Bringing local produce to Tesco is big business
A Yorkshire firm that supplies local food and drink made by small manufacturers to the major supermarkets is expanding to cover the whole of northern England.
Archives for October 3, 2012
Food manufacturers ‘expected’ to meet foodservice demands
The main foodservice companies will expect their manufacturing suppliers to adopt common product information standards to meet growing customer expectations.
Trade Talk with Clare Cheney: Why Tesco's Tim Smith has his work cut out
Reading that Tim Smith had joined Tesco as technical director sent me on a trip down memory lane. I returned to the late '80s, early '90s when I was at the British Retail Consortium and he then Tesco technical director was chairman of our technical...
Food manufacturers could be UK's heroes
Food and drink firms have emerged as the key players in a projected rise of manufacturing output that experts hope will help pull the economy out of the double-dip recession it is experiencing.
Euro food safety watchdog rejects Roundup GM cancer study
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has rejected controversial research linking Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and genetically modified (GM) maize with premature death.