Inside food & drink manufacturing
Around 1,200 workers at the 2 Sisters Food Group’s sites in the West Midlands are being balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay and conditions and a culture of alleged bullying.
A family-run vegetable processor has ambitious plans to build a £2M vegetable processing plant that will lead to the creation of 25 jobs in Norfolk.
Worldfoods, frozen and chilled manufacturers, Cofresh has appointed David Page as a non-executive director.
A new £500,000 lab opened last week at Reading Science Centre will help Mondelēz improve food quality including the bubbles in its chocolate product — claims the food manufacturing giant.
Stabilising Tesco’s UK market share and achieving stable UK trading margins should be key goals for the retail giant, according to City analyst Shore Capital.
Fox’s Biscuits has appointed Colin Smith as its new md, replacing Stewart Gilliand, who had been interim md since August.
The government has granted a North Yorkshire egg processor £490,000 towards the construction of a £3M egg processing facility.
Branded food manufacturers are set to suffer further losses in market share as own-label products continue to grow in popularity, according to consumer market researcher, Kantar Worldpanel.
A management buyout is the “most likely” result of Vion’s dramatic exit from the UK’s meat processing market, according to City analysts.
Cranswick has applied for a second licence to supply British pork to the US market.