All the leading supermarkets, 13 caterers (including McDonald’s), 14 processors/suppliers and eight branded food manufacturers have now signed up to a voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) on pork and pork products.
The UK market for functional foods on a bone health platform grew 6.8% in the year to March 2010, but at just £38M, it still represents a niche part of the £556m functional foods market, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel.
Production of more than a million teacakes could be in jeopardy if a strike at leading Scottish biscuit and confectionery maker, Tunnock’s, goes ahead.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is aiming to draw up a new voluntary code of practice on country of origin labelling (COOL) by the end of November.
Food and drink trade figures for the first half of 2010 show that UK exports have risen by 8.1% compared to the same period of 2009, with non-EU markets fuelling growth.
Real Good Food Company (RGFC) has posted a £1.3m pre-tax loss in the first half, but says it has reached a turning point in its sugar business “after several difficult years”.
With a demographic time bomb ticking, the demand for foods, drinks and supplements to help people live healthier, more active lives as they get older has never been greater.
The firms behind a high-profile ‘article 14’ health claim application about soy protein are hoping the European Commission will “adopt a pragmatic approach” as it reviews a controversial negative opinion on their application from the European Food Safety...
Willesden-based Jamaican pattie manufacturer Port Royal has developed a new range of premium chilled ready meals targeting shoppers looking for more authentic Caribbean cuisine.
No one is expecting food manufacturers to share commercially sensitive information about nanotechnology projects, but adopting a policy of radio silence on the subject will only reinforce the perception that they have something to hide, according to experts...
Agreeing on a legal definition of nanomaterials that satisfies food manufacturers, regulators, enforcement bodies and consumers will be hugely challenging, according to experts gathered at a nanotechnology workshop in Leatherhead last week.
A Scottish MEP who represented the EU Parliament at a conference in The Faroe Islands to resolve the ongoing ‘Mackerel war’ has hailed talks as "constructive", ahead of further meetings between key stakeholders in the dispute.
Asda’s margin-crushing promotional activity on liquid milk has prompted a wave of price-cutting that has contributed to “a material destruction of category profitability”, according to one City analyst.
A multi-million-pound ultra high energy mixer that its backers hoped would create nano-emulsions with exciting new properties has so far failed to live up to expectations.
A groundbreaking study exploring the potential of bioactive compounds in broccoli and garlic to slow or prevent the breakdown of cartilage is one of nine projects to secure a share of £4m, in the final funding round of the Diet and Health Research Industry...
Sales of organic milk and yogurt are up but cheese is still suffering, as the industry strives to win “hearts and minds”after the recession, says farmers' co-operative OMSCo.
Food chain collaboration champion English Farming and Food Partnerships (EFFP) has embarked on a restructuring exercise to move it onto a clear commercial footing as government funding dries up.
Leading UK turkey producer Cranberry Foods has denied claims by the union Unite that it breached an industry charter safeguarding workers’ unionisation rights.
Next week’s strike at Vion’s Llangefni chicken processing plant would be illegal if changes to labour laws proposed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) were to make it onto the statute books.
Life will only get tougher for Unilever in the second half of 2010, but things could improve in 2011 as its Genesis innovation programme starts to bear fruit, cost inflation cycles out and rival Procter & Gamble (P&G) starts to run out of steam,...
Premier Foods has been ordered to pay out almost ₤21,000 and slammed by UK safety authorities after an industrial accident in which a 65-kg metal pillar crushed the skull of one of its workers.
Profits from Associated British Foods’ (ABF’s) sugar business will be “substantially ahead” of last year driven by further growth in the EU and a strong improvement in China, the firm has revealed.
Twinings has revealed that UK workers facing redundancy who help establish operations at a new Polish factory will have all their expenses paid, receive extra salary and sightseeing trips.
The Genius gluten-free fresh bakery brand is now worth more than £10m at retail level, just 15 months after launch, making it one of the most successful launches in the free-from market over the last decade.
Double-digit growth in filled cones and chocolate snacks helped the UK ice cream market grow by 8.1% to £693.7m in the year to August 8, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel.
Higher commercial sales coupled with new product development could help Thorntons offset its high street sales slump, according to Investec analyst David Jeary.
Industrial action will go ahead at Coca-Cola’s Edmonton facility from next Wednesday, September 15, after discussions between trade union Unite and the firm broke down.
The UK appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is gradually improving, with an increasing trend towards the sale of non-core businesses by plcs, says legal firm Rollits.
Chase Distillery founder and ceo William Chase is set to pioneer the use of waste from his Hertfordshire vodka distillery to make high-grade vehicle fuel.
The Scottish Pelagic Fisherman’s Association (SPFA) says it pulled out of a summit to discuss the current ‘mackerel wars’ because it feared legitimising overfishing by Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Leading UK food and drink manufacturers saved more than two million cubic metres of water throughout 2009 compared to 2007, according to a new report from a government-funded body.
Manufacturers and retailers have called for a “shared vision and strategy” with government to ensure the UK’s food and drink industry is sustainable and doesn’t descend into catastrophe.
Strong turnover last year means that buying group for independent retailers Nisa-Today’s is expanding into a 195,000 sq ft distribution centre in Livingston, Scotland.
CenFRA (the Centre for Food Robotics and Automation) is aiming to achieve financial self-sufficiency “as early as autumn next year”, after securing additional cash from regional development agency (RDA) Yorkshire Forward designed to tide it over until...
New guidelines will ensure that UK dairy processing companies benefit from a common approach to calculating carbon footprints across the whole supply chain.
A wave of strikes at Coca-Cola’s Edmonton plant that was scheduled to begin today has been suspended after members of the Unite union and company bosses agreed to return to the negotiating table.
The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) has slammed a decision by Twinings to encourage staff at its North Shields site to train the Polish workers who will make them redundant.
Nature’s Way Foods (NWF) is investing millions of pounds in upgrading kit at three plants in Selsey and Runcton and building a fourth factory at a third site.
