Food and Beverage

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Nestlé ups sticks putting 230 jobs at risk

The food manufacturer is closing its Hayes facility, placing 230 jobs at risk as part of its consolidation for its coffee manufacturing business. The company’s coffee production will move to its site in Tutbury, Derbyshire, ...
Premier Foods will cut 600 jobs and sell off non-core business

Premier Foods plans to cut 5% of workforce

Premier Foods plans to divest non-core businesses and cut its workforce by about 600 jobs as part of cost cutting in response to weak consumer demand. Premier, Britain’s biggest foods group, is on a cost ...
Wiseman Dairy Milk ready for dispatch

Three wise men crumble at Müller’s offer

Wiseman Dairies, Britain’s biggest supplier of fresh milk was snapped up today for £279.5m after months of negotiations. Robert Wiseman Dairies, which supplies the UK with around a third of its fresh milk, agreed a ...
Unilever pensions strike

Unite announces further strikes at Unilever

A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit consumer goods manufacturer Unilever’s UK operations for up to ten days. Workers are stepping up action against the changes Unilever has made to pension schemes, ...
Fried Twinkies photo by Jason Anfinsen

Twinkies maker files for bankruptcy

Texas-based Hostess Brands, the maker of the famous sweet treats Twinkies and Ding Dongs, yesterday filed for bankruptcy, owing almost $1bn to the Bakery & Confectionary Union & Industry International Pension Fund. According to a report ...
Glenfiddich, Dufftown

Glenfiddich distillery shocked after man drowns

Brian Ettles ‘jumped into a vat of water and yeast’, the Scottish Sun newspaper reported, although Grampian police have not revealed where the body was found. The father of two was pronounced dead at the ...
Premier Foods Bisto production line

OEE the Premier way

Premier Foods is the UK’s largest food producer, with over 60 UK and Ireland sites, around 15 thousand employees, and a £2.7 billion turnover. It’s no wonder then that Premier Foods has people with cohesive ...
Mr Kipling, cakes, food.

FDF welcomes the use of embassies to boost exports

Plans to use the UK’s foreign embassies to help promote UK food and drink internationally have been welcomed at a time when new figures show that the sector’s exports grew by 12.2% in 2011. Secretary ...

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