Posted 15 June 2018
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Posted 14 February 2018
Posted 2 January 2018
“I’m waiting for the day when I can win a game of Scrabble against my partner”
Director of UPM Conveyors Roy Fowler on the royal family, rudeness and running a garden centre.
Posted 21 November 2017
“Women’s sport is definitely one to watch right now”
Chief executive of the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) John Hyman talks Brexit, B corporations and bicycles.
Posted 13 October 2017
“I always aspired to be a professional sportsman. I soon realised there are easier ways to earn a living though”
As the UK Flavour Association celebrates its centenary this year, we caught up with deputy chair James Smith, who is also managing director of Kalsec Europe, to discuss flavour developments, trends and technologies to watch.
Posted 11 September 2017
“I once ran in a 10k road race with Sir Mo Farah – I like to think that he saw me as a threat”
Sean Negus has recently been appointed head of operations for ambient at UK logistics company Fowler Welch, based at the company’s ambient national distribution centre in Heywood. Here, he discusses why agility and responsiveness in logistics and supply chain is going to be critical as online, convenience and foodservice sectors grow.
Posted 21 August 2017
“Food manufacturing will get a lot more efficient and faster over the next 12 months”
This year marks Tna’s 35th anniversary. Having started with a single product back in 1982, the company is now a global solutions provider with more than 500 staff and operations across the world. Here, we talk to Tna’s newly appointed group product manager – processing, Carel Pfaff.
Posted 19 June 2017
“Anyone can be successful if they work hard enough”
The PFF Packaging Group, which was established in 1993, employs a total of 240 people and is the UK’s largest independent producer of thermoformed plastic food packaging. Here, managing director Andy Bairstow predicts that owner managed companies are the ones to watch as they are able to react more quickly and more flexibly to customers’ needs.
Posted 6 April 2017
“Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive”
Managing director of National Flexible George Slack has been with the company for more than 20 years. Here, he predicts that more UK grown and produced food will be eaten as a result of Brexit.
Posted 4 March 2017
“I’m very philosophical and spiritual”
Sam Benjamin began his career as a trainee chef at Addo Food Group’s Riverside Bakery before being promoted to retail account manager. Now brand manager of the Too Good To Be… range of gluten-free sweet and savoury pastry products, formerly known as No.G, his potential in the industry saw him scoop the Rising Star accolade at the 2016 Food and Drink Federation Awards.
Posted 6 February 2017
“Expanding waist lines are a big threat to the quality of life the sunshine would bring”
David Wolf, an experienced food safety expert with many years’ experience as a lead BRC auditor and as a second party auditor for major UK food retailers is the new EU technical manager for certification body Cert ID. Here, he discusses middle lane drivers, coal barbeques and the late Terry Pratchett.
Posted 24 January 2017
“Hopefully health claims will be banned and the marketeers banished from the industry”
In 2011, Andrew Tickle couldn’t decide what to do with a grass field. With little crop growing experience and very limited knowledge of specialist products, he stumbled upon aronia berries and his business Tickleberries was born. The first grower in England to establish a commercial aronia berry plantation, here, he explains why the banks are the ones to watch post Brexit.
Posted 7 December 2016
“I am the 13th generation of ‘Booths’ within the food industry”
Earlier this year, the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology appointed Ian Booth, quality director UK and Ireland at supply chain management specialist Martin Brower, as its new chair. Here, he ponders the UK food industry in a post brexit world.
Posted 27 October 2016
“I truly love my job”
Jobien Laurijssen, sustainability manager at SVZ, explains why companies that have embedded sustainability deeply into their commercial strategies will be the ones to succeed.
Posted 27 September 2016
“Share the load when you’re struggling, but never give up”
We speak to Duncan Goose, founder and managing director of life changing bottled water brand One Water, which is celebrating raising over £14 million for water projects; providing clean, safe water to over three million people in the world’s poorest communities.
Posted 16 August 2016
Stuart Simm
Saica Pack’s national development centre manager Stuart Simm talks paper, design and the great outdoors
Posted 17 June 2016