Inside food & drink manufacturing
Sausage manufacturers have hit back after a report accused them of producing products with dangerously high salt levels, and say that the results are misleading, while 2012 reduction targets risk going too far.
Malmesbury Syrups, a supplier of flavoured coffee syrups, is witnessing impressive growth thanks to its online sales through Amazon.
Dairy Crest wishes to either develop or acquire a branded yogurt division to capitalise upon a fast-growing market, despite selling off its UK yogurt business in early 2009.
The Global Tea and Coffee Exchange is due to roll-out two lines into Sainsbury’s nationwide as the £500,000 turnover business takes-off.
Neil Burchell has been appointed md of specialty cheese producer Futura Foods, and says he intends to drive the firm’s branded focus, where products are now mainly own-label.
Police are investigating the cause of a food factory fire in the Scottish Borders that left a 37-year-old man dead.