City puts £120-180m price tag on Premier Foods' canning sites
Premier Foods could net anything between £120m and £180m+ from the sale of its East Anglian canning sites at Wisbech and Long Sutton, according to City analysts.
Archives for February 7, 2011
Government in talks to form new regional support network
Government and industry efforts are underway to create a regional support strategy for the food industry to replace the one offered through the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), which are being axed.
PoleStar Okehampton calls in the administrators
The administrator of the PoleStar Foods desserts factory in Okehampton say it hopes a buyer can be found that is able to re-employ some of the 232 staff at the site that have just lost their jobs.
Princes refutes Greenpeace claims on endangered tuna
Princes has rebuffed claims by Greenpeace that it sources fish from endangered species, but agreed to amend wording on tins "after listening to recent feedback".
60 second interview: Cornish Crisp Company sales manager Rachael Clayton
FoodManufacture.co.uk waylaid Rachael Clayton to talk about the challenges facing the fledgling Cornish handmade crisp producer, which only uses ‘taters’ grown in the county…