Inside food & drink manufacturing
London-based Bompass & Parr says its flavour-changing chewing gum that brings Willy Wonka’s famous three-course meal confection closer to reality could be on sale within 12 months.
Staff at Longbenton Foods’ Amble site are feeling ‘real bitterness’ after production stopped yet again due to an ongoing dispute with administrator Begbies Trayner, according to a local town councillor.
Arla Foods’ proposed £150m 1bn litre 'super-dairy' in Aylesbury will create 680 skilled jobs, while the development of commercial space next door could create 500 more, bosses have claimed.
Manufacturers are hoping that a new campaign designed to engage punters about the merits of organic food and drink will translate into hard cash at the tills.