Heinz has "already taken steps" to ensure customers' shelves will remain stocked with Heinz beans in the event of strikes at its Kitt Green factory, bosses have revealed.
Union bosses representing workers at Twinings' North Shields site are furious at the firm’s decision to send around 80 sales and marketing staff to Portugal for a training event.
70% of Unilever’s sales could be generated in developing and emerging (D&E) markets by the end of the decade, according to City analysts covering a ‘hugely impressive’ investor seminar in Singapore run by the consumer products giant.
Food manufacturers working with Amazon on its UK online grocery store are becoming increasingly frustrated by its progress just over four months after the launch, with patience wearing thin in some quarters.
Unilever reduced its range by more than 1,200 stock keeping units (SKUs) last year as part of a bid to cut its long tail, prioritise top sellers and reduce waste, supply chain bosses have revealed.
Essenta Foods, the new business to be created from the merger of Northern Foods and Greencore, will be divided into four divisions with two bosses selected from each company.
While the proposed merger of Northern Foods and Greencore will inevitably mean job losses at both companies, it is unlikely to result in scores of factory closures, City analysts have predicted.
More than three-quarters of recruitment suppliers that signed up to Premier Foods’ preferred supplier scheme last year have “already confirmed their interest in taking part again in 2011”, the company has claimed.
Premier Foods is in talks with Princes over the sale of its canning sites at Wisbech and Long Sutton in a bid to reduce its debt pile, FoodManufacture.co.uk understands.
Family-owned Silvery Tweed Cereals has pumped more than £1m into extending and upgrading production and storage facilities at its site in Berwick-on–Tweed.
A multi-million pound programme to turn an old warehouse next to the Ryvita factory in Poole into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will be completed by next spring.
The controversial restructuring of Associated British Foods’ (ABF’s) Twinings tea division is progressing to plan with capacity expansion in China “well under way” and construction of a new €45m (£37.7m) factory in Poland planned to commission early next...
A strike ballot called by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) at Fox’s Biscuits’ factories at Kirkham and Batley has been called off due to ‘technical’ glitches.
"Would you eat this?" asks Stiletto Foods md Jeremy Woods, thrusting forth a nondescript looking bar with the words ‘diabetic chocolate’ emblazoned over the front.
Northern Foods has defended its pay offer to staff at Fox's Biscuits as "very competitive in the current climate" following news that the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) is balloting members at the Kirkham and Batley biscuit...
I left school with O- and A-levels and got a job in a microbiology lab at a bakery, which funded a Higher National Certificate in food technology at South Bank Polytechnic.
Twinings workers are “genuinely dismayed” by news that the firm has signed a contract to recieve €12m of EU funding for a new Polish site that will see UK jobs slashed.
More than two million jars of Gordon Ramsay’s Seriously Good premium Italian cooking sauces have been sold a year after launch, equating to sales of around £3.7m.
Who feels like some Chicken Tonight? Not many of us, apparently, which explains why brand owner Unilever now wants to get shot of it, along with fellow cooking sauce Ragu, sales of which are believed to be equally uninspiring.
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”.
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.
Tayto’s Red Mill Snack Foods factory at Wednesbury is scheduled to close next month as all remaining production is transferred to its factory at Corby in Northamptonshire.
UK imports of Californian raisins increased by 26% during the 2009/10 season, according to the trade organisation representing the largest Californian growers.
UK media watchdog Ofcom has rejected complaints from cereal food giants Nestlé and Kellogg’s that they were treated unfairly by the Channel 4 programme What’s in Your Breakfast?
Twinings has confirmed that a “small number” of staff at its factory in North Shields have accessed confidential payroll details relating to 263 staff without authorisation.
The world’s first 100 percent biodegradable chip packet attracted a lot of noise last week, but not the buzz that SunChips’ maker FritoLay had been hoping for.
Food manufacturers working with Amazon on its new UK grocery business remain frustrated and disappointed by its progress six weeks after launch, although most still say they would not bet against the online retailer in the long-term.
Tiptree jam maker Wilkin & Sons is on the lookout for further acquisitions after sealing a deal to buy Essex-based luxury puddings manufacturer Coles Traditional Foods.
‘Household names’ in food and drink manufacturing are conducting trials with fruit-based sweetener Sweet Freedom following its successful launch in the retail market.
Greencore has notched up a “very positive” set of summer trading figures, posting a 7% increase in sales to €281.2m in its convenience foods division in the four months to July 23, driven by strong growth in food-to-go and prepared meals.
The firm behind a new breed of microscopic salt crystals that can help manufacturers slash sodium and retain their clean label status is conducting its first trials on cheese.
Premium muesli Nature’s Pleasure was pulled from supermarket shelves after just 12 months because of "economic pressures", according to Kellogg's UK md Greg Peterson.
The Trades Union Congress has written to business secretary Vince Cable asking him to investigate whether Twinings received EU funds to “relocate” production from the UK to a new Polish factory, given that UK jobs could be lost as a result.
Premier Foods remains ‘open-minded’ about selling off assets to pay off debts, bosses have revealed as the firm released interim results broadly in line with expectations, but warned of rising cost inflation in the second half.
United Biscuits has been fined £10,000 plus costs by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker had two fingers sliced off by a mixing machine.
Premier Foods has lost market share in three out of four of its key trading categories in the second-quarter, according to Nielsen data supplied to Investec Securities.
Significant “teething problems” notwithstanding, Amazon.co.uk’s online grocery store has a good chance of success in the long-term, according to food manufacturers taking part in the launch.
