Grimsby-based Whitefish processor Kirwin Brothers purchased its first Fortress ‘Phantom’ metal detector to fulfil the production requirements of a new customer.
Food safety authorities have not ruled out further food poisoning cases after an outbreak of infection from the potentially deadly germ Escherichia coli O157 (E.coli O157) has made seven people ill in Scotland.
The skills gap in the food and drink manufacturing sector has not shrunk, despite the latest government statistics showing that UK unemployment overall has fallen.
Noble Foods is considering axing jobs as it relocates shell egg packing operations in Scotland and Lincolnshire to a newly built facility in Oxfordshire, the company has confirmed.
"Pleasing progress" with its newly opened pastry facility and strong pork prospects bode well for Cranswick’s future as it celebrates a successful third financial quarter (Q3), according to one analyst.
Sainsbury ceo Justin King – who is widely credited with reviving retailer’s once flagging fortunes – is to quit the supermarket this July, after 10 years at the helm.
Trades union members at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Solway Foods Corby factory have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over pay and conditions.
Karro Food Group has abandoned the voluntary Dead Weight Average Pig Price (DAPP) sample, dealing another major blow to the scheme following Cranswick’s shock withdrawal last week.
Horsemeat, the waning power of retail giant Tesco and 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisitions featured in the review of 2013, at Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum from its chair Paul Wilkinson.
McDonald’s has stressed its commitment to sustainable beef supply standards and practices a year after the horsemeat affair began, claiming it aims to strengthen industry farming practices.
The latest Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) deal is “a political fudge” that will make Britain’s farmers industry less competitive and disadvantage the whole food industry, warns the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Meat processor Tulip is investing almost half a million pounds in a project designed to create a centre of excellence for gammon and bacon production in Cornwall.
2 Sisters Food Group is facing possible strikes at its Corby plant in protest over pay and conditions, if balloted members of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) agree.
There should be a ban on the import and sale of horsemeat from North America into the EU, Humane Society International (HSI) has claimed on the first anniversary of the horsemeat scandal.
A horsemeat scandal is likely to happen again because food manufacturers are complacent about managing their supply chains and don’t have proper records, according to the boss of supply chain consultancy firm Achilles.
Few lessons have been learnt from the horsemeat crisis, claims new research commissioned by supply chain consultancy Achilles, as an influential committee of MPs urged retailers to buy more local food.
The EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform package will start to be implemented this month and marks an historic turning point in setting EU fisheries management.
Meat processors in the UK are set against the mandatory origin labelling of meat used as an ingredient, according to the director of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) Stephen Rossides.
The horsemeat scandal took supermarkets by surprise because they took a complex supply chain too much “on trust” and were over-reliant on paperwork, rather than sampling and close trade relationships.
Agri-food businesses face “a golden age” Simon Coveney, Irish minister for agriculture, fisheries and the marine, told the Oxford Farming Conference, the day before Irish food board Bord Bia confirmed food and drink exports reached nearly £8.27bn (€10bn)...
Leading retailers Tesco, Morrisons and Marks & Spencer (M&S) have all reported sliding sales over the Christmas period, with one retailer accused of delivering “a quite awful trading update”.
Government advice to pregnant women to restrict consumption of fish to avoid risking the brain development of foetuses by ingesting high levels of dangerous toxins, has been questioned by a leading nutritional scientist.
2 Sisters Food Group has invested in a multi-million pound expansion of its added value chicken processing plant in Cambuslang, Scotland, creating up to 180 jobs in the region.
Environment secretary Owen Paterson is expected to announce the appointment of a full-time agricultural expert in Beijing early in the New Year to assist with growing UK food exports to China.
The possibility of doubling up oxygen barrier in in-mould labels with the same barrier in the pot itself has enabled a Scandinavian seafood firm to move from metal packaging to ambient plastics, with a current shelf-life of two years potentially extendable...
Food and drink manufacturers should check their preparations now for the new food labelling rules – due to be introduced on December 14 2014 – which will “change the goalposts”, according to law firm DWF.
New York-style burger trends look set to influence new product development for the UK 2014 barbecue season, according to Carlos Diaz, food director at Food Innovation Solutions.
Alan Reilly, chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), first thought the contamination of supermarket burgers with horsemeat was impossible but quickly realised the discovery would generate a “tsunami of horse manure”.
Small traditional turkey producers nationwide have raised £2,000 for the charity Help for Heroes, while one producer is treating Chelsea pensioners to a slap-up Christmas dinner.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has welcomed government changes to minced meat labelling, giving shoppers more assurance lean options are low in fat.
Dawn Meats plans to buy a significant minority stake in French beef processor Elivia from its owner, cooperative Terrena, amid aims to boost its global exports and increase efficiency.
Meat processor Dunbia is creating 208 jobs in Ceredigion, Wales, as a new contract with Sainsbury prompts it to invest £7.5M in a former Dairygold plant.
2 Sisters Food Group wrestled to right its balance sheet in the first quarter (Q1) of its current financial year, with weak profit performance casting a shadow on strong sales growth.
The Food Manufacture Group is staging a free one-hour webinar at 11am on Thursday February 20 2014 to arm food and drink manufacturers with all the latest information about the Food Information Regulation (FIR).
Global pharmaceutical firm Sanofi has said it was the victim of fraud, after French police raided its offices in France and arrested 21 people elsewhere, during investigations into claims that horsemeat used to develop medicines was sold illegally for...
