Inside food & drink manufacturing
Retailers are proving stubbornly resistant to suppliers' attempts to raise prices to reflect surging commodity costs, according to delegates at Food Manufacture’s annual business leaders’ round-table debate.
Worried staff at Longbenton Foods’ Amble factory are again fearing for their jobs, after it emerged that the site administrator is marketing the factory and its contents via an online auction.
Unilever boss Paul Polman used his time on the podium at last night's City Food Lecture in London to unveil a radical new manifesto to improve food security and launch a blistering attack on “well-meaning but ill-conceived” policies on biofuels.