Inside food & drink manufacturing
“A sad day for Scotland,” was the verdict of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), after Vion UK confirmed yesterday (October 16) that it will close its Hall’s of Broxburn meat plant with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
The md of a finance firm who made an unsuccessful bid to buy Hall’s meat plant in West Lothian and save its 1,700 jobs may consider legal action against the facility’s owner Dutch multi-national Vion Group.
McCain Foods is to axe about 50 production jobs at its Hull factory.
Internet sales of food and grocery products will reach £11bn within five years, predicts the grocery think-tank IGD.
The number of premature babies born in the UK could be reduced by as much as 30% if expectant mothers had adequate intakes of vitamin E.
The Halal Food Authority (HFA) has turned down an approach from a “major brewery” to accredit its non-alcoholic beer as halal.
Retail giant Sainsbury is to put the Red Tractor logo – formerly used for meat, poultry, dairy and fresh products – on the scrapheap, attributing the decision to what it termed “consumer confusion”.