Fast food giant seeks to beef up farming practices
McDonald’s has stressed its commitment to sustainable beef supply standards and practices a year after the horsemeat affair began, claiming it aims to strengthen industry farming practices.
Archives for January 22, 2014
Morrisons quiet on ‘insider trading arrest’
Morrisons is refusing to confirm or deny reports that its group treasurer Paul Coyle has been arrested on suspicion of insider dealing, in advance of the supermarket’s partnership with online grocer Ocado.
Business Leaders’ Forum
Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum tackles key topics
Horsemeat, the waning power of retail giant Tesco and 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisitions featured in the review of 2013, at Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum from its chair Paul Wilkinson.
Business Leaders' Forum
Minimum wage rise questioned by business leaders
A minimum wage increase could hit small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), delegates at Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum were told.
BUSINESS LEADERS’ FORUM
Demonising products ‘dangerous’, says IFST head
Demonising food products is dangerous and focusing on the importance of positive nutrients is vital, according to Jon Poole, ceo of the Institute of Food Science & Technology.
BUSINESS LEADERS' FORUM
Exports need government support – FDF boss
The government could support food exports more, Melanie Leech, director general of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), claimed, shortly before Lord Livingstone pledged more trade backing.
Trades union ‘saddened’ by 140 job cuts at Kellogg
Trades union Usdaw said it was “saddened” to hear of the 140 job cuts planned at breakfast cereal giant Kellogg’s Wrexham factory, part of a global business restructure.
Bright Blue Foods cuts 57 jobs at cake plant
Bright Blue Foods aims to cut 57 jobs as it closes its Manchester bakery, which makes slab, loaf and Christmas cake, and shift production to other sites to improve efficiency.
Business Leaders' Forum
Sugar media-hype could confuse consumers: FDF director general
Campaigns against sugar lack the science to back the extreme messages they use to promote their agenda and could confuse consumers, Food and Drink Federation (FDF) director general Melanie Leech has said.
Patchy implementation hampers continuous improvement
The cultivation of a lean manufacturing culture of continuous improvement is often hampered by firms “cherry picking” what they implement, according to Jeff Williams of business consultancy SA Partners.
FDF slams Channel 4 sugar programme ‘as misleading’
Food manufacturers’ organisation the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has slammed a Channel 4 programme on sugar – screened earlier this week (January 20) as – “highly misleading”.
Tulip and Cranswick snap up pig farming assets
Meat processing firms Tulip and Cranswick have snatched some of pig farming business Dent Ltd’s assets from the jaws of administration.