Robinsons Brewery has worked with the Isle of Man’s Ballakelly Farm to create a Trooper Light Brigade Steak & Ale Pie, flavoured with Robinsons’ Trooper Light Brigade ale.
Wrights Food Group will have recruited 100 more workers over the course of this year as demand grows for its savoury and sweet baked goods, ready meals and sandwiches, the company pledged.
Premier Foods has moved to offer support to chief executive officer Gavin Darby following reports that shareholder Oasis Management Company intends to vote against his re-election.
Ginsters aims to inject new life into the savoury pastries market, with the launch of redesigned packaging for recently launched products to attract new customers, including a younger demographic.
Coffee manufacturer Lincoln & York has topped this year’s league table of medium-sized businesses with the fastest-growing international sales, according to the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200.
Ritz, Oreo, Cadbury Biscuits and Belvita are to become greener to produce after Mondelēz International pledged to use 100% sustainable wheat in all of its biscuits in the UK by 2022, as part of its Harmony programme.
Brexit can and should champion British producers, according to leaders of the British food and farming industry, who have called on the Government to maintain frictionless trade with the EU post-Brexit.
Pladis’ Dee Smith reveals how continuous investment, community work and a focus on staff health and wellbeing translate into a positive working culture.
Biscuit International has bought Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF) from CriSeren Foods in a move designed to boost business for both processors in gluten-free and milk-free biscuits.
Bakery ingredients supplier Real Good Food (RGF) has secured at least £8.2m of additional funding from its three major shareholders, after facing severe financial challenges over the past 12 months.
The UK’s appetite for gourmet burgers has prompted Lantmännen Unibake UK to invest £1.1m in a burger bun line at its Milton Keynes plant as part of a wider £4.4m spend to fuel growth.
McVitie’s and Godiva owner Pladis has appointed former Bacardi chief marketing officer Dmitry Ivanov to the newly created role of chief commercial officer.
Baked goods supplier Lantmännen Unibake UK has appointed Richard Stowey as its new operations director, in charge of the company’s strategic development and growth strategy.
Associated British Foods (ABF) continued to battle falling sales of sugar in the 24 weeks to 3 March 2018, as it reported profit growth across all of its other businesses in its interim results.
Northern Irish baker and healthy snack manufacturer Linwoods is to make 90 workers redundant, as part of business restructuring prompted by changes in market demand.
Pie and pasty brand Ginsters has launched two new vegetarian products to its range in response to a growing number of consumers changing to ‘flexitarian’ diets.
Al-Ummah Halal Poultry of Barnsley has agreed to pay £18,000 in costs and damages to Bakers Basco, after using its bakery equipment without permission.
Finsbury Food Group’s UK bakery business resisted soaring butter prices and increases in other costs to grow sales and keep operating profit broadly flat, while group operating profit rose.
An advert for Go Ahead Goodness bars, produced by United Biscuits, has been banned after it was deemed misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Welsh pie and pasty maker Village Bakery has won planning permission to open a new site at an industrial estate in Wrexham, with plans to create new jobs for the area.
High street baker Greggs has posted a £3.6M boost in its operating profit for the year ending 30 December 2017, as it continues to invest in consolidating its manufacturing operations and expanding its logistics capacity.
Up 120 jobs are at risk at a Rugby site distributing Premier Foods cakes, which is managed by XPO Logistics, according to the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU).
The Ultimate Food Company, based in Kendal, which made puddings, including some under the Famous Grouse brand under licence, has gone into administration due to a “number of issues”.
2 Sisters Food Group-owned Fox’s Biscuits is to create 74 full-time jobs at its factory in Batley, West Yorkshire, in response to growing demand for its products.
Foodservice supplier Bidfood has unveiled its 2018 Create Summer range, aimed at the catering sector, with a focus on rising demand for vegan and Middle Eastern products.
The failure to fortify flour with folic acid has been called a “missed opportunity” and a “tragedy” in a report published in Public Health Reviews today (January 31).
Associated British Foods (ABF) has posted a 4% rise in group sales in its first-quarter trading update, as its sugar revenues continue to be hit by lower prices in the EU.
Speciality cake and bread manufacturer Finsbury Food Group has posted a small rise in sales in its pre-close trading statement, despite a fall in sales from its overseas operations.
High street bakery Greggs has delivered its 17th quarter of consecutive like-for-like (LFL) sales growth in its fourth-quarter trading update, as it plans “record investment” in its supply chain in 2018.
Premier Foods has posted continued sales growth in its third-quarter trading statement, boosted by its partnerships with Nissin Foods Group and Mondelēz International.
The Food Manufacture Directory puts you in touch with key food and drink manufacturing industry contacts throughout Britain’s biggest manufacturing sector.
The number of food and drink product recalls in the UK grew by 62% in 2015/16 driven by the impact of new EU labelling legislation, the Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) report has revealed.
