Four reasons to run an ESOS energy audit
Energy audits required by the EU’s Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) can help food manufacturers with more than energy savings, explains Golder Associates’ Ruth Fain and Dave Mercer.
Archives for April 12, 2015
Healthy children's ready meals go global
A healthy children’s ready meal start-up is set to go global and has joined forces with the popular kid’s book The Gruffalo.
Hovis’s first convenience director starts work
Former Lindt & Sprüngli and Innocent Drinks man Tim Stoller officially took over as the first ever convenience director at Hovis last week, according to media reports.
Innovation conference
Food futurology is ‘key to new product innovation’
Futurology can play a key role in helping food and drink manufacturers make wise investments in new product development, according to futurologist Morgaine Gaye.
Morrisons ‘warned’ to stick with manufacturing
Food manufacturing is essential to the future success of Morrisons, this website’s readers have ‘warned’ the retailer’s boss David Potts, following conflicting advice from City analysts.
Carr’s boss voices concern over bread range cuts
Supermarkets pruning bread ranges will hit the wider bakery supply chain, according to Tim Davies, ceo of Carr’s Group, who said the situation was worrying.
Fried flavour without the fat
Scientists at a US university have developed a powdered or wet batter coating for baked products that imparts the attributes of fried foods.
Vitafoods 2015
Perfect ingredients for a show
Explosive growth in the food and drink ingredients sector will boost its overall value to €59bn by 2018. Nicholas Robinson finds out how companies at Vitafoods are responding to the predicted uptick
Iceland recalls salmon on undeclared almond fears
Frozen food chain Iceland has recalled its Blackened Salmon Portions, after it disclosed they may have become contaminated with undeclared almonds.
Morrisons group trading director steps down
Casper Meijer is to step down as group trading director at Morrisons with immediate effect.
60 jobs saved as Corby bakery bought
60 jobs have been saved at Corby bakery Bakeaway, which supplies supermarket own-label products, thanks to the business being bought out of administration after an eleventh hour rescue bid.
Campaigners renew call for fresh supermarket bread
Campaigners have renewed calls for tougher regulation of supermarket bread after Australian supermarket Coles was fined AU$2.5M (£1.3M) for making misleading claims about its par baked bread.
ELECTION 2015
What start-ups need from a new UK government
More financial support must be given to food and drink start-ups by the next UK government if they are to survive their first year in business, Miso Tasty founder Bonnie Chung has urged.