Universal Picture's smash-hit Minions characters helped boost revenues at UK bakery business Finsbury Food Group to more than £150m ($211m) in the first half of its financial year.
The higher minimum wage set for the US state of California will see more bakeries turning to automation and robots, says bakery equipment supplier All Bake Technologies.
Two union actions -- one involving worker safety, the other a pay
dispute -- highlight the unwanted public such conflicts can draw to
UK food processers.
The UK's leading retailer of bakery-related products, Greggs, has
announced better-than-expected sales for the 18 weeks to 16
October, helping the company to hold off rising costs.