Inside food & drink manufacturing
A taskforce looking at the future of one of Scotland’s biggest pig processing plants has made encouraging progress, according to the Scottish government’s finance secretary John Swinney.
Europe’s food is “safer than ever”, despite an increase in reports to Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in 2011.
Symington’s has announced the closure of its Victoria Foods factory at Leigh in Lancashire, putting 142 jobs at risk.
The Scottish government is backing an initiative designed to give the country’s dairy farmers greater bargaining power when dealing with their customers.
Analysts have welcomed a strong trading performance by Greencore Group, reported in its interim trading statement for the third quarter to June 29.
Dovecote Park, which is sole beef supplier to Waitrose, has been fined £25,000 after a worker fractured his spine and heel bone in an accident.