Published: Sep 17, 2012 By: JAMES R. JEFFREY

England native and baking entrepreneur Tracy Claros is already focused on Christmas due to making most of her money during the holiday shopping season.

Published: Sep 17, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Ingredients’ revenues will be similar to last year but operating profit will be sharply lower reflecting restructuring charges and the continuing operational challenges faced by AB Mauri, the yeast and bakery ingredients business.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The market for Mexican limes is fairly flat at the moment throughout Europe, Pedro Rodrigues from San Gabriel UK, puts this down to oversupply and mediocre quality. Both Mexican and Brazilian limes are on the market at the moment, with both countries expo

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

First Milk, a leading dairy farmer co-operative in the UK, has secured a £120m refinancing deal to fund its expansion into the food sector over the next three years.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Frozen fruit and vegetable processing company, Ardo UK has appointed Stuart Hiscott as marketing manager.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Gary Scattergood

The outgoing chief executive of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to join Tesco as group technical director.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

High street sandwich retailer Greggs has announced that Ian Durant will take over as chairman of the board next May.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: John Wood

Meat processor Vion UK has rejected an offer by the Scottish government to buy and lease back its threatened Hall’s of Broxburn plant to avert its closure and save 1,700 jobs at the site.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Anne Bruce

Strike action seems to have been averted at baker Warburtons’ sites nationwide, after the company come up with a “no strings attached”pay offer for staff.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Reducing the consumption of red and processed meats may significantly reduce the incidence of chronic diseases, such as certain cancers, diabetes and heart disease, and reduce greenhouse emissions by 28 million tons, according to a new study published in

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Samantha Edwards

A Liverpool craft bakery business has used social media site Twitter to announce the news that the business is being put up for sale.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Samantha Edwards

Pieminister has purchased its four-acre production site in Bristol to help double production over the next three years.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Is it a natural geranium extract or is it synthetic? The bulk of evidence is now pointing rather unfavourably for DMAA, and with many regulators now taking steps to ban its sale, NutraIngredients takes some time out to review how the DMAA story has develo

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Food manufacturing business guru Paul Wilkinson will take over as the chairman of Thorntons’ board of directors on February 1 2013.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Anne Bruce

Unions are urging bakery giant Warburtons to look at ways of keeping its Blackpool bakery open, after the company announced plans to close the site this week.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: John Wood

Meat processors have welcomed the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) new plan for official meat controls and how they should be financed.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Anne Bruce

The Chilled Food Association (CFA) says members may have smashed energy reduction targets set out in a Climate Change Agreement with the government by 62% − but they won’t be able to do an encore.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The fridge, pasteurisation and canning are the greatest three inventions in the history of food and drink, according to the Royal Society − the UK’s national academy of science.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Diageo Americas Supply has been sent an air pollution ‘notice of violation’ letter by city authorities in Louisville, Kentucky, which alleges that excess ethanol emissions from warehousing used to age whiskey led to breathing difficulties for some residen

Published: Sep 13, 2012 By: Gary Scattergood

Consumers are being ‘conned' by a certification system that means fair trade chocolate bars may not contain any fair trade chocolate.