Maelor Foods opens Wrexham chicken factory
Maelor Foods’s new £20M poultry processing plant in Wrexham will be officially opened by ministers from the Welsh Assembly and the Mayor of Wrexham tomorrow (November 23).
Archives for November 22, 2017
Finsbury’s sales rise in first quarter results
Speciality cake and bread manufacturer Finsbury Food Group’s sales grew by 4% to £105.5M in the first four months of the 2017/18 financial year.
Brexit talks
Sir Ivan Rogers: ‘No Brexit deal would be a very bad deal’
Failing to strike a trade deal with the EU before Brexit would be “a very bad deal indeed” for the UK food and farming industry, former top civil servant Sir Ivan Rogers told a forum organised by the National Farmers Union (NFU) on Monday (November 20).
Food supply chain and logistics firm reveals partnership
Food and drink logistics firm Fowler Welch has agreed a partnership with Scottish chilled food haulier JHP Transport, to grow the company and value for its customers.
Food packaging firm fined £100k for hand crush
A company that manufactures packaging for the food and drink industry has been fined £100,000 for health and safety offences, after a worker’s hand was crushed.
FMEAs 2017
Artisan bakery wins food manufacturing Oscar
Craft baker The Bread Factory has won the coveted Bakery Manufacturing Company of the Year trophy in the industry’s Oscars – the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards – at The Hilton on Park Lane in London, earlier this month.
Hotpack Packaging creates 250 jobs in north Wales
Food packaging supplier Hotpack Packaging is to create 250 jobs in Wrexham, north Wales, as it plans to move its European headquarters to the town.
Budget 2017
Budget: chancellor urged to protect ‘food industry bedrock’
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget should protect the “bedrock” of the UK food industry, says the National Farmers Union (NFU), while business leaders urged him to help the nation “grow its way out of austerity”.