Meat firm Kettyle Irish Foods has won a £1.2M contract to export bacon to Albert Heijn, a leading European food retailer based in the Netherlands. In addition to bacon, the County Fermanagh-based firm produces dry aged beef, lamb, ...
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Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs,according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30. Reported ...
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Gainco, a US-based manufacturer of yield management, packing and distribution systems for meat and poultry processors, has signed a distribution agreement with Viking Masek Global Packaging Technologies – a manufacturer of vertical ...
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In conjunction with America Recycles Day on Nov.15,Weis Markets has announced a store-wide commitment to use 100 percent recyclable modified atmosphere packaging(MAP)meat trays for its fresh meat products.Weis has partnered exclusively with ...
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British beef and lamb will return to Russian dinner plates after Russian authorities finally said yes to exports after agreeing to lift their 16-year ban. Russia banned British beef imports in the wake of the 1996 Bovine Spongiform ...
This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries, while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses - raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees. Here, we capture a flavour of ...
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US-based restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse has introduced new topped steaks paired with seafood, just in time for the holiday season. The holiday menu features Shrimp Topped Victoria's Filet with grilled lobster and Crab Topped Sirloin. ...
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This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries,while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses?raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees.Here,we capture a flavour of the ...
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Dutch food giant Vion's plans to sell its UK food businesses throwing into doubt the future of its 13,000 UK employees was"almost an inevitability,"according to leading City analysts. Julian Wild,food group director at legal firm ...
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US food group Hormel Foods saw its profits accelerate in the final quarter of its financial year amid stronger earnings from its grocery products business. Hormel, which makes Spam canned meat, booked a 13% increase in net earnings to ...
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Meat company Cranswick is conducting"unprecedented"negotiations with retailers,as pig feed prices continue to rise,according to City analyst Panmure Gordon. In a note on the firm's interim results–due to be published on Monday ...
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British poultry processors are missing a trick by paying for disposal of chicken feet,which could be exported to China where retailers such as Tesco are struggling to meet demand. So wrote environment secretary Owen Paterson in his online ...
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Uncertainty surrounds the future of 13,000 food manufacturing jobs today(November 19),as Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion announced plans to sell its UK food businesses to concentrate on what it describes as"core markets"in the ...
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New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms has booked a loss in the year to the end of September as higher lamb prices hit global demand. The company racked up a net operating loss of NZ$31.1m (US$25.4m) in the 12-month period, down ...
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US-based Black Earth Meat Market is recalling about 99 pounds of beef tongue products,as the tonsils may have not been completely removed. The recall was initiated as the products did not meet the standard that require the removal of ...
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