Inside food & drink manufacturing
Asda has identified more ways to increase the retained shelf-life of its chilled food offer by looking again at purchase order cut off times for suppliers and allocation cut off times for its depots.
Members of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) at the Fox’s Biscuits factories at Kirkham and Batley have accepted a revised pay offer from Northern Foods, ending the threat of industrial action.
Asda is aiming to complete the roll-out of a comprehensive programme to introduce new case sizes across its supply chain by the end of 2011.
Keith Taylor MEP has vowed to fight to make Twinings repay a €12m EU grant for a new Polish factory that will see 393 UK jobs transferred abroad.