Inside food & drink manufacturing
Graze, the online retailer of healthy, portion-controlled snacks, which are sold direct to the consumer, continues it meteoric rise as it today reports a 31% increase in sales to £52.7M for the year ended February 28.
The Ryder Cup provided a “perfect platform” to showcase Scotland’s food and drink to more than 45,000 visitors from 75 countries on each day of the three-day golf tournament between Europe and the US, claimed the Edinburgh government.
Weekend fitness fanatics are driving the demand for more mainstream food and drink products, such as milk, fortified with sports nutrition ingredients.
Tesco has admitted batches of its pork sausages contained chicken, along with two other incidents of what it termed “crossover”, where products were found to contain meats not specified on the label.
The return of mackerel to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) ‘fish to eat’ list has been welcomed by the Scottish mackerel processing industry.
British manufacturers want overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, according to a survey by the manufacturers’ organisation EEF.
Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has joined other leading food and drink firms in praising the UK’s first food engineering degree, which begins today (September 29) at Sheffield Hallam University.
Cut price online retailer Approved Food could create 20 new jobs with a £350,000 investment in a new 60,000m2 headquarters in Sheffield to meet growing demand and remain efficient, according to the firm’s boss.
Aldi will attack the premium end of the food market by targeting wealthy consumers this Christmas, bosses have said, after announcing a 65% increase in its UK profits to £260.9M.
Tesco has suffered a further blow after testing revealed unlabelled meat content in products including venison burgers and pork sausages.