All news articles for August 2018

Probiotics are waking up old categories across grocery aisles

Probiotics are waking up old categories across grocery aisles

By Mary Ellen Shoup

Consumers may not always be on the lookout for food products fortified with probiotics (outside of a yogurt purchase), but that hasn’t stopped manufacturers from developing new items that contain these living and active culture strains including oatmeal,...

Small brands ‘pushing the boundaries of manufacturing’

Guest Article

Small brands ‘pushing the boundaries of manufacturing’

By Chris Green, co-founder, Young Foodies

Chris Green is co-founder of Young Foodies, a community of the UK’s FMCG challenger brands. Young Foodies was launched just 12 months ago and already has 250 food and drink businesses on board. In this guest article, Green shares his thoughts on what...

Sugar content of food is a growing concern for consumers in the UK ©iStock/karandaev

Sugar replaces price as consumers’ top food worry

By Katy Askew

The amount of sugar contained in food has risen up the consumer agenda and replaced price as consumers’ biggest food concern, research from the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) reveals.

Vulnerable supply chains are under scrutiny ©iStock

Guest Article

Keeping goods good: Managing risks from unethical work practices

By Andy Green, Certification Sales Manager at Exova BM TRADA

Customers can be quick to condemn a brand when it is associated with unethical labour, health and safety, environmental or business practices. Organisations have to guard their corporate social responsibility aspirations vigilantly, turning their gaze...

Coveris to increase capacity by 20%

Coveris to increase capacity by 20%

By Aidan Fortune

Packaging provider Coveris has unveiled a £1m investment plan at its linerless labels facility in Spalding, England, which will see it increase capacity by over 20% in order to meet growing demand for the sustainable pack format.

Doherty gives details about how the no-deal Brexit might affect the meat industry

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What a no-deal Brexit might mean for the meat industry?

By Ashley Williams

Brexit has loomed over the UK meat industry, as well as EU countries, for a number of months, with meat processors and farmers being left in the dark about what the future might hold.

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