HSBC has provided a £2.4m funding package to Gilbert’s Foods, a food supplier based in Lancashire, UK, in order to help the company expand its export business.
The United Kingdom’s Department of Health has launched a new front-of-pack nutritional label that the agency believes will make it easier for people to make healthier choices.
Bruichladdich has opened a new unit, Bruichladdich UK Distribution, in Glasgow, Scotland to distribute the Bruichladdich range of Islay single malt Scotch whiskies and The Botanist, Islay dry gin.
UK-based shortbread manufacturer Paterson Arran has added Clotted Cream Shortbread Fingers, and a new Shortbread and Biscuit Assortment to its existing product line under Paterson’s brand.
Whitbread, a UK-based global hotel, coffee shop and restaurant firm, has reported an increase in total sales by 13.8% for the 13 weeks (first quarter) to 30 May 2013.
Discount retailers Aldi and Lidl and higher-end Waitrose are taking more business away from Britain's so-called "Big Four" grocers, as the market's polarisation intensifies, monthly industry data showed on Tuesday.
Britain's major food manufacturers and retailers have agreed to follow the same system of nutritional labelling as part of a government initiative to tackle obesity and poor diet.
The Edrington Group (TEG) plans to expand its international distribution network by establishing new sales, marketing and distribution companies in the US, South East Asia and the Middle East.
Chivas Brothers, a Scotch whiskey and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard, has re-opened Glen Keith distillery in Keith, Moray on 14 June 2013 to meet increasing worldwide demand for its luxury Scotch whiskies.
All date codes of milk and cream products produced at Dunn’s Dairy (not to be confused with Dunn’s Dairy of Underdown Farm, Exbourne) are affected by the recall.
American food company Heinz is set to cut about 45 production and management jobs at its site in Kendal, Cumbria, UK, as part of its plan to improve efficiency.
Müller Wiseman Dairies has confirmed that it is to begin statutory consultations on the future of its distribution depots at Keith and Whitburn in the UK.
New research from Mintel finds that volume sales in the UK of small cakes have now overtaken large cakes, with a market share of 44% and 37% respectively.
