Inside food & drink manufacturing
Associated British Foods (ABF) faces fines for anti-competitive practices if a competition authority probe just launched finds it guilty in the latest round of a longstanding feud with Napier Brown.
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has appointed former Premier Foods boss Michael Clarke as its new md and ceo.
A singing lasagne has proved a hit with Waitrose customers as sales of Charlie Bigham’s ready meals have more than tripled as a result of the novelty dish, according to the retailer.
FOOD LABELLING WEBINAR
Complying with the EU’s new food labelling rules – set out in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (FIR) – will be a “truly enormous” job that will carry “a colossal cost”, warns Stephen Spice, Campden BRI’s new head of regulatory affairs.
A Lancashire bakery has been ordered to pay £6,000, after a pasty-making machine chopped off two finger tips of one of its workers.