£4M investment creates 50 jobs at Cornish pasty firm
Proper Cornish has pumped £4M into a new 6,781m² handmade pastry production facility, which will open later this year, creating 50 new jobs.
Archives for June 4, 2015
Sugar tax pushed by Scotland doctors
A call for a tax on sugary food and drinks from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh today will hike the pressure on industry to help tackle the UK’s obesity epidemic by making products healthier.
Food manufacturing boss slams NHS sugar criticism
A leading food and drink industry boss has slammed criticism of the sector’s record on curbing sugar levels voiced by the chief executive of the National Health Service England (NHS).
Bread, Greencore and retailers make week’s top news
A potential growth fall for Aldi and Lidl and the impact supermarket price wars have had on bakers lead our selection of the week’s top news.
Conservatives may consider privatising the AHDB
The future of the agriculture levy boards, which form part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB,) in public hands could be in doubt following the suggestion by a senior industry source that the Conservative government might...
Discounters remain key part in retail growth
Hard discounters will remain a key feature in the UK grocery market, estimated to grow 13% to £200.6bn by 2020, despite predictions their growth could be about to fade.
Supermarkets step up unannounced supplier audits
Unannounced hygiene audits of supermarkets’ food and drink suppliers are becoming increasingly common, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Professor Chris Elliott, who carried out the investigation into the 2013 horsemeat contamination...
500 new jobs at discounter B&M
Northern discounter B&M will create 500 jobs at two new warehouses, it confirmed after reporting 2014 sales of £1.6bn last week.