Inside food & drink manufacturing
First Milk has bought Fife-based Kingdom Cheese and Kingdom Dairies to extend its product range into new cheese and cream products, while the firm has updated FoodManufacture.co.uk on the progress of its plans to build a new Scottish creamery.
Heinz has been fined £20,000 after a worker lost a finger whilst operating industrial machinery at the company’s UK-based baked bean factory.
The administrator of Leicestershire cheese producer Quenby Hall Dairy says it expects to wrap up a deal for the firm shortly.
The Findus Group says it is working hard to ensure a ''consistent and reliable'' supply of Crispy Pancakes following the decline of major contract supplier Longbenton Foods, as the latter's administrator fights to achieve a sale.