Inside food & drink manufacturing
The food industry is entering a crucial planning period with the 2012 London Olympics now a year away and unless it takes action now availability will suffer, according to logistics experts.
Trade union Unite says it has resolved a pay dispute with Allied Bakeries at the firm’s West Bromwich site and averted strike action.
Gosforth firm Continuous Retorts (CRL) has received a £250,000 investment from a major investment fund, for what the latter describes as potentially “game changing” food processing technology.