Renewed calls for the government to give the supermarket watchdog sharp teeth came today(November 19)from anti-poverty agency ActionAid,as the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill enters its second reading in the House of Commons. It urged the ...
Tesco announced a£16M(€20M)contract with the Irish Dairy Board(IDB)last week(November 14)to supply Irish butter to Tesco stores throughout Europe. The butter will be produced in Ireland,packaged in Germany and supplied to Tesco ...
Tags: IDB, Tesco, Irish Dairy Board
The latest batch of reports from the just-food research store includes a look at sustainability strategies, analysis of Europe's dairy industry and a focus on global snacking. SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability in the Global Food and ...
Tags: dairy, sustainability, snacking, food, beverage, cheese, ready meals
The minister for employment,Mark Hoban,is meeting the food manufacturing industry's top players today(November 12)–including Mars,Cranswick and Associated British Foods(ABF)–to offer them cash incentives for employing young ...
Tags: ABF, cash incentive, youth unemployment, Mars
Britain's food and drink manufacturers are bracing themselves for difficult Christmas trading,according to the Food and Drink Federation(FDF). Speaking after the FDF's latest business confidence survey,FDF's economic and commercial ...
Tags: Business confidence, Business Leaders Forum, FDF, CBI
The Confederation of British Industry(CBI)has highlighted food manufacturing and agriculture as one of seven key"champion sectors"for growth,urging the government to develop a"coherent industrial strategy to boost exports". Agri-food ...
Lassonde Industries Inc.(TSX:LAS.A)(Lassonde)posted sales of$255.1 million in the third quarter of 2012,a 21.0%increase year over year.Profit attributable to the Company's shareholders for this period totalled$10.3 million,up$2.1 million ...
Tags: Lassonde, fruit juice, fruit drink, financial results
British multinational grocery Tesco is revamping its meat,fish and poultry range,by launching new packaging,in-store signage and enhanced products within the line. The store has increased the meat content in its burgers and sausages from ...
Tags: packaging, enhanced products, staff
Outlast Technologies, market leader for temperature regulating phase change materials (PCMs), that utilizes the recently launched world's first PCM polyester fiber. "This is another milestone for us and we are proud of this new, high ...
Tags: PCM, polyester fiber, THG, textile
Unilever is launching a consumer challenge to UK families to help them tackle food waste Dubbed 'The Sustain Ability Challenge', the six-month "live social experiment" will feature 12 families reducing their monthly food bills by 15% ...
Tags: food waste, food going off quickly, throwing away leftovers
Following the news last week that Premier plc sold its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Mizkan,just-food caught up with the Japanese firm's Euro-Americas president Craig Smith to discuss its plans for the brand.Elsewhere,word ...
Tags: Mizkan, Premier plc, fat taxes, consumer foods
Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
Tags: Microsoft, Ex-BT, Computing, IT industry, cloud, Cohrane
The campaign is called 'Little Taste Testers'. It is a Facebook game inviting consumers to have fun in guessing the foods and drinks children describe through their blind tasting. According to Feve, as products are packed in glass, they ...
Tags: Facebook game, guessing, food, drinks, blind tasting, glass, packed
This week, just-food attended the SIAL food and drink exhibition in Paris where the team caught up food manufacturers including Genius Foods, Dare Foods, The Irish Dairy Board, as well as the Irish Prime Minister. Outside of Paris, the UK ...
Tags: dairy, food, gluten-free, biscuits
Currently,as you read this blog,there is an area of plastic trash floating over the Pacific ocean the size of Texas.If that is not enough to shake you,consider all the floating plastics that will add to this on its way from Japan after the ...
Tags: plastic trash, bioplastics, renewable sources, protect enviroment