Kraft weighs-up Cadbury Somerdale site sale bids
Kraft is considering bids from developers interested in buying the iconic former Cadbury factory in Keynsham, while the site's equipment is being sold via an online auction.
Archives for July 5, 2011
Coca-Cola Enterprises opens education centre
Simon Baldry, md for Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) in Britain committed his company to a policy of helping to develop “healthy, sustainable local communities” around its UK factories, as he officially opened the company’s fourth education centre at Sidcup...
Biffa bigs up new waste disposal
As rising landfill taxes are making alternative disposal routes more attractive, waste disposal firm Biffa has responded by building "the largest anaerobic digestion plant in the UK", with more planned, said Ian Wakelin, chief executive of Biffa.
There's more to taste than flavour
Can you make it taste better?" is a question I've been asked time and time again, usually by people who don't actually know what they want and who don't understand the word 'taste' at all – let alone the journey you need to take to make your food taste...
Having no Groceries Codes Adjudicator is like having 'a rulebook with no referee'
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has countered retail claims that a Groceries Codes Adjudicator would add unnecessary cost and bureaucracy to policing the supply chain.
Synergy to launch cheaper alternative to coconut milk
The rising price of coconut milk prompted savoury ingredients supplier Synergy to work with ready meal manufacturers to develop a cheaper alternative. As a result, the firm is set to launch a new product this month: a coconut milk flavoured powder called...
Potatoes may have had their chips
I was just about to put pen to paper for this month's column, when the news broke about the Harvard research paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (June 23, 2011) on the cause of long-term weight gain in non-obese individuals.
Transporters switch to Mercedes
Chilled and frozen food transporter, BW Refrigerated Couriers has started to switch its panel van fleet to Mercedes Sprinter vans, each with 100% Somers ATP-certified refrigerated panel van conversions.