Dunbia Northern Ireland, part of the Dunbia Group, is set to invest 27m to create a new intelligent boning hall and upgrade the company's beef mince line as well as diced & burger line at its Tyrone meat processing plant. The company's ...
North Yorkshire based pork supplier Karro Food Group is set to invest £10m into processing and production as part of its UK investment programme. Under this programme, Karro will invest £6.5m into new chilling and processing ...
Tags: Karro Food, Food Processing, Food Production
Footfall in January was 1.2% lower than a year ago, down on the 0.7% fall in December. Shopping centres reported the largest decline, falling 2.8%, while high streets experienced a 1.6% decline in footfall, up on the 1.8% fall in December. ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Footfall
The Northern Ireland government has confirmed it will implement the UK-wide proposed regulations on standardised packaging for cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco. The decision comes after the Welsh government gave its consent last week ...
The Welsh government has confirmed it will implement the UK government’s proposed regulation for standardised packaging of all cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco products. Last week, the UK government confirmed its plans to ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging Legislation, tobacco products, Agriculture
The ecigarette company ECigaretteDirect.co.uk, which is based in Swansea, has been chosen to be a candidate for Living Wage Champion Awards 2014. ECigaretteDirect sells ecigarettes and vape product online and also through stores located all ...
Uform has won at the annual Ireland Kitchen Trade Guide Awards, where it was named Supplier of the Year 2014-2015. Uform has come a long way since its foundation twenty one years ago. Established in 1993, the company has grown from ...
Tags: Kitchen Trade, Furniture
David Feherty, the former professional golfer and renowned announcer, will speak at the 51st Annual NSGA Management Conference & Team Dealer Summit in Austin, TX. He will speak at a Tuesday session on May 5, 2015. The longest-running ...
UK smoking rate has been reduced to its lowest ever level since the recording commenced in the 1940s. Official figures are suggesting that the smoking prevalence among older than 18 years old users decreased from 19.8% back in 2012 to 18.7% ...
Tags: Smoking Rate, Consumer Electronics
Northern Ireland is planning to introduce Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol, in order to reduce the harmful effects caused by alcohol consumption. The move is based on a research conducted by the University of Sheffield, and ...
Tags: Alcohol, harmful effects, Agriculture
Austria-based packaging company Greiner Packaging has commenced operations of its first US manufacturing facility in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. Having hired 36 people initially, the company plans to increase the number to 200 ...
Total search volumes for home and garden grew by 15% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, reports the BRC. Search volumes on smartphones outpaced search volumes on tablets, with growth of 41% compared ...
Tags: Housing Market, Garden Searches
The premises in Belfast and Co. Waterford see the long established supplier of used, refurbished and new equipment position itself firmly at the heart of the major food industry growth. BOYD now has offices in Scotland, Northern Ireland and ...
Tags: Food Machinery, used machinery
Footfall in July was 0.6% lower than a year ago, up on the 0.7% fall in June. High streets reported the largest decline, falling 1.7%, consistent with the decline in June, while shopping centres experienced a 0.5% decline in footfall, up on ...
Tags: Footfall, Furniture, Furnishing
This represents an increase of 3.2% compared with 2012 (8.1bn), and a decrease of 32% compared with 2006 (12.2bn), when reporting began. The number of thin-gauge (single-use) bags used per month by supermarket customers increased from ...
Tags: Carrier Bag Usage, re-usable bags, bags