Müller Wiseman is building a new butter plant in Shropshire that will create 100 jobs by the end of 2013. Müller Wiseman's new butter plant in Shropshire will create 100 jobs by the end of the year The dairy firm is ...
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The UK Government has announced that Christine Tacon, ex-head of the Co-operative Group's farming business, will be its first Groceries Code Adjudicator. In her new role, Tacon will have the power to launch investigations into suspected ...
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Nearly 350 jobs are under threat at Vion's Welsh Country Foods' lamb processing facility on the Island of Anglesey, after the manufacturer warned today (January 11) that it could be forced to close the business. The firm has launched a ...
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Russia has agreed to ease a 16-year ban on the imports of beef and lamb from the UK. This move which is expected to contribute £80m to the UK food and farming industry over the next three years. The UK government expects to receive ...
With funding from The Hershey Co., Project Peanut Butter will make and distribute vitamin-enriched nutritional packets to impoverished children in rural Ghana. Through Project Peanut Butter, children in rural Ghana will receive ...
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Waitrose has launched a Farming Partnership initiative, which it says further demonstrates its commitment to UK farming. The Waitrose Farming Partnership is the new umbrella under which all the retailer's "agricultural farmer-focused ...
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Hershey has teamed up with Mexican cocoa supplier AMCO to re-introduce the cultivation of the commodity in the south of the country. The US confectioner has launched the Mexican Cocoa Project to help cocoa growing in a country where ...
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Vion Food UK has announced it could be forced to close its loss-making pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, putting nearly 1,700 jobs at risk. According to the company, the Hall's of Broxburn continued to record unsustainable ...