American wine and spirits company Brown-Forman is reportedly planning to consider second-round bids for the Whyte & Mackay whisky business, a move that could get around £350m.
Dewar's, a Scotch whiskey owned by Bermuda-based Bacardi, has revamped the packaging for its flagship whisky range, with the introduction of a new visual identity and bottle design.
Noting that the current collective response to climate change is inadequate, Unilever chief executive officer Paul Polman called for decisive action to tackle the issue.
Britain's major supermarkets are cutting prices but will struggle to stop Aldi and Lidl eating their profits as the German discounters look to double their share of the 170-billion pound ($282 billion) grocery market in the next three years.
Associated British Foods falls 3.6 percent, the top FTSEurofirst 300 faller in early deals, with traders citing negative read-across to the food and textile retailer's sugar business from a profit warning by Suedzucker .
Supermarket discount wars have long been the stuff of nightmares for grocery suppliers expected to slash their own prices in turn, but this time around in Britain many say they are sleeping just fine.
Freshgro is encouraging suppliers to go back to their roots with the development of white and purple Chantenay carrots, which not only hark back to the traditional varieties our ancestors used to eat, but are sweeter too.
St Neot’s Packaging, Cambridgeshire packaging manufacturer for the fast food and retail industries, has agreed a £9.15m funding package with Santander Corporate & Commercial
Wenlock Spring is one of the newer players in the UK water market with the first bottling taking place in 1989, from the source that has been supplying the old manor house and Wenlock Priory since the eleventh century.
Krones AG have for many years been the industry leaders in filling technology for the beverage industry, for Milk/Dairy, Waters, Soft Drinks, Wines, Spirits, Beers and Ciders.
Scottish distillers are weaning themselves away from fuel oil, as leading player Diageo makes biomass an integral policy and smaller players are aided by government subsidies
United Biscuits (UB) has launched a new £10 million advertising campaign for Jacob’s, signifying the next step in a business vision that has already seen the re-launch of the manufacturer’s McVitie’s brands in February this year.
