This month's event will be waltzing to the heart of London’s movie-land with a menu of games linked to film and TV. Nomadic dice-throwing event Board Game Club is heading to Leicester Square this month to celebrate all things film ...
Tags: new toys, Board Game Club, toy
The first week of the new financial year dawned cold across the country, with snow hitting a number of regions over the course of the week, causing minor disruption to trade in some of John Lewis' shops. The strength of John Lewis' ...
Tags: John Lewis, Furniture
UK based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will invest around £2.3m in an effort to transform its present Lunsford Road facility into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The announcement for the conversion follows another announcement of ...
Tags: Tree Nut Production, Peanut, Agriculture
Leicester-based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will be investing around £2.3m to convert its current Lunsford Road site into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The company made this announcement after its September announcement of ...
Tags: confectionery, popcorn, dry goods packaging
The Leicester-based company has been developing a solution to combat the very bacteria that has been at the heart of the current chicken packaging scare. The FSA said of the 70% of chicken, 18% of it was contaminated at the very highest ...
Tags: bacteria, contaminated chicken, Packaging
UK-based packaging firm Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) has invested £11m at a new facility that will help them boost their annual turnover from the current £17m to £25m in three years. The firm will be relocating ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Packaging
John Lewis reports that its Home department enjoyed a superb week's trade for the week ending 5th July, with furniture being the star of the show, recording an all-time record week for the summer season. Beds in particular drove this ...
Tags: John Lewis, Trade, Furniture
Hovis Bakery plans to shut its production facility in Leicester, UK, by 2015. The move could result in the loss of 200 jobs at the facility. Members of the Bakers and Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) will meet with company ...
Tags: Hovis Bakery, Leicester, Agriculture
The business is located in Leicester and has a Ugandan subsidiary. It specialises in the manufacture of packaging, packaging machinery and contract packing for the food sector. In 2013 Khalid was awarded the "Pearl of Africa Lifetime ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Packaging
DeSL a global company delivering integrated web based solutions for the Fashion, Apparel, Textile and Footwear sectors, announces that Basic Thinking Limited, a UK based clothing manufacturer has selected the DeSL Fashion PLM & ERP ...
Tags: DeSL PLM Software, Textile
Collaboration between retailers, brands, their manufacturing partners and suppliers is starting to drive a recovery in the UK’s garment making sector. This was the optimistic and overwhelming conclusion of speakers at the recent ASBCI ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Textile
Wooden game has a rich history in Western Africa and Banyan believes UK retailers should get on board. Banyan, a company specialising in African and Caribbean heritage products and services, is bringing wooden game Banyan Wari to the UK ...
Tags: Toys, Wooden Toys
The National Skills Academy for Retail (NSAR), in partnership with the Association of Town and City Management (ATCM) are to launch the new Digital High Street Skills Programme at the Future High Street Summit which takes place in the ...
Tags: New High Street Skills Programme, NSAR, ATCM, partnership
Company has been fined £16,500 for breach of safety regulations A discount store company has been fined £16,500 for selling children's toys containing toxins 70 times the legal safe level. 99p Stores in Loughborough was ...
Tags: Toys, children's toys, high levels of phthalates, containing toxins
A so-called implantable insulin delivery device could one day free people with type 1 diabetes from the need for multiple daily injections, scientists say. "Diabetes is a difficult-to-treat condition, and yet keeping in very good balance ...