Inside food & drink manufacturing
Nutrition experts have reacted with scepticism to research that found a “significant” link between price and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) following a trial in a chain of restaurants owned by Jamie Oliver.
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) flagship Regulating Our Future (ROF) programme has been criticised for being “on a wobble”, by a leading food hygiene auditing expert.
Frozen desserts manufacturer Beechdean Ice Cream has acquired Lovington’s Ice Cream, after buying more shares in the business for an undisclosed amount.
FMEAs 2017
Dalehead Foods has won the coveted Meat, Poultry and Seafood Manufacturing Company of the Year trophy in the industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards – at The Hilton on Park Lane in London last week (Wednesday, November 1).
Sainsbury has reported that a focus on food quality, price and innovation helped its supermarket business grow food transactions ahead of the market in its latest interim results for the 28 weeks to September 23 2017.
A fast-growing healthy snack manufacturer is set to double its turnover by the end of the year after securing a deal to supply online retailer Ocado.
Dairy Crest has reported “an encouraging first half” in its interim results published yesterday (November 9) for the six months ended September 30 2017.
Bakkavor’s plans to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) are back on exactly a week after the own-label chilled foods business announced it had decided against a flotation due to adverse market conditions.