Nestlé to close Castleford factory by end of 2012
Nestlé Confectionery UK is proposing to close its Castleford factory and merge all of its UK 'seasonal' manufacturing into its Halifax site by the end of 2012.
Archives for December 10, 2010
Unite reads riot act to Bakkavör Bourne bosses
Unite has written to management at Bakkavör’s Bourne fresh produce site insisting that better site management could reduce the need for planned redundancies and “savage attacks” on workers’ terms and conditions of employment.
Dairy top performer in autumn availability survey
Dairy was the top performing category in the latest ECR UK on-shelf availability survey, achieving 97.91% availability in an audit at the leading supermarkets conducted during October 14-20 compared with 96.2% in October 2009 and 96.33% in October 2008.
FSA and FDF prepare guidance as 'no artificial flavours' faces legal limbo
A change to EU legislation means that terms such as 'artificial' and 'nature identical' used to describe flavours will no longer exist as of January 20, posing problems for manufacturers making claims on their products, such as 'no artificial flavours'.
KPMG: several parties are looking at ex-PoleStar site
The administrator running the former PoleStar Foods frozen desserts business at Leamington Spa says he has had “several expressions of interest” in the business.