Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

A brand new Cornish bacon is launched this week having secured two food industry awards.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: John Wood

Plans for a £30M tomato growing business in Suffolk, which could produce about 10% of the UK’s tomatoes using heat from a nearby incinerator, have been unveiled.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Food manufacturers could benefit from cheaper supplies of dried sodium alginate, after scientists developed new technology to process the food gelling agent from seaweed extracts.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs, according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Meat firm Kettyle Irish Foods has won a £1.2M contract to export bacon to Albert Heijn, a leading European food retailer based in the Netherlands.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: John Wood

A plague of ‘zombie companies’ is threatening to suck the vitality out of the UK economy, according to leading insolvency experts, and the food manufacturing sector could be under threat.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: John Woods

Morrisons appears to be upping its game after its “very disappointing” third quarter, according to Shore Capital analysts Clive Black and Darren Shirley.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: John Wood

One of the UK’s largest salad producers Hedon Salads has gone into administration and stopped trading.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

UK-based bakery products supplier Country Choice has unveiled new ‘Fully Assembled’ breakfast muffins.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Kingsmill, the bread brand owned by Allied Bakeries, has unveiled price-marked packs for its Kingsmill Little Big Loaf and Kingsmill rolls ranges, in order to help retailers increase their sales.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The research collaboration has been set up to better understand if the nutrients and bioactives in fruits like grapes, strawberries and olives – in the right combination – could have a greater impact on people’s heart and vascular health.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Scientists at Leicester University in the UK have discovered a protein that ripens fruits early and could boost their value and sales dramatically.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Morrisons has launched the first UK grown Smitten™ apples. The chain has been the exclusive UK supplier of the apples for two years now, but this is the first time that UK grown fruit has been sold.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Joao Portugal Ramos (JP Ramos), a Portugal-based winery, has launched its low alcohol wines at UK stores to meet the growing demand among consumers for lighter and low alcohol white wines.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) is warning consumers not to eat certain peanut butter and peanut-based products which have been imported from the US because of possible contamination with salmonella.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Oliver Nieburg

The UK’s leading confectionery wholesaler Hancocks Group has been sold to H2 Equity Partners for around £50m ($78m).

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The Dutch firm behind haggis maker Hall's of Broxburn is selling its UK businesses, which employ 13,000 people at 38 sites across the country.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Mike Phillips has joined the Cogent Group where he takes on responsibility for sales for the group’s three companies – World Wide Sires UK, Dairy Daughters and Cogent Breeding Ltd.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

In the UK oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is our major vegetable oil crop. Over 700,000 hectares were grown this year, producing close to £900 million worth of seed.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The future of farming in the UK needs a united approach from government, researchers and industry to developing new knowledge and technologies, if it is to meet the challenges of the next two decades, a leading scientist has warned.