Inside food & drink manufacturing
The government would support the imposition of tariffs on imports of food and drink post Brexit to protect UK producers, despite it increasing prices for consumers, environment secretary Michael Gove revealed to MPs last month.
Oxford Farming Conference
Food manufacturers and farmers are helping government devise a new “gold-standard” scheme that measures food quality, in a bid to boost exports after Brexit, environment secretary Michael Gove revealed at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday (January 4).
Nestlé Waters is to expand its bottling and distribution plant in Buxton, Derbyshire, creating more than 70 new jobs.
News that Unilever’s Colman Mustard site in Norwich is to close in 2019 has been met with shock and anger by unions representing workers at the factory.
Poultry processor Moy Park has created 55 jobs at a new £20M hatchery in Nottinghamshire.
NFT
Food manufacturers should be open about their needs to third-party logistics firms if they want to receive the best market insight and value, the newly-appointed boss of NFT Distribution Operations has claimed.
The British soft drinks industry has welcomed Waitrose’s ban on the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children aged under 16.
Retail sales of frozen food were worth more than £6bn last year, breaking through the value milestone set by the industry in October.