Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

TV Apprentice finalist Nick Holzherr has secured a £170,000 investment for his recipe website, after being ‘fired’ by Lord Sugar.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Most major UK supermarkets operate sourcing policies that promote British produce but all could do more, reveals a new survey from the National Farmers Union (NFU).

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

The first four awards for Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) were made to individuals within the food manufacturing sector earlier this month.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Dairy Crest is to sell its French spreads business St Hubert to Montagu Capital for £344M (€430m).

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

The architect of a Taiwanese ‘bubble tea’ sensation sweeping London tells that his firm Bubbleology would be happy to discuss an attractive retail-focused partnership, but the current focus is on taking its café concept to Europe and beyond.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

The UK’s first beverage carton reprocessing plant is to be established thanks to a partnership between packaging giants Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak with Sonoco Alcore.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

United Biscuits has invited year 10 students from Manchester-based Parrs Wood High School to visit its McVitie's factory in Manchester, as a partner in the government-led initiative to encourage young people to take up a career in food and drink manufactu

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Sweet spreads have outshone the other segments in Indian syrups & spreads market during 2011, according to a new analysis by UK-based research firm Canadean – Food.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Scotland has a lot to learn from Norway’s approach to fisheries management and how they develop fishing communities.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

The latest issue of FSA e-News has been published and is available online. The newsletter includes news and updates on some of the Agency’s activities during June.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Lituanica is recalling Pasaka Makeroni vermiseliai pasta which is labelled as “egg free pasta”.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Irish food company Greencore has acquired HC Schau & Son, a US-based fresh food manufacturer, for a cash consideration of $13m (£8.3m). The agreement also includes deferred cash consideration of $4.3m (£2.8m).

Published: Jun 29, 2012 By: Paul Gander

Growth of 6% in the value of retail chilled and frozen food sales, though partly explained by price inflation, can also be accounted for by an increasingly segmented offering in many product areas, say sector organisations.

Published: Jun 29, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

The government should focus more on the contribution that food and drink manufacture makes to the economic prosperity of the nation, rather than focusing as it does on other sectors, said Simon Baldry, md of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE).

Published: Jun 29, 2012 By: Mike Stones

West Midlands food manufacturer Phoenix Brands was ordered to pay £11,000 at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court after a 16-year-old worker had to have his finger amputated.

Published: Jun 29, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

DS Smith said a fundamental shift in its material strategy coupled with the strong performance of its French subsidiary, cost cutting measures and volume growth all combined to produce buoyant full year results in what had been a 'pivotal' 12 months for t

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Laurence Olins, Chairman of British Summer Fruits, which represents 90 per cent of berries supplied to UK supermarkets, said "There is ample supply of British strawberries now and for the rest of the summer," contrary to some press reports of a shortage.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

The future of Iglo group is up in the air, after private equity allies Blackstone and BC Partners refused to sweeten an offer that had been turned down by the frozen food unit's current owner, the Permira Group.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

The master and owner of the fishing vessel Kelly Marena II was today (28 June) sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates Court for fishing illegally within a protected area of Lyme Bay, off the Devon and Dorset coast.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Scottish rope grown mussels from the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) have achieved the prestigious Marine Stewardship Council.