The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has approved a takeover of the Vion UK's poultry business by 2 Sisters Food, following an extensive review of the transaction. The OFT fully reviewed the transaction, including the combination of the ...
Tags: Poultry Business, Agriculture
Meat products firm Gilbert's Foods plans to invest millions in its supply chain after securing £2.4M worth of finance from HSBC. Gilbert's Foods supplies products designed for re-heating via microwave, oven, boil-in-the-bag, grill ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The wild dog hunters can’t keep up. A bullet to the head or heart brings $500 per dog — but it doesn’t matter. Tens of thousands of wild dogs are breeding faster than the hunters can track and shoot. Weighing in at up to ...
Paragon Quality Foods – the food manufacturer formerly at the centre of a row about pork in halal lamb burgers – has reported a 20% increase in turnover for the year ended February 28 2013. Paragon Quality Foods posted a ...
Tags: Food contamination, Paragon Quality Foods, Horsemeat crisis
Sainsbury reports first quarter trading statement for 12 weeks to 8 June 2013. Highlights: -Total sales for first quarter up 3.6 per cent (3.3 per cent excluding fuel) -Like-for-like sales for first quarter up 0.7 per cent (0.8 per ...
Dunbia's new £12M Llanybydder factory in Wales will help Sainsbury's plans to boost sales of British food, according to Justin King, ceo of the supermarket chain. Dunbia processes a range of red meats, including lamb "The new ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Iceland Foods has big plans for its processing arm and exports that will put reports of falling annual profits and weak sales growth into perspective, according to one director. The discount frozen food chain bought manufacturer Loxton ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Dalehead Foods is a major supplier of British pork and lamb to Waitrose. Waitrose and Dalehead have unveiled a new Moroccan lamb and a Carolina pork themed selection, with accompanying dips. In a statement, Staeger said: "The pack had ...
US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has developed a new method to detect horse DNA in meat samples. AB SCIEX noted that this development is in response to recent reports that horse and pig DNA had been identified in beef ...
Linden Foods plans to invest £5m to expand operations at its meat processing facility in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK, creating 179 new jobs. A majority of the new positions created by the expansion will be in ...
Tags: Meat Processing, Linden Foods
(Left to right): Orbis Partners partner James Grenfell, Abacus finance director Steve Banks, Abacus managing director Steve Lamb and Orbis Partners director Toby Arrowsmith Abacus Lighting has been sold to a group of industrialists and ...
Tags: Abacus Lighting, Lighting
UK-based retailer Waitrose has revamped the packaging of all the 49 products in its Menu prepared meals range, as part of its efforts to cut its packaging in half by 2016. The width of the sleeves on the outside of the products has been ...
Tags: Waitrose, Food Products
UK-based retailer Waitrose has announced a target to cut its packaging in half by 2016 and also changes to its product ranges that will help achieve the target, saving nearly 100t of packaging annually. Waitrose launched its menu from ...
Tags: Waitrose, Food Packaging
The UK’s largest poultry processor Moy Park has announced a strong recovery in trading performance for last year, with pre-profits up to 24.4M for 2012 for 2012, compared with 4.8M in 2011. Moy Park delivered a strong performance in ...
The Puppet Company will launch two brand new collections of Marionettes this year. Two years in the making, the new range of Character Marionettes have already been met with good response. With the incorporation of an anti tangle device ...