Inside food & drink manufacturing
Food and drink manufacturers should boost the number, quality and range of work experience placements for students, said the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST), after surveying 80 employers, including Premier Foods, Coca-Cola and Unilever.
The boss of Pukka Pies is offering to help fellow food manufacturers understand how they can overcome the hurdles of donating surplus stock to foodbanks.
Industry support body Seafish has appointed two new directors to help deliver and implement its corporate plan.
Action is underway to safeguard 500 jobs at a bottle making plant in Scotland after drinks giant Diageo announced plans to shift bottle supply for brands including Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff to other locations.
2 Sisters Food Group held 30-40% of UK retailers’ chicken sales before buying Vion’s meat processing units, gaining at least 10% more afterwards, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has revealed.
Strike action has been averted at Molson Coors' Burton-on-Trent brewery in an eleventh hour pay deal, with union Unite claiming victory for spearheading the campaign.
The independent Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has called on suppliers to share information with her on potentially unfair practices by their big retailer customers so that she can identify priorities for investigation.
EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has announced plans for a largely brandless UK discount food chain, dubbed easyFoodstore, to occupy a niche one step down from Aldi and Lidl.