Two years after the unpopular takeover of Cadbury, US food giant Kraft Foods has opened its Global Centre of Excellence for chocolate research and development in Bournville, Birmingham.
The centre is part of a £17m investment that the American conglomerate sees as a way to confirm its commitment …
PepsiCo is investing £14.4m to increase the capacity of its Quaker Oats site at Cupar, Scotland, and increase its headcount by 30.
The investment, which builds on last year’s investment spend of £8.5m, makes a total of £51m that parent company PepsiCo has spent at the Quaker site over the past d…
The healthcare and food and drinks conglomerate has invested £18m in its Lucozade and Ribena manufacturing facility in Coleford, Gloucestershire.
The investment is for a new high speed bottling plant which will provide added capacity and improve cost efficiency by enabling GlaxoSmithKli…
The food and drink industry has been selected to inspire school children into careers in manufacturing by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Companies within the sector will open up their factories to visits from schools as part of this year’s ‘See Inside Manufacturing’ i…
A new deal on compulsory new food labels is set to give Europeans clear information on the nutritional and energy content of products, as well as country of origin.
According to a report by AFP, the European parliament has approved legislation to harmonise compulsory food package data, including u…
The London Bread & Cake Company is looking to increase its staff numbers by 40% ahead of an anticipated surge in work for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The independent wholesale bakery in Edmonton, based just two miles from the Olympics venue, is looking for bakery professionals to join its cur…
Fresh Del Monte plans to close a facility in York following a decision by retail chain Morrisons to withdraw a contract worth in the region of £16m.
The loss of the contract, which represents more than three-quarters of the work conducted on the site, led Fresh Del Monte to last week inform staff th…
Last year’s Fresh Connection winner, Mars, has returned to the competition this year with a clear desire to protect its championship title.
The SCALA Fresh Connection challenge, which has been running since 2010, is a competition which pits teams from FMCG companies against one another in …
USDAW, the trade union representing employees at toffee-maker McCowan’s, won a compensation claim on the grounds of the company’s failure to communicate with the Union prior to the redundancies. A Glasgow employment tribunal awarded the 103 former staff compensation of 60 days …
Owner of tea maker Tetley, Tata Global Beverages, has awarded a three year contract to Norbert Dentressangle for the UK storage and distribution of Tetley teas.
One of the main factors in Tata’s decision to award the contract to Norbert Dentressangle was its ability to collaborate with other lar…
