More than a decade ago, Hardee's and Carl's Jr. proved fast-food consumers can get a burger that rivals sit-down restaurant offerings with the introduction of their 100 percent Black Angus Beef Thickburgers? and Six Dollar Burgers. Now ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Consumers are continually changing the way they view, interact with and discard packaging. Whether you're a manufacturer or a product marketer, you know how important it is to reflect the changing needs of the consumer in your products. ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Consumer Packaging
The furore surrounding the horsemeat scandal seems to have settled for the time being. But let’s not forget an estimated 10M beef burgers, among other products, were removed from supermarket shelves across the country. Perhaps this ...
Tags: Product recalls, Eclipse, Food
Burger King has re-launched its 100% flame-grilled Aberdeen Angus Beef Collection at its restaurants across the UK. The Angus Collection features the following varieties: Angus Classic burger, Angus Smoked Bacon & Cheddar burger and Angus ...
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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 ...
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Ireland has announced plans to set up a new centralized equine database, in response to the Europe-wide horsemeat scandal. The information on the database will be used by the agriculture department's veterinary staff to supplement current ...
Tags: Centralized Equine Database, Food
The brand looks to capitalise on its ‘from farm to fork’ 100% Irish beef burgers and 100% chicken breast frozen products, with the relaunch rolling out last month. It has embarked on a complete re-brand. All of its packaging ...
Any new toy that wants to get its product into retail needs to appreciate that they will not be alone. Retail buyers are inundated with calls from start-ups, inventors and product designers, almost daily. To get noticed you really need a ...
Tags: Toy Retail, Toys, consumer demand
The boss of the world’s biggest food company Nestlé, Paul Bulcke has blamed the horsemeat scandal on a criminal minority, who threatened to undermine trust between consumers and the food industry. Nestlé boss Paul ...
Tags: Nestle, Paul Bulcke, horsemeat scandal
UK-based Burger Manufacturing Company (BMC) has initiated a recall of its beef burgers after testing showed that the three samples contained at least 1% horse meat, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The tests were carried out ...
Tags: BMC, beef burgers, Food
Birds Eye has pulled three beef ready meals from supermarkets in the UK and Ireland as a precaution after a product it sells in Belgium tested positive for horse DNA. The company said today (22 February) its 340g Traditional Spaghetti ...
Tags: Horsemeat, beef, Beef Lasagne
Morrisons’ bid to profit from the horse meat scandal will provide a ‘short-term bounce’ rather than a long-term turnaround, say City analysts. Morrisons' gain from the horse meat scandal is likely to be short-term: City ...
Three men have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of offences under the Fraud Act by police investigating allegations horsemeat was mislabelled as beef. Dyfed-Powys Police in Wales yesterday (14 February) made arrests at two plants that ...
Asda has recalled fresh sauce manufactured by private-label giant Greencore after finding horse DNA in the line - the first product outside the frozen aisle to become embroiled in the contamination scandal. Greencore has confirmed it ...
Tags: Asda, Horse DNA, Greencore Chilled Sauce
The UK's Food Standards Agency confirmed this morning (8 February) it is cooperating with European police authorities as it works to get to the bottom of the horse meat scandal. According to the FSA, the "significant amount of horse meat" ...
Tags: horse meat, Food, beef burgers