Food manufacturers focus on energy efficiency
Although energy resilience is also key, many more businesses are investigating where the biggest potential energy efficiency gains lie.
Archives for February 16, 2017
Hard Brexit could hit UK food and drink importers
More uncertainty will be created in the currency markets, which could hit UK food and drink importers, a foreign exchange specialist has warned, after it emerged that a ‘hard Brexit’ was more likely following Prime Minister Theresa May’s 12-point plan...
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans get mixed reception
Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech last month on the direction of travel post-Brexit, in which the UK would quit the EU Single Market, received a mixed response from business leaders and politicians.
‘Bad bosses should face jail’ over unpaid staff wages
Employers “should face jail” for failing to pay staff the minimum wage, the Unite union has claimed, after the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) named and shamed 360 companies who owed workers nearly £1M in unpaid wages.
Greencore Grocery and 13 other food firms underpay staff by total of £36k
Greencore Grocery and 13 other food and drink firms failed to pay 64 employees their full wages, totalling more than £36,000, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Smart food and drink factories reveal future
This could be the year when the ‘smart factory’, Industry 4.0 and the ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’ – a world in which automation and data exchange in manufacturing work together in an interconnected way – really starts to take off, according to experts in...
Me and my factory
Seabrook Crisps boss explains firm’s revival
Seabrook Crisps chief operating officer Daniel Woodwards explains how he has helped to turn around the manufacturer’s fortunes.
Wyke Farms rethinks deal with pig farm after video emerges
Wyke Farms is reviewing its partnership with JMW Farms Ltd’s Lambrook Pig Farm, after video footage obtained by animal welfare and vegan lobbyist Viva! claimed to show the farm’s pigs were living among dead pigs.