Inside food & drink manufacturing
Britain’s top billionaires with food and drink industry connections are Galen, Hilary and George Weston and family, with a net wealth of £7.3bn, up by £650M, partly thanks to their interests in Associated British Foods (ABF).
Premier Foods and other food and drink manufacturers are teaming up with retailers to tackle Britain’s youth unemployment, as part of the grocery think-tank IGD’s Feeding Britain’s Future campaign.
Food manufacturing excellence awards
This month (May) marks the formal launch of the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards, which are now open for entries.
Hilton Food Group reported rising volume sales as a result of the contract with Tesco it signed in December last year in its interim statement.
Food industry deals driven by overseas investors doubled in number in 2014’s first quarter, versus the same period last year, with overall investment reaching £833M, according to Grant Thornton.
More jobs are already being created by increasing demand for robots in the food industry, according to packing equipment manufacturer Pacepacker Services.
Grocery sales remained “in the doldrums” from February to April, according to leading food analyst Clive Black of Shore Capital, citing data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and accountants KPMG.
Now that common sense has been confirmed by a consumer survey that traffic light labelling is confusing and misleading, maybe the Department of Health (DH) should sit up, take stock and review its strategy on healthy eating