A Scottish contract bottler that specialises in small batch runs has secured a full order book for its first three months of trading, just weeks after commencing production.
Coca-Cola Great Britain has revealed a new design for the Coca-Cola range, featuring new packaging for its Coca-Cola original and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar variants.
Snacks and soft drinks manufacturing giant PepsiCo has agreed to acquire do-it-yourself carbonated soft drinks maker SodaStream in a deal worth $3.2bn (£2.5bn).
Meat, dairy and alcohol helped drive UK food and drink exports to £10.6bn for the first half of the year, with the US, China and Hong Kong the main recipients.
Leeds-based brewer North Brewing Co has secured £96,000 worth of orders from China, following a successful trade mission at one of the country’s biggest trade shows.
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is pressing for a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in the UK that avoids any potential confusion for consumers, makes it easy for them to recover their deposits and is managed by a single not-for-profit company.
Britvic has installed new bottling lines at its Leeds and Rugby manufacturing sites with the help of business consultancy and facilities designer Lorien Engineering, as part of a £240m investment programme.
Soft drinks manufacturer Britvic has denied claims that it was using untrained labour to cover staff shortages caused by three days of strikes at its Norwich factory.
Workers at a Budweiser brewery in Lancashire have voted in favour of strike action after a union claimed a colleague was sacked for raising health and safety concerns.
PepsiCo’s start-up business competition, Tulip signing up to a scheme to tackle modern day slavery and a new acrylamide testing lab all feature in this round-up of recent food and drink industry news.
AG Barr has posted growth ahead of the soft drinks industry in its half-year results, as warm weather helped the beverages manufacturer recover from the ‘Beast from the East’ cold snap.
Samuel Smith Brewery and its chairman have been ordered to pay nearly £28,000, after it failed to hand over information on its financial position to The Pensions Regulator (TPR).
A Lancashire brewery faces strike action over claims a senior health and safety rep was dismissed for challenging a management request for health and safety reasons.
Drinks manufacturer Britvic’s sales have fallen flat in its third-quarter results, as shortages in carbon dioxide (CO2) prevented it from capitalising on the UK’s recent heatwave.
Public Health England (PHE) is continuing to focus on calorie and sugar reduction as levels of severe obesity in children aged 10–11 have reached the highest point since records began.
GMB union members at Britvic’s Norwich factory are planning a string of strikes in a bid to bring the company to the negotiation table over the redundancy package offered to them.
Brewing has resumed at Bath Ale’s Hare Brewery after emergency services attended a chemical spill there that forced the evacuation of 25 staff, three of which were treated for breathing difficulties.
Richard Lloyd, Accolade Park’s general manager, European operations and supply chain, explains the philosophy of involving people at all levels in decision-making.
Norfolk-based Crisp Maltings has capitalised on the growth of craft brewing and distilling with the opening of a speciality malt plant as part of a £6.7m spend.
A gas leak at Carlsberg’s Northampton Brewery that left one man dead has been judged accidental but preventable, following an inquest into his death this week.
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.
Political appetite to increase ‘sugar tax’ on soft drinks and extend the levy to other products is growing, a Populus survey seen exclusively by Food Manufacture has revealed.
Beer giant Heineken is to inject £40m into London-based craft beer firm Beavertown to help construct a 450,000-hectolitre (hl) brewery and create 150 jobs, after securing a minority stake in the business.
A Yorkshire brewery is expecting a massive sales boost after winning contracts with Tesco and Morrisons to stock its gluten-free beer Against The Grain.
Nichols finance and supply chain director Andy Johnson (pictured, centre right) explains how staff at Vimto Ross contribute to a brand still fizzing with energy.
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.
A multi-million pound investment by food-to-go business Adelie Foods, a new fleet of tankers at logistics firm Ralph Davies and the Freight Transport Association’s relaunch of its emissions reduction scheme feature in this round-up of recent developments...
Nestlé Waters has acquired a majority stake in Welsh bottled water manufacturer Princes Gate Spring Water for an undisclosed sum, following increased demand for bottled water in the UK.
Soft drinks manufacturer AG Barr has recalled a number of its bottled drinks, because a fault in the packaging process could cause the caps on these drinks to pop off unexpectedly and cause injury.
