Supply chains
Food and drink warehousing needs to adapt to more automation
Food and drink warehousing will need to adapt for more automation as the availability of labour falls and costs increase.
Archives for October 9, 2017
Food firms urged to simplify food date labels worldwide by 2020
Food companies have been urged to simplify food date labels worldwide by 2020, by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), which counts Tesco, Kellogg, Walmart, Nestlé, Carrefour and Unilever among its members.
Brexit policy must consider dairy industry’s needs: NFU
The dairy industry’s needs must be recognised in British trade, labour and a domestic agricultural policy to ensure it remains competitive post-Brexit, urged the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Bingham & Jones
NPD experts unveil new innovation kitchens
Top food innovators Jonny Bingham and David Jones claim their new product development (NPD) potential has been significantly boosted by the opening of two new ‘innovation kitchens’.
Opinion
Sustainable and healthy food systems needed
Some of the world’s biggest food manufacturers and retailers have agreed to simplify food date labels by 2020 in an attempt to reduce the vast quantities of food that is unnecessarily wasted each year.
Meat exports grow despite Brexit uncertainty
Exports of Welsh red meat are rising despite uncertainties surrounding Brexit, according to HCC, the Welsh meat promotional body.
2 Sisters welcomes wider Food Standards Agency probe
2 Sisters Food Group has welcomed the Food Standards Agency (FSA) plan to widen its investigations into standards at the manufacturer’s poultry plants in England and Wales.
Fox’s Biscuits ‘in merger talks with Burton’s Biscuits’
Boparan Holdings, owner of 2 Sisters Food Group, is in talks about a merger of its Fox’s Biscuits brand with Jammie Dodgers manufacturer Burton’s Biscuits, according to Sky News.
Supply chains opinion
More FSA resources to meet hard Brexit
Given Boris Johnson’s continued hotly contested assertion that repatriation of the UK’s £350M weekly contribution to the EU could provide a huge additional spending boost to the NHS, that won’t leave much left for the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Coca-Cola European Partners plans to cut drinks packaging
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has teamed up with the University of Reading, in a bid to cut soft drinks packaging by providing students with refillable bottles.
Supply chains
Why food and drink firms should learn to love blockchains
It may spark associations with chain gangs, but ‘blockchains’ are all about providing trust for supply chain partners and consumers.
supply chains
Food logististics firms grapple with Brexit challenges
Hauliers are particularly worried about what the future will hold post-Brexit. But, with so much uncertainty, it is difficult to plan ahead.