British Bakels will launch a range of new products after a £2.5m ($3.8m) investment in a two-phase expansion plan at a UK manufacturing site, its MD says.
Warburtons and UK grain cooperative Openfield have created two new roles to drive standards and connections throughout their joint supply chain in a volatile and challenging wheat market.
International Paper is to acquire the remaining shares in its Turkish joint venture and said the market is set to grow at healthy levels over the next decade.
The new executive director of the Contract Packaging Association (CPA) has targeted membership growth, increased participation and industry awareness as her main objectives in an exclusive interview with FoodProductionDaily.com.
Diversified private-brand specialist Ralcorp Holdings has announced it will consolidate its cereal, pasta, snacks and sauces businesses at a price of $17m-$22m in a bid to improve efficiency, slash costs and drive business forward.
Struggling Australian food firm Goodman Fielder has lowered its full-year 2012 (FY12) earnings forecast as costly restructuring of its baking units and rocky trading conditions slam revenues.
Australian food firm Goodman Fielder is fusing its bakery business with three site closures as part of a strategic reorganisation of its business to reduce costs and improve efficiency amid struggling sales.
The UK bakery chain, Peters Bakery, has gone into administration, fuelled by a challenging retail environment and surging commodity and energy prices, according to an industry expert.
Food processors are facing a management crisis that could have disastrous consequences for the industry, according to a food industry resource center at a US university.
Dunreidy Engineering has become the latest firm to contribute to a project aimed at developing a sustainable whey protein coated film for food packaging.
Amcor has hailed the acquisition of Indian flexible packaging company Uniglobe as an important step in expanding its reach in the burgeoning sub-continent market.
Troubled food giant Premier Foods still has a mountain to climb despite ceo Michael Clarke’s decision to restructure the business and appoint two new managing director (mds), according to city analysts.
Allied Bakeries operations director, Nick Law, tells FoodManufacture.co.uk what makes a good manager. In an age of skills shortages, Law tells Mike Stones that the company looks for leaders, who drive staff to achieve more at a higher level collectively...
UK retailer Sainsbury’s is putting the emphasis on allergens in the production of own-brand foods supplied to its stores, as part of its academy training.
Ingredient supplier, Beneo, has announced a 20 per cent hike in the price of its sweetener Isomalt, citing rising inflation rates and the need to secure a flexible supply chain.
The European Bank (EBRD) has bought a €10m stake in Russian cake and biscuit producer Hlebprom, a partnership that will have financial as well as strategic benefits for the bakery manufacturer, said the bank.
DS Smith plans to become the leading supplier of recycled packaging for consumer goods in Europe, turning attention away from its paper manufacturing and office products businesses.
FoodProductionDaily.com caught up with Bizerba at the recent IPA trade show in Paris to hear about its single-drive belt checkweigher that scooped the process management and control award in the show's innovation competition.
Investments in European food processing machinery R&D are up on 2008 levels, with considerable innovation noted among exhibiting companies, reports the organisers of a trade event in Paris next month.
Canadian fertilizer maker Agrium Inc has moved closer to securing a $1.07 billion takeover of Australia's AWB Ltd after the Australian wheat exporter formally backed the offer.
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Bread ingredients supplier, Sonneveld, claims its takeover by Orkla Food Ingredients (OFI) will not result in a narrowing of the bakery ingredients supplier base due to OFI’s decentralized business model.
Packaging and product designers are to be offered free advice on how to adopt cleaner design principles, become more eco-literate, and avoid charges of greenwashing.
Nestle USA has said it is to begin using heat-treated flour in the manufacture of its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough two days after finding E.coli in samples of the product.
Cadbury has given a confident presentation of its stand-alone strategy in the midst of speculation that the company is unlikely to hold onto its independence following Kraft’s failed take-over bid.
Decision News Media, publisher of BakeryAndSnacks.com and 16 other websites serving the international food, nutrition, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, has been acquired by the leading UK business-to-business publisher William Reed Business Media.
US industrial food processing supplier JBT FoodTech has acquired Double D Food Engineering, one of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of custom-built ovens and cookers, for an undisclosed sum.
Firming up its health and safety credentials, contract plant and equipment firm European Process Plant (EPP), which works with bakers and food makers, has received a rubber stamp from the UK's best practice programme SAFEcontractor.
Texture analysis firm Food Technology's 'flagship' tool can tackle 'firmness', 'stickiness', and 'hardness' in the pursuit of consistent quality for bakery and snack products, says the company.
A supply chain conference next month will focus on managing risk in a volatile trading environment as well as how to use technology to optimise efficiency, claims a UK food and drink industry think tank.
Chr Hansen has sold its paprika business activities and production
facilities in Spain and India to allow it to focus on value-added
activities, the company announced on Thursday.
Testing times lie ahead for UK bakery manufacturers, according to
industry analyst group Plimsoll, who say one in four companies are
currently at risk of failure.
Companies that benchmark the performance of their supply chains
against other peers in theindustr performance typically cut nearly
$80m (€62m) within the first year, according to anew report.
Women looking to break through the glass barrier in the UK's food
manufacturing sector will haveaccess to management training under a
£500,000 public grant.
A guidance document released today by the UK's industry is designed
to help plant managers ensure their food safety professionals are
up-to-date with the latest proceedures.
