Premier Foods invests £20M at Mr Kipling cake plant
Premier Foods is to invest £20M in building a new production and packing line – capable of making 300M Mr Kipling cake slices a year – at its plant near Barnsley.
Archives for January 13, 2014
Obesity counterattack: sugar reduction campaign in quotes
Prominent nutritionists have provided their exclusive feedback on Action on Sugar’s sugar reduction campaign, designed to combat the rising incidence of obesity in the UK.
Advertising authority shows flexibility over health claims
The Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA’s) policing of EU health claims offers a ray of light to food firms looking to use them in advertising, according to Eversheds senior partner Owen Warnock.
Meat processors battle mandatory labels
Meat processors in the UK are set against the mandatory origin labelling of meat used as an ingredient, according to the director of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) Stephen Rossides.
Gaymer Cider Company faces strike action
The Gaymer Cider Company faces the prospect of a strike at its Shepton Mallett plant in Somerset, after members of the Unite union agreed to a vote over industrial action in a dispute over pay.
Oxford Farming conference – in quotes
Opportunities for growth among agribusinesses, the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), population growth and new technologies were key topics addressed at the Oxford Farming Conference, earlier this week (Tuesday 7 January). Here, we capture in quotes a...
‘Fine firms that fail to reformulate’
Fines should be imposed on food and drink manufacturers that fail to reformulate their products quickly enough to reduce high levels of fat, sugar and salt (HFSS), a childhood obesity campaigner has urged.
Premier Foods Hovis brand linked to US buyer
Reports that Premier Foods could be about to sell its Hovis brand to the Los Angeles-based Gores Group have been welcomed by City analysts Shore Capital.
Food labelling webinar line-up is now complete
The line-up for Food Manufacture’s free, one-hour webinar on the EU’s new food labelling rules – which will take place at 11am on Thursday 20 February – is now complete, with the addition of Campden BRI’s new head of regulatory affairs Steve Spice.
EU's fisheries reform policy starts this month
The EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform package will start to be implemented this month and marks an historic turning point in setting EU fisheries management.
Food production ‘not taken seriously’ in the UK: Irish minister
Food production in the UK has not been taken seriously until recently, Simon Coveney, Irish minister for agriculture, fisheries and the marine, told this website.