Britain's food industry was rocked by two announcements over the past month.Premier Foods broke the news that it was to close bakeries in Birmingham and Greenford,west London and restructure its distribution operations with the loss of 900 ...
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A management buyout is the"most likely"result of Vion's dramatic exit from the UK's meat processing market,according to City analysts. Investec Securities analyst Nicola Mallard told FoodManufacture.co.uk:"A management buyout is the most ...
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A management buyout is the"most likely"result of Vion's dramatic exit from the UK's meat processing market,according to City analysts. Investec Securities analyst Nicola Mallard told FoodManufacture.co.uk:"A management buyout is the most ...
Tags: buyout, meat processing market, Vion
Sri Lanka's Keells Food Products is planning to buy meat processing firm D&W Foods for LKR700m ($5.24m) and upgrade manufacturing facilities. The acquisition includes D&W Foods' production facility at Makundara Industrial Estate West, ...
US-based pork processor Smithfield Foods is set to initiate its previously announced closure of its meat facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, which produces deli meat and hot dogs. The company noted that the layoffs will first begin in ...
2 Sisters Food Group,an England-based chicken meat processing company,has added Superiore pizza range to its Goodfella's pizza portfolio in the UK. The company said that the Superiore pizza range follows the success of the Flatbread ...
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UK-based Linpac Packaging has announced that the company's site in Bukowice, Poland will supply more than 100 million polystyrene trays a year to Polish meat processing company Pini Polonia, as part of a contract. Working in partnership ...
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Russia meat producer Cherkizovo has booked an increase in nine-months earnings but warned of a"risk of pressure on pork prices"going into the fourth quarter. In the nine months to the end of September,net income grew 51%to US$158.7m,while ...
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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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The Minister for Agriculture,Food and the Marine,Simon Coveney T.D.has announced the creation of 100 jobs as a result of on-going innovation,growth and investment at Kepak's Consumer Food facility in Watergrasshill,Co Cork.This expansion is ...
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Beef producer Australian Agricultural Company(AACo)plans to set up an A$85m($88.23m)meat processing facility near Darwin,Northern Territory,Australia. The facility will be built as a hot boning facility and will have a flexibility to ...
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Dale T Smith and Sons Meat Packing,a meat processing firm based in Utah,US,is recalling 38,200lbs of beef products due to possible contamination with E coli O157:H7,according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection ...
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Russian meat processor Cherkizovo has provided a mixed update on its first-half sales volumes. The London-listed firm said today (2 August) volumes from its poultry division, the company's largest business, rose 34% in the first half ...
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Tasmanian Bakeries,a bakery based in Tasmania,Australia,has announced an expansion plan which will boost its production by 80%over the next two years and create 22 new jobs. The expansion will allow Tasmanian Bakeries to launch its ...
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The proposed $4.7 billion sale of Smithfield Foods, America's largest pork producer, to China's biggest meat processing company comes amid significant trade friction between the two countries over meat and livestock. China bans ...
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