Inside food & drink manufacturing
Twitter went wild with puns about horse meat burgers last week, as the British food industry struggled to come to terms with news that beef burgers sold by Tesco, and other retailers, had become contaminated with horse DNA. Here’s a selection of the best...
2 Sisters Food Group has won a new supply contract that will create 100 jobs at its Nottinghamshire sandwich manufacturing facility, Solway Foods.
Prime minister David Cameron, Sir Paul McCartney and Tim Smith, Tesco’s group technical director and former Food Standards Agency boss, all feature in this collection of quotes about the discovery of horse and pig DNA in beef burgers sold by Tesco,...
A Cornish pasty firm has secured a government investment of £1.5M, which it will use to expand its business and create 50 jobs.
Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning.
The 2012 trend for major cross border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the UK food and drink industry is set to continue in 2013.
A former boss of the Co-operative Group’s farming business, Christine Tacon, has been appointed as the groceries code adjudicator.
Pop icon Sir Paul McCartney has defended supermarkets in the intensifying row over horse meat contamination of beef burgers.