Finsbury targets growth in premium and healthy eating
14-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
Finsbury Food Group plans to double its Thorntons range of cakes and relaunch its Weight Watchers range, catering for consumers’ appetites for...
Northern: 2008 a challenge
14-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Northern Foods chief executive Stefan Barden has admitted that 2008 will be a challenge for manufacturers, with rising commodity costs an ongoing...
Consultation on recycled plastics in contact with food
14-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Food manufacturers and packaging suppliers considering recycled plastic for food packaging have until March 6 to respond to a consultation document...
Test due to slash E.coli 0157 risk
14-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
Manufacturers could dramatically reduce the risk of E.coli 0157 outbreaks by using an extremely fast analysis process - or assay - due to launch...
British Poultry Council defends abattoir safety
14-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
The British Poultry Council (BPC) has rejected claims by Unison union that abattoirs are risking meat safety by allowing untrained staff to carry out...
Innocent clinches £32M finance package
14-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
Innocent Drinks has secured £32M worth of funding from Bank of Scotland Corporate, which the business intends to use to support its expansion plans...
14-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
The food industry must do more to provide consumers with consistent nutritional information about their food, the body overseeing local authority...
08-Jan-2008
Dr Paul Berryman has been appointed chief executive of Leatherhead Food International (LFI). Since 2005, Berryman has operated as LFI's research...
Warburtons staff accept revised pay offer
07-Jan-2008 By Elaine Watson
Strike action has been averted at Warburtons after staff voted to accept the company’s latest pay offer, union bosses confirmed this...
07-Jan-2008
Paul Morrow, md of British Bakels - ingredients suppliers to the baking industry - is to relinquish the post in the second half of 2008 to assume...
Firms losing research and development cash
07-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
Food processors could miss hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of tax credits for research and development (R&D) costs following imminent...
07-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
The Cabinet Office strategy unit document on food and food policy could generate a confused approach to food policy and fails to address regional...
Local supplier food safety scheme hailed as triumph
07-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
A food safety approval scheme aimed at making life easier for smaller local manufacturers has proved a success since its launch in March 2007,...
Coffee trade bodies unite to provide single voice
07-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
The British Coffee Association (BCA) and The Coffee Trade Federation (CTF) have marked the New Year by merging to form one body.With effect from...
Allergen-related product recalls soar
07-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
Cock-ups on allergen labelling are set to increase in frequency in 2008, continuing the trend established last year associated with mislabelled...
Butt Foods faces patent infringement challenge
07-Jan-2008 By Elaine Watson
The makers of the innovative bread bowls featured in last month’s Food Manufacture face a legal challenge from an inventor who claims he came up...
Now you do the maths
02-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
Rod Addy zeros in on how one firm is bringing its employees up to speed in the basics of numeracy and literacy and more in-depth subjects
Pick-and-drop racking is right move for malt warehouse
02-Jan-2008
A Link 51 pallet racking layout using very narrow aisle design and pick-and-drop stations is helping Europe's largest manufacturer of malt extract to...
How to eliminate freezer burn
02-Jan-2008
Two ways to help eliminate the problem of freezer burn of meat, fish, pizzas and other frozen foods have been developed by Versaperm.The company has...
Dairy burns own whey biogas
02-Jan-2008
Rotherham-based Dunphy Combustion has recently completed a state-of-the art, carbon-neutral, energy installation for a major dairy and cheese-making...
Extracts of tamarind and rooibos
02-Jan-2008
Flavour and fragrance ingredient specialist Treatt has launched two new products in its 100% natural Treattarome range.Tamarind Treattarome 9860...
Adjustable nozzles for improved spray-dry powders
02-Jan-2008
The food and dairy division of Niro has developed the technology for incorporating adjustable nozzles in its spray dryers. This allows the nozzles...
New tastes to mask soy
02-Jan-2008
Global flavour manufacturer Mastertaste is now offering a full range of soy masking flavours, from mild taste enhancers to products with a stronger...
02-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
Although no one ingredient can replicate the many characteristics of salt, flavour experts are doing their damnedest. Sarah Britton investigates
Dry saturated-steam cleaning beats all bacteria
02-Jan-2008
ProVap from OspreyDeepclean is the first dry saturated-steam cleaning system to offer proven, microbiologically validated results for the bacterial...
Assay beads speed bacterial identification and up accuracy
02-Jan-2008
A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tool has been developed by Q Chip to speed up bacterial identification with greater accuracy and less variability....
02-Jan-2008 By Lynda Searby
Pressure to speed up results turnaround and product release is driving developments in testing and analysis technology. Lynda Searby reports
02-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
Innovation and technology centre Malmo Park is on a mission to seek out the development chefs of tomorrow. Sarah Britton joined its Chef Idol judging panel to see what was cooking
02-Jan-2008 By Elaine Watson
It's a devastatingly simple, but brilliant idea: edible bread bowls sturdy enough to hold soup or a curry but soft enough to eat. So when did the eureka moment come for Butt Foods?
02-Jan-2008 By Hugh Williams
I find it fascinating to watch a business open up to supply chain thinking. One day it operates in isolation, mistrusting the competition, suppliers...
Premier's Wisbech site used as benchmark
02-Jan-2008
Premier Foods has extended its largest distribution facility in Wisbech, expanding pallet capacity by almost 50%, and refurbished the existing...
02-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
This month sees the creation of a new supply chain business which brings together Culina Logistics and Baylis Logistics under the Culina title,...
Cartonboard aims to play to environmental strengths
02-Jan-2008
The multiple options for diverting paper and board from landfill risk generating confused environmental messages, warns the British Printing...
02-Jan-2008 By Paul Gander
International debate about the future (or lack of it) of antimicrobial food packaging is becoming more polarised, with larger suppliers still...
02-Jan-2008
January is often a time for reflection on the previous year and anticipation of what is to come.With the various 'gifts' of legislative change on the...
02-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
Ingredients firm Hydrosol claims it can cut the raw material cost of feta cheese production in half by removing milk from the equation, but whether...
02-Jan-2008
Why do British consumers opt for the bland and the boring when it comes to pre-packed meat cuts? We really are an unadventurous lot when it comes to...
02-Jan-2008 By Sarah Britton
A good packaging concept can give your new product the best start in life, and as Leicester curry ingredients firm Spice 'n' Tice has proved, there...
Arriba! Arriba! Ándale! Ándale! Tex Mex meals in a matter of minutes
02-Jan-2008
Busy chefs can now create Tex Mex dishes in just a few minutes using Unilever's new Knorr Americas sauces.The reformulated, prepared sauces,...
Sugar division will go from drags to riches
02-Jan-2008
Associated British Foods' (ABF's) sugar division should go from profit drag to growth driver in the next couple of years, according to City...
02-Jan-2008
A problem shared is not always a problem halved
Paying the price of food commodities
02-Jan-2008
Food prices are still pushing upwards, according to the latest government figures, reflecting a global trend as raw material commodity prices are...
02-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
Victory for four-year campaign as 10-day shelf-life is reinstated
02-Jan-2008 By Rick Pendrous
gangmasters are clamping down on unsafe and illegal working practices
02-Jan-2008 By Rod Addy
researchers explore ways to reduce salt levels in food, while retaining product taste
Gimme five for clarity, says the BRC
02-Jan-2008
Version five of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) global standard will provide far greater clarity for manufacturers and auditors so that it is...
02-Jan-2008
New tool addresses employee absenteeism
02-Jan-2008 By Elaine Watson
As supermarkets share hefty fines, manufacturers are warned to share data with care
Bulmers' plans for the very worst crises with its risk management strategy
02-Jan-2008
Drinks producer Bulmers Cider has introduced a risk management strategy to help cope with potential disruptions to its supply chain - however serious...
Food from Britain's funding slashed
02-Jan-2008
Export market development consultancy, Food from Britain's (FFB's) annual grant of £5M is to be cut by 25% in the next three years as part of...
