FSA: list all ingredients in store
Food outlets should list all ingredients to prevent allergy related incidents, as part of strict new rules proposed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Archives for May 8, 2019
FOOD WASTE
Government pledges £4m to fight food waste
Four food redistribution firms have received a combined £4.2m in Government funds to take more surplus food from manufacturers and retailers and prevent it going to waste.
FOOD WASTE
Food firms to benefit from saving ‘harder to reach’ surplus stock
Company Shop Group has been awarded nearly £2m (£1,960,575) in funding as part of the Government’s latest food waste reduction initiative.
Quorn Foods secures £123m debt facility
Meat alternatives manufacturer Quorn Foods has raised £123m of new debt facilities to fund the future growth of the business.
Banham Poultry submits new factory proposal
Banham Poultry has announced plans to move production back to its former site outside of Attleborough, Norfolk, as it looks to modernise its facilities.
2 Sisters set to offload puddings maker?
2 Sisters Food Group is expected to continue shedding “peripheral” businesses in a bid to focus on its core poultry offering, as reports surface it plans to auction off Christmas pudding manufacturer Matthew Walker.
York firms join forces to create gin-infused sorbet
Ice cream manufacturer Yorvale has built on its Yorkshire provenance by partnering with a neighbouring gin distillery to create a sorbet.
Business leaders
Hofmeister: Built up from the bear bones
Two longstanding friends are drawing on a Bavarian brewer’s process and recipe to successfully reinvent a well-known lager that was shelved 25 years ago.
Failed Sainsbury’s/Asda merger to delay supplier payments
Suppliers may be forced to wait even longer for payments from supermarkets in the wake of the Competition and Markets Authority’s rejection of the proposed Sainsbury’s/Asda merger, as delays continue to rise.