Hornby is attempting to make the business profitable again following a loss of £13.5 million in what it has said was a "difficult and disappointing year". Hornby has revealed its plans to cut the number of toys it makes in an effort ...
Tags: pre-tax loss, Hornby
ShangPin, China’s leading online business-to-consumer (B2C) fashion retailer and lifestyle platform, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) to ...
Tags: B2C fashion retailer, Apparel
Double and triple digit rises in searches for UK retailers from key export markets. Helen Dickinson, Director General, British Retail Consortium, said: “The UK is the world’s second biggest online retail exporter, beaten ...
Tags: UK Retailers, Apparel
GlaxoSmithKline’s sale of Lucozade and Ribena for £1.35bn earlier this month was the latest in a long line of iconic British brand sales topped by Cadbury. GlaxoSmithKline's sale of its drinks brands was the latest in a long ...
Tags: Timeline Tracks, Food Brands
2 Sisters Food Group, and PepsiCo are among the trade buyers that could snap up Burton's Biscuits, although the deal could easily go to a private equity house, according to analysts. Burton's makes Cadbury-branded biscuits under licence ...
Vyse, who is the UK director of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP, has many years experience in the packaging industry and has spent the last eight years providing interim packaging project management for some well known UK ...
Food firm Kerry Group has posted promising half yearly figures despite UK brands flat-lining in spreads and frozen food as a result of heavy promotions and the horsemeat effect. While the firm’s Richmond sausages, Wall’s ...
Tags: Kerry Food
DeSL, a world leading provider of PLM solutions to the global fashion industry, showcased their product suite to leading UK brands at a recent event held at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery, London. During the highly attended seminar of ...
Tags: PLM Solution, UK Brands
A team from AkzoNobel visited Northumberland College in Ashington to celebrate a new mural, painted as part of the Let’s Colour initiative run by the global paints and coatings company, in association with Groundwork North East. ...
As data volumes grow, virtualising the infrastructure helps a business streamline its processes, reduce its hardware footprint and manage costs. But without an apt data backup and recovery strategy, a virtual environment can’t be ...
Tags: Computer Products, Virtualisation, recovery tool, data woes
Hain Celestial has today (22 August) been announced as the buyer of Premier Foods plc's spreads assets, including brands such as Hartley's jam and Sun-Pat peanut butter. The US food group had been linked to Premier's spreads business, ...
Tags: Hain Celestial, Premier Foods plc, peanut butter, food industry
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
UK dairy group Dairy Crest said this morning (17 July) its full-year expectations remained "unchanged" despite a "challenging" first-quarter. In its interim management statement, released ahead of today's AGM, Dairy Crest said its dairies ...
Tags: UK dairy, broad-based dairy, UK brands
TerraCycle celebrated a new milestone, after the company’s recycling fundraising Brigade programs hit the 10 million mark in terms of the number of pieces of waste packaging saved from UK landfill. Launched in the UK in 2009, ...
UK companies including Ocado, Carlsberg, Nestlé Waters, PLB Group and Typhoo have signed up to the Courtauld Commitment, taking the total number of major UK brands, suppliers and retailers to 53 signatories. The voluntary ...
Tags: Firms Pledge, packaging waste, traditional grocery product