevent the problem.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has challenged the government to prioritise the food and drink sector, in the aftermath of a White Paper outlining new trade measures to aid UK exporters that appear to exclude the industry.
Despite robust overall growth, Kraft is still suffering from costs associated with its £11.5bn Cadbury purchase, according to the US giant's full-year accounts.
An anti-listeria ingredient that is added to meat products during the packaging process could mark a step-change in the fight against the foodborne pathogen, said Griffith Laboratories.
With Greencore’s proposed engagement to Northern Foods now looking decidedly rocky, it might make sense for bosses to turn their attention to Premier Foods’ own-label bakery and prepared foods businesses, Avana Bakeries and RF Brookes, according to City...
DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) has ruled out financial support for the organic industry, despite producers saying they stand alone and a Soil Association (SA) report damning Whitehall’s “diffident, if not lazy” approach.
A deal that will see Uniq tackle its gaping pension fund deficit by handing over more than 90% of its shares to its pension scheme has finally been cleared after months of negotiations.
Details on pledges manufacturers will be encouraged to make about their commitment to reformulating products under the government's new 'Responsibility Deal' will be unveiled at the end of this month.
Premier Foods has sold its canned grocery operations to Princes for £182m, including such iconic brands as Crosse & Blackwell, Fray Bentos and Smedley’s.
Employers hoping to avoid a hefty bill when new agency workers legislation comes into force by repeatedly terminating agency worker contracts at 11 weeks, 'stopping the clock' for six weeks and then rehiring them, could still fall foul of the...
Downward pressure on the economy is likely to keep a lid on UK retail food price inflation, which will peak in the first few months of this year at around 6-7%, and then decline slowly, according to European Food and Farming Partnerships (EFFP).
Premier Foods could net anything between £120m and £180m+ from the sale of its East Anglian canning sites at Wisbech and Long Sutton, according to City analysts.
The administrator of the PoleStar Foods desserts factory in Okehampton say it hopes a buyer can be found that is able to re-employ some of the 232 staff at the site that have just lost their jobs.
FoodManufacture.co.uk waylaid Rachael Clayton to talk about the challenges facing the fledgling Cornish handmade crisp producer, which only uses ‘taters’ grown in the county…
Government and industry efforts are underway to create a regional support strategy for the food industry to replace the one offered through the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), which are being axed.
Princes has rebuffed claims by Greenpeace that it sources fish from endangered species, but agreed to amend wording on tins "after listening to recent feedback".
Six months of cranberry juice consumption was associated with lower recurrence of urinary tract infections (UTIs), but so was placebo consumption, according to new data.
The European Food Safety Authority’s health claims panel will complete its exhaustive article 13.1 generic health claims task by publishing three batches this year, with the first due at the beginning of April.
Sugar Puffs and Poppets maker Big Bear Group has been snapped up by Raisio in a £80m deal less than a year after it acquired snacks and confectionery maker Glisten.
The use of commercial enzymes to reduce levels of acrylamide is effective when applied to chilled, but not par-fried, French fries, suggests a new study from Belgium.
Longbenton Foods has denied claims made by some staff at its Benton Lane frozen ready meals factory in Longbenton, Newcastle Upon Tyne, that they have not yet been paid in full for their services in January.
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”.
Personalized nutrition – seen by many as the future of nutrition – may take a step closer as scientists apply the metabolomics approach to identify individual metabolic ‘types’.
Risk aversion and a failure to learn the marketing lessons from the US have frustrated the market for energy shots in Europe, according to a new report.
Unilever has beat analysts' expectations with a 5.1% rise in underlying sales in the fourth quarter, but said operating margins were dented by commodity price hikes.
The media described the recent incident concerning dioxin in pork and egg products from animals fed with dioxin-contaminated feed as ‘a scandal’. But this is compounded by the needless and wasteful slaughter of expensively reared animals and the destruction...
