2 Sisters Food Group is closing its Smethwick poultry plant in the West Midlands, UK, which will result in the loss of several jobs. The 2 Sisters Food Group, which is owned by food tycoon Ranjit Boparan, revealed that the poultry factory ...
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2 Sisters Food Group is planning to close its Smethwick poultry processing facility in the West Midlands, which could impact 630 jobs. The ageing poultry factory located at Bevan Way in the Alpha Business Park has considerable challenges ...
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St Merryn Foods, a subsidiary of The 2 Sisters Food Group, is mulling to shut down its retail packing operations at its Merthyr Tydfil meat processing site in the UK. The closure is expected to affect around 350 out of a total workforce ...
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Turkey producer Bernard Matthews and ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) have struck a deal to create the latter’s first licensed frozen turkey products in the UK under the Thunderbirds Are Go brand. Set to be launched at ...
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2 Sisters Food Group is reportedly negotiating to sell its Fox's Biscuits unit to Burton's Biscuits, which is owned by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The sale, which is being advised by Rothschild could bring the valuation of 2 Sisters ...
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2 Sisters Food Group has purchased the former S&A Foods site, just days after it had entered into discussions to acquire the East Midlands site that was owned by the Indian snack maker S&A, which fell into administration in October. 2 ...
2 Sisters Food Group plans to invest £150m into its poultry unit, an announcement that comes a few days after the Birmingham-based company stated that it intends to invest £55m into its ready meals business. The investment ...
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The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
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We all need to eat – and that means we all need food packaging, with most of us handling some form of food pack several times every day. Whether it’s the cereal box at breakfast, the sandwich packet at lunch, perhaps a snack in ...
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UK-based salads and sandwiches manufacturers Solway Foods will close its Corby factory in Northamptonshire with the loss of 900 jobs. Last week, the company had made 500 jobs redundant, and said that the remaining 400 would be laid-off ...
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Cavaghan & Gray, owned by UK-based 2 Sisters Food, has outlined plans to expand its ready meals production facility at Riverbank, Carlise, Cumbria. The expansion follows the company securing a new ready-to-cook fish meals supply contract. ...
UK-based 2 Sisters Food Group has posted an operating profit of £25.5m ($41.6m) for the 13 weeks ended 26 October 2013 (Q1 2013/14), compared to £30.5m for the same period last year. Total like-for-like (LFL) sales increased ...
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2 Sisters Food Group acquired the Rogerstone Park production facility in Leicester at the end of 2011. Now producing a range of products for the Group’s Chilled, Ambient and Frozen division, Rogerstone Park remains one of the largest ...
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Poultry suppliers to 2 Sisters Food Group’s Coupar Angus plant – slated for closure with the loss of 200 jobs – had received conflicting investment messages, according to the Scottish government. Speaking after meeting ...
2 Sisters’ plan to axe 200 jobs at its Coupar Angus chicken processing plant in Perth and Kinross would be “absolutely devastating”, warns the Unite union. News of 2 Sisters' 200 job cuts was received with disbelief and ...
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