Inside food & drink manufacturing
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has pledged to help suppliers, staff and clients after Britain’s biggest wholesaler to the grocery and convenience stores, Palmer & Harvey, was taken into administration, with the immediate loss of about 2,500 jobs.
Cargill has opened a new solar power facility at its cocoa and chocolate site in Tema, Ghana, part of its global strategy of investing in environmentally friendly, renewable ways of generating power for industrial production.
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Confectionery manufacturer The Grown Up Chocolate Company has secured a £675,000 investment from specialist bank Aldermore to support business growth.
Dairy processor Wyke Farms has partnered with The Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative (OMSCo) to create a new cheese manufacturing business.
2 Sisters Food Group is to create 100 new jobs at its East Anglian chicken processing facility, following an upgrade of the factory ahead of the busy Christmas period.
Kellogg has revealed plans to cut the sugar content of three of its top selling children’s breakfast cereals by up to 40% by the end of next year, as it drops cereals high in sugar from the range.
Ice cream accompaniment manufacturer Marcantonio Foods has been fined £300,000, after a worker had four fingers amputated while operating a metalworking lathe.
Gluten-free sausage brand The Black Farmer is to launch a range of pork products using pork raised without antibiotics, the first mainstream brand to do so, it claimed.