British grocer J Sainsbury's nine-year run of quarterly sales growth came to an end on Tuesday, underlining the pressure on the industry as a battle over prices intensifies in a fragile economic recovery.
Tetra Pak® has announced that Valio, Finland’s leading dairy company, has chosen Tetra Brik® Aseptic 200ml and 250ml Edge for its baby foods, protein drinks and creams.
Action on Sugar is ramping up its calls for the UK Government to use the lessons learnt from the successful UK salt reduction programme to do the same with sugar.
Rising industry costs and inflation have led to market growth of 6.9 per cent between 2012 and 2013, according to Meat and Meat Products 2014, a market report from market intelligence group Key Note.
Meat processor Dawn Meats has won the award for ‘Environmental Impact’ at the South West Wales Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2014, run in association with the University of South Wales.
Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
UK-based Sunrise Bakery has secured £75,000 funding from Positive Cashflow Finance, as it seeks to expand its presence and broaden its product portfolio.
Online takeaway service Just Eat plans to raise 100 million pounds ($166.3 million) from listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange in April, joining a surge of companies seeking flotations, it said on Monday.
Huntingdon based Solo Cup Europe, part of Dart Container, has won the prestigious Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) Award 2014 for its ‘Sustainable Christmas’ campaign.
Discounters continue to surpass all other U.K. supermarkets in terms of sales growth and share of the market, according to data released recently by Kantar Worldpanel.
CMB Engineering, a leading worldwide provider of canmaking machinery, has announced it will be showcasing the company’s latest groundbreaking technologies at MetPack (Essen, Germany; May 6-10th 2014).
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc (MRW), the smallest of the U.K.’s four main grocers, said profit will plunge this year and pledged to sell £1 billion ($1.7 billion) of property, sending the shares down the most since 2008.
Sales of organic meat, poultry and fish increased by 2.2% in 2013, as the Soil Association announced the first growth in the total organic market for four years.
