Street food is big business opportunity
Smart food manufacturers and retailers are taking their food to the street, reports Michelle Knott
Archives for December 2, 2013
Food firm's microwaveable investment
Taste Inc microwaveable snacks were the brainchild of Adrian Wilson. He tells Gary Scattergood how they are broadening CP Foods’ customer base
More pulp for less but keep the taste and texture
Tate & Lyle has launched Pulpiz Pulp Extender: a modified starch designed to bring pulp-like texture – even after processing – and in formulations that have a low tomato paste content. The product has been designed to replace at least 25% of tomato paste...
High-temperature film cooks the bird in the bag
Asda has introduced a range of prepared ready to be roasted whole chicken in a bag.
Film: a day in the life of a fish box
A film showing ‘A day in the life of a fish box’ – from port to plate – has proved a surprise hit on YouTube, according to its producers, the British Plastics Federation (BPF).
Mission Foods creates 50 new jobs in Coventry
Mission Foods, the Mexican-owned Coventry food manufacturer, is to create 50 new jobs, as part of factory expansion plans.
Tesco's meat packer makes progress in European markets
Tesco meat packer Hilton Food Group has reported “good progress” in a number of its western European markets for the past quarter (third quarter) to November 5.
Meat firms' customer collaborations
Many meaty demands must be met by today’s processing equipment, reports Alyson Magee
Blow moulders help to cut costs
German packaging machinery specialist Krones has developed a blow moulder that can produce 81,000 polyethylene terephthalate (PET) beverage containers an hour, which are then filled with product and labelled in a single operation. The equipment is...
Bright natural colours without higher dose levels
Sensient Food Colors Europe has launched a range of high-load natural colours for pan-coated sweets that achieve bright, attractive colour shades without needing higher dose levels to match the performance of their synthetic counterparts.
Clean-label glaze cuts costs and extends shelf-life
Clean-label starch specialist Ulrick & Short has extended its range of clean-label non-genetically modified glazes, to include Eziglaze C, which is suitable for freshly baked goods and is declarable as wheat.
State of the art salad factory
Equipment supplier Lingwood Food Services has been involved in the development of a state of the art salad factory for Kanes Foods.
Dairy UK director to stand down after 30 years
Simon Bates has stood down from his role as director of communications at Dairy UK, after 30 years with the group and predecessor organisations.
Tesco signs multi-million pound deal with Hilton
Tesco has signed a multi-million pound deal with specialist meat packing business Hilton Food Group to boost the supply of packed fresh meat products in the UK from its plant near Huntingdon.
Chippindale Foods’ £4.2M investment to increase output
Yorkshire-based egg producer Chippindale Foods has invested £4.2M in a new 55,000m2 production facility in Flaxby, North Yorkshire, to boost output, following growing demand for its products.
Scotland welcomes £100M Edrington distillery investment
Edrington Group’s £100M investment in a new distillery for its iconic brand The Macallan has been hailed as “phenomenal” by Richard Lochhead, the Scottish government’s rural affairs secretary.
Morrisons invests millions in fresh food processing
Morrisons has invested more than £31M over 18 months in its Farmers Boy fresh food processing facilities in Bradford, creating 150 jobs, and plans further investment in jobs and production.
Morrisons plans online launch, as sales to soar
UK online sales of food and groceries are set to more than double in value to reach £14.6bn by 2018, while Morrisons recently unveiled plans to launch online deliveries next month.
More slurry flow, fewer blockages
AB Produce supplies prepared vegetables to the food wholesale, retail, catering and processing sectors. It decided to install a third EZstrip cake pump from Nov Mono when it was having problems with its system of screw augers, steel collection bins,...
Vacuum pumps enable more efficient packaging
When Crewe-based FayreField Foods established its custom-built cheese cutting and packaging plant, it called on vacuum pump manufacturer Busch to supply two R 5 0630 oil-lubricated rotary vane vacuum pumps, which stand alone in a purpose-built enclosed...
Chilling and freezing an urgent issue
Regulation and innovation present some difficult choices for developers of chilling and freezing technology, discovers Paul Gander
Generation F for functionality
Taura Natural Ingredients launched a range of functional fruit concepts at last month’s Food Ingredients Europe show.
KP Snacks and Intersnack in £16M nut consolidation
KP Snacks and parent company Intersnack UK aim to invest £16M in closing their Haverhill factory in Suffolk and consolidating nut processing and packing operations in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Tesco denies squeezing its suppliers after analyst’s criticism
Tesco has denied putting its suppliers under unfair pressure, after retail analyst Cantor Fitzgerald accused the retail giant of practices that risked breaching the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
Mondelez's whacky innovations
In the mysterious UK food science labs of Mondelēz International, something is stirring – aside from the latest centrifuge. Rod Addy investigates
Dry blend lactose boost to infant formula producers
Last month Arla Foods Ingredients launched a lactose for dry blends, designed to enable infant formula manufacturers to increase output without compromising safety or requiring major capital investment.
Price and provenance win the retailer race
Price – though very important – isn’t enough for the multiple retailers any more. In their quest for differentiation, other considerations, such as provenance, have become even more important.
Top names set to speak at Food Vision 2014
Food Vision, the international event for senior executives in the food and drink sector involved with strategic planning, returns to Cannes in France in March 2014.