Tesco was ‘smart’ in £3.7bn deal with Booker
Tesco’s £3.7bn mega merger with Booker will give the business first-mover advantage in competing against online giant Amazon, analysts claimed, as consumers are increasingly shopping online.
Archives for January 27, 2017
Tesco’s £3.7bn deal with Booker ‘to benefit suppliers’
Tesco says its £3.7bn merger with food wholesaler Booker will give suppliers “a broader market opportunity and strong growth prospects”, claiming the deal will create the “UK’s leading food business”.
Warburtons fined £2M for worker’s fall
Warburtons has been fined £2M for health and safety failings, after a worker was hospitalised after sustaining life changing injuries following a fall from a mixing machine.
Unilever’s food sales and profits rise
Unilever Foods reported a 2.6% rise in underlying profit in its full-year trading update, despite the manufacturer’s operating margin falling 0.3%.
Membrane filter turns food waste into animal feed
Membrane filtration technology can create new revenue streams from various food processing by-products, according to Axium Process, which has conducted pilot trials on extracted proteins from egg waste for use as animal feed.
Maelor opens new chicken plant
Maelor Foods, part of Salisbury Poultry (Midlands), has selected equipment from Marel Poultry for use within the company’s brand new plant located at Wrexham in north Wales.
Monobeam construction for vibratory conveyor
A new family of vibratory conveyors from Key Technology features an innovative frame made of a single structural member or monobeam construction.
Novel Bute Island Foods cheese lid causes challenges
A set of distinctively-shaped lids for a new range of dairy-free cheese from Bute Island Foods has been produced by Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury (formerly Chadwicks).
Moy Park created 70 jobs from £4M investment
Poultry processor Moy Park has confirmed 70 jobs were created from the completed £4M investment at its Ashbourne factory, which can now process more than 1M chickens every week.
Ring pull problems get analysed
An end could be in sight to consumer frustration when trying to open metal packaging that is too stiff, or where the ring pull detaches from the lid, thanks to a new development from texture analysis experts at Stable Micro Systems.
Maintenance-free bearings cut downtime
By switching to a maintenance-free type of bearing, an unnamed UK milk processing plant is claimed to have achieved annual savings of £10,000 caused by repeated bearing failures in an inaccessible area on one of its principal conveyors, where...
University fined £400k for near fatal experiment
The University of Northumbria in Newcastle has been fined £400,000, after a botched caffeine experiment nearly killed two students.
Food boss appointed at NFU
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has appointed Philip Hambling as its new head of food and farming, to lead its food chain and commodity areas.
Robust heavy-duty tubular chain drag conveyor launched
Chainflow is a new heavy-duty tubular chain drag conveyor from Spiroflow, which has been introduced to meet evolving industry needs.
Diageo’s profits boosted by US sales
Alcoholic beverages giant Diageo has posted operating profits of more than £2bn in its interim report released yesterday (January 26), boosted by improved performance in the US.
Food sorting machines bring clarity
A new way of designating food sorting machines has been announced by Tomra to bring clarity and simplicity to the way they can be identified and specified by customers.
Food manufacturers invited to star in BBC food award
Food manufacturers, large and small, with a track-record of food chain innovation are being invited to star in the BBC Future Food Award.
Encapsulation kit for filled cookies
An encapsulation system enabling high-value filled cookies to be made on any Baker Perkins wirecut machine is now available.
Quick pulse heat sealing unit cuts film use
Potato processor Albert Bartlett has retrofitted Ceetak’s quick pulse heat (QPH) sealing technology onto the vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS) machines at its Norfolk production facility.
Business Leaders’ Forum
FDF boss urges PM to offer labour supply assurances
The UK food industry urgently needs assurances from the prime minister about the security of EU nationals working in the UK after Brexit, says Food and Drink Federation (FDF) director general Ian Wright.
More regulation may be needed after the sugar tax
More sugar regulation might be necessary after the introduction of the sugar levy in April 2018, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has claimed, after research showed that more than one-in-five children started school overweight or...
Thatchers Cider installs its first canning line at Myrtle Farm facility
Somerset cidermaker Thatchers Cider has commissioned its first canning line at its Myrtle Farm production facility, which means it is now able to press and package all of its ciders at this site. Thatchers has invested £8.3M onsite.
BD Foods creates 40 jobs
Up to 40 jobs are to be created at sauce and marinade manufacturer BD Foods, as the firm moves into a custom-built factory in St Leonards, Hastings.