Food safety conference: early bird offer ends Tuesday
There are just five days left to benefit from the early bird ticket offer for the Food Manufacture Group’s one-day, Food safety conference at the Lowry, Manchester September 29.
Archives for June 25, 2015
2 Sisters Gunstones staff in ‘last-ditch’ pay talks
Staff at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Gunstones bakery in Sheffield will hold last-ditch talks over a pay dispute with management before deciding on further strike action, it has emerged.
Veg gangmaster pair jailed for illegal £1.6M business
A Lithuanian couple who built an illegal £1.6M gangmaster business “based on fraud, lies and deception” – involving the supply of labour for field scale vegetable crops – has been jailed.
Tesco’s haemorrhaging sales slow
Tesco boss Dave Lewis has slowed the retailer’s haemorrhaging sales, as his plans to regain customers from the discounters Aldi and Lidl achieved a dip of just 1.3%, its first quarter results show.
Tesco’s shareholders are ‘on the warpath’
Tesco’s shareholders are “on the war path” and ceo David Lewis’s bonus could be an early scalp, claims a business recovery specialist.
Bakery profits on rise after skills training
A Yorkshire bakery has boosted profits by lifting output, cutting waste and improving communication between teams, after implementing a skills training programme.