Taint-free flooring claims disputed
01-Feb-2006
The risk of tainting food during the installation of new resin floors is just as great even if the flooring produces little or no odour, despite the...
Headland solves heating and cooling problems
01-Feb-2006
Frozen own-label ready meals producer Headland Foods, part of the Prize Food Group, has found a cost effective solution to its cooling and heating...
Hygienic flooring takes the biscuit
01-Feb-2006
Flowcrete Specialist Flooring has installed an ultra-hygienic floor at Cookieman's bakery in Esher, Surrey, which serves retailers across the UK.As...
Kingspan expands in cold store market
01-Feb-2006
Last year a new company, Kingspan Controlled Environments, was launched to supply insulated panels for the cold storage and food preparation market....
01-Feb-2006 By Michelle Knott
Changes to the British Retail Consortium's Global Standard are forcing manufacturers to review their plant layouts, says Michelle Knott
01-Feb-2006
From running marathons to managing manufacturing support for Walkers' new Skelmersdale plant, which starts up in March, it's all in a day's work for Kath Smith
01-Feb-2006 By Elaine Watson
The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) is driving forward its initiative to tackle inefficiencies in the frozen foodservice supply chain by...
Provenance - benefit or trap?
01-Feb-2006
During the last few weeks of 2005 there was a flurry of activity in the area of registration of protected designations of origin (PDOs) and protected...
01-Feb-2006
I hear that Somerfield is aiming to increase its suppliers' cost to serve. The retailer's proposition allegedly consists of a target to cut stocks,...
01-Feb-2006 By Sarah Britton
The appetite suppressant bandwagon is getting crowded as yet another ingredients manufacturer jumps on board. Belgium-based Orafti claims that...
Dairy products receive a taste boost with new flavour protection system
01-Feb-2006
Flavours supplier Edlong has developed a cheap technique to improve the flavour of dairy products. Capsulong technology involves incorporating food...
01-Feb-2006
As we are in winter months with Christmas well behind us, few outside the food and beverage industry would appreciate that the product development...
01-Feb-2006 By Sarah Britton
Omega-3 is being propelled further into the limelight as Young's Bluecrest Seafood launches its new Young's at Heart range. Naturally high in omega-3...
Lactose free dairy drink
01-Feb-2006
Lactose intolerant sufferers can now indulge in dairy with Arla's Lactofree, the UK's first dairy drink to taste of milk, but contain less than 0.05%...
Frozen food sector to demand relief from price cutting
01-Feb-2006
The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) is holding crisis talks with trading directors at the UK's leading food retailers over concerns that...
01-Feb-2006 By Elaine Watson
Pre-selling of whisky eases pain of planning delays for Shetland's first legal whisky distillery
01-Feb-2006 By Elaine Watson
Hill Station consolidates production in Wales
Higher energy bills force firms to chop jobs
01-Feb-2006
More than 25,000 jobs have been cut across Britain's manufacturing industry over the last three month as employers tried to offset the impact of...
01-Feb-2006
Response to food safety scares is bearing fruit, claims FSA body
Research centre cuts science jobs
01-Feb-2006
Scientists at one of Britain's leading basic long-term food research organisations will find out in the next couple of weeks whether they will lose...
Show promises insights and a glimpse into the future
01-Feb-2006
Cutting edge manufacturing technologies developed in conjunction with Britain's top research institutes will be among the features of the revitalised...
Own-label surges ahead and grabs further market share from branded rival products
01-Feb-2006
Own-label products are powering ahead at the expense of brands in supermarkets, according to the latest market research.Multiple retailers such as...
01-Feb-2006 By Elaine Watson
Lower costs on the continent are proving increasingly attractive to food producers in Britain
Buyers found for all failed Canterbury Foods units
01-Feb-2006
Jobs at all of the former Canterbury Foods plants were secured last month after administrators were able to sell them all as going concerns.Plants on...
01-Feb-2006 By Elaine Watson
Large supplies of the sweetener sucralose could soon challenge Tate & Lyle's SPLENDA product
Dawn Foods boosts sales team
01-Feb-2006
Dawn Foods has bolstered its UK and European sales team with two new additions. Mikael Paul joins as national sales manager for France, and Dave...
New contracts manager at Interoute
30-Jan-2006
Interoute Transport Services has appointed Graham Wood as contracts manager for its specialist bulk foods division. Graham has risen through the...
New bosses at Toms Confectionery aim to create £80m business in five years
23-Jan-2006 By Sarah Britton
The new owners of own-label confectionery firm Toms are on a mission to double the £40m business in the next five years.Entrepreneurs Steven Joseph...
23-Jan-2006 By Rick Pendrous
The food industry is increasingly hoping that data synchronisation and other new technologies will help improve its fortunes, even though...
23-Jan-2006 By Elaine Watson
Tex-mex specialist Discovery Foods has boosted its presence in the Scandinavian market with a £2m contract to supply sauces, tortillas, tortilla...
23-Jan-2006 By Elaine Watson
Culina Logistics has opened its third temperature-controlled distribution centre at Prime Point in Staffordshire. The 15,956 metre squared site,...
23-Jan-2006 By Elaine Watson
Ferndale Foods has made more than 500 staff at its Erith factory redundant.The company proved unable to secure additional business to replace a £40m...
The Firm
13-Jan-2006
Macphie of Glenbervie
FSA's nutrient model is 'fundamentally flawed'
12-Jan-2006
The final nutrient profiling model designed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to improve children's diets by reducing the amount of junk food...
12-Jan-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Backlash feared as producers adopt alternative fat technologies
12-Jan-2006
Finding the right person for the job has never been easy, but new age discrimination laws coming into force this autumn could bring a whole new set of difficulties to the recruitment process, says Rebecca Green
Flexible futures
12-Jan-2006
It's been a tough year for ready meal producers, faced with continually squeezed margins. Rebecca Green finds out how they have responded
Eye spy some functionality
12-Jan-2006
Ingredients claiming to improve eye health will gradually shift from the supplements market to the functional foods arena, the UK boss of ingredients...
Pure vegetation
12-Jan-2006
The heart health category is likely to broaden significantly in the next couple of years as manufacturers start to incorporate cholesterol-lowering...
Wrapped up and re-vamped
12-Jan-2006
Kliklok-Woodman has introduced several new features to further enhance its successful range of CertiWrap wrap-around cartoning machines, the...
CHANGEOVERS
12-Jan-2006
Pioneering moves in finance and ops
12-Jan-2006
Additives are again hitting the headlines, particularly in relation to the sweetener product aspartame.Media attention was certainly focused on...
12-Jan-2006 By Elaine Watson
Functional ingredients might sound like a licence to print money, but suppliers need to do more to stand out in a crowded market, says Elaine Watson
12-Jan-2006 By Sarah Britton
Experts in sensory evaluation are urging manufacturers to reject artificial tasting devices in favour of training up and screening taste...
12-Jan-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Customer and service related issues - such as a temporary loss of sales and a reduction of service levels - are the biggest concerns facing those...
12-Jan-2006
From time to time food manufacturers run out of warehouse space and are faced with the dilemma of either using outside storage or moving to a bigger,...
12-Jan-2006
Multi nationals accused of pedalling nutrigenomics rather than raising dietary standards
Hospital meals sink to a critically poor condition
12-Jan-2006
Competitive tendering is preventing hospitals from serving food that will make patients well, according to evidence presented to a Westminster Diet...
12-Jan-2006 By Sarah Britton
'Someone, somewhere doesn't want this Act'
12-Jan-2006
Until a few years ago no one other than diet obsessives read the back of food packs. Now, we're all food detectives, comparing fat content and...
