My three-year-old niece has an iPad. Ok, so it’s the family iPad, but she uses it frequently. As do her parents and her 12-year-old brother. Although they like the idea of kids’ tablets, for whatever reason her parents ...
Sales growth lower than 2011; Toys suffer at the hands of electronic goods and tablets, says BRC. This December UK retail sales were up only 0.3 per cent like-for-like, versus a 2.2 per cent like-for-like growth in December 2011. Total ...
Tags: Toy Sales, Christmas, Toys, Online shopping
Who: Aimia Foods Aim: The family-owned business needed to invest in its three sites in Haydock, North West England, and maintain its high standard of manufacturing products in the dry powder sector Spend: Undisclosed What: A new ...
Tags: Aimia Foods, manufacturing, powder, packing line, packaging
The latest research from KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) shows online shopping is still growing, despite a slowdown in the industry overall. Figures from the annual sales monitor study by the two organisations, published ...
Tags: Computer Products, Online Sales, UK Retail
Quinn Glass Elton is delighted to announce they have gained an "A" grade from a recent audit carried out on behalf of the BRC against the standard for which specifies the safety, quality and operational criteria required within packaging ...
Tags: Quinn Glass Elton, Construction, David Pipe
A string of retail giants have announced that shoppers can bring back thin plastic packaging such as bread bags for recycling at their stores as a result of an agreement with the On Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme The On-Pack Recycling ...
Tags: plastic packaging, packaging, bag recycle
Beverages company Coca-Cola is adopting the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC’s) On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL), in a bid to lessen the proportion of plastic drinks bottles going to landfill. Through the OPRL system, Coke will ...
UK-based retailer The Co-operative Food has introduced recyclable packaging for its own-brand onion range in a bid to step up its efforts to divert the majority of its operational waste from landfill. According to the retailer, producing ...
Tags: UK, recyclable packaging, onion range
Sabra Dipping Co., the dips venture run by PepsiCo and Israeli food group Strauss, is to set up an R&D facility in the US. The company is spending US$28m on a facility in Chesterfield County in Virginia. Strauss decided to run its US ...
Tags: PepsiCo, food group, food manufacturing, food industry
The UK's new grocery industry watchdog will have the power to fine supermarkets who deal "unfairly" with suppliers, the country's government announced today (4 December). The Grocery Code Adjudicator is being established following a 2008 ...
The UK government said today (10 July) there needs to be "a culture change" in the food industry to ensure the country can produce food sustainably amid "soaring" population growth. UK farming minister Jim Paice called on all in the ...
Tags: culture change, food industry, food, farming
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
Tags: Salt, foods, retailers, salt content
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
Tags: salt reduction, salt in foods, Public Health
UK-based food inspection specialist S+S Inspection has harnessed the power of neodymium magnets to offer an easy to implement method of removing metal contaminants from liquid and paste product manufacturing lines. LIQUIMAG ...
Tags: Innovation, Plant Safety, Equipment
Detectamet is rolling out a host of detectable accessories for food and drink manufacturers, from tote bin liners to ear plugs and hygienic gloves. The company told FoodProductionDaily that increased international adoption of British ...
Tags: nitrile, British Retail Consortium, BRC, Detectamet, recalls, contamination