Noble Foods constructs a new egg packing centre
Noble Foods has completed the construction of a £10M egg-packing centre in Oxfordshire, which is now providing up to 14.4M free-range eggs a week to the UK’s leading supermarkets.
Archives for February 11, 2015
Graze picks plenty with linear motors
Graze, the online snack supplier and recipient of the Judges’ Star Performer Award in last year’s Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards, solved a seemingly intractable problem of filling separate compartments of its multiple-variant postal snack boxes by...
Dairy UK launches industry election manifesto
Dairy UK has launched a manifesto setting out what the dairy industry expects of the main political parties as they prepare to fight the forthcoming general election in May.
Don't play chicken with campylobacter
Retailers are coming under increasing flak to adopt better measures to combat high levels of campylobacter in poultry on sale. Michelle Knott reports
Business Leaders' Forum
Retailer promotions in the firing line
Food and drink manufacturers face big challenges during 2015 as the multiple supermarkets adopt new business models to fight back against hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl.
Labour does a u-turn on landfill ban for food waste
The Labour Party’s decision to drop plans to make a ban on food waste being sent to landfill part of its 2015 election manifesto has been slammed by companies that convert food waste into reusable energy, fertiliser and animal feed.
Britain needs a pay rise: David Cameron
Britain needs a pay rise, according to the Prime Minister David Cameron but the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged caution.
Quorn sees January sales surge
Quorn Foods has attributed a surge in sales over January to increased demand for more sustainable diets.
Tulip creates 145 Gloucestershire jobs
Tulip is creating 145 jobs at its Westerleigh production facility in Gloucestershire as a result of its £16M project to expand the site.
Red Tractor boss rejects Welsh beef accreditation fears
Welsh beef farmers’ fears Red Tractor accreditation would “increase costs” throughout the supply chain without any return have been dismissed by David Clarke, boss of Assured Food Standards (AFS), which operates the Red Tractor quality assurance scheme.
Premier Foods has its ‘foot on the gas’ – ceo
Premier Foods will pump up to £25M into its production facilities in a bid to boost output and efficiencies across the UK and bolster its recovery this year, according to ceo Gavin Darby.
Quorn invests for growth
Quorn’s Billingham production site is receiving some much needed investment, its factory manager Steven Finn tells Nicholas Robinson
Industry must take lead in bridging skills gap
Manufacturers will have to rely on their own resources to bridge the skills gap they face, rather than waiting for the government to take the lead, the head of the National Skills Academy (NSA) for food and drink has warned.
Tesco returns to growth, but market share dips
Tesco’s sales are rising again as growth in UK grocery sales speeds up, but its market share is still falling, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Consumers plan to buy less salty products
Sales of salty snacks could be hit as health-conscious consumers plan to remove them from their shopping baskets in the year ahead, according to information and insights company Nielsen.
Food industry could be ‘first hit’ by EU exit vote
The food and drink industry may be among the first sectors to be hit, if the UK votes to quit the EU in two years’ time and firms should start planning to minimise the disruption that may follow.