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Popularity of corrugated packaging
UK corrugated packaging companies have invested almost £500 million in new technology and plant over the last two years, in part to provide retailers and brand owners with effective on-pack communications to entice customers. The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) says significant capital outlay in state of the art digital printing equipment is enabling the […]
Chilled coffee market gathers NPD momentum
Ready to drink (RTD) or iced coffee has been seeing a period of strong product and market activity in recent years. It remains one of the smallest sectors of the soft drinks market in terms of new product activity, accounting for just over 4.2% of global launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in the 12 […]
FDF bids farewell to director general
The UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has announced that its director general Melanie Leech will be leaving in the new year after more than nine years to head up the British Property Federation. Leech, who has held the post since August 2005, says, “I have been privileged to lead FDF for the last nine years and […]
Investing in future generations
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has underlined its continued commitment to youth development with the launch of a new £810,000 Education Centre at its Milton Keynes site in the UK. The opening marks a total of £4 million invested by CCE in its national education programme since 2011 which to date has reached more than 300,000 young […]
UK brewery launches energy centre
A new energy centre has opened at Molson Coors’ brewery in Burton, UK as part of a five-year capital investment plan to modernise its brewing infrastructure and technology. Molson Coors says the new energy centre will support the business’ global ambition to cut energy consumption by 25% and 15% of its greenhouse gas emissions by […]
Machinery aplenty
Last week I travelled to Birmingham, UK to visit the PPMA Show, the UK’s largest processing and packaging machinery exhibition. Taking place 30 September-2 October at the NEC and promising more than 300 exhibitors and in excess of 8,000 visitors, I was in for a busy few days! The latest technology – from machinery, industrial […]
Industry-wide food waste campaign
A new initiative called Working on Waste has been launched, aiming to bring together food and grocery companies throughout October in a coordinated bid to help their employees reduce household food waste. Spearheaded by food and grocery research and training charity IGD, the campaign will use the scale of the industry collectively to talk directly […]
Tea deal
First Great Western and Tregothnan have announced a new partnership that will see one million bags of Cornwall’s Tregothnan tea brewed on First Great Western services in the UK over the next year. The deal will see the rail company become one of the plantation’s largest customers. By choosing the British-grown, blended and packed tea, […]
Government backs food and drink initiative
The UK government has announced support for a new partnership between employers and trade bodies to develop food and drink manufacturing skills in England. The new Industry Skills Partnership will bring together organisations from across the food and drink sector in a drive to boost skills and improve the quality and relevance of training. The […]
Princes aims to increase canned fish consumption
Princes is launching a new on-pack promotion in the UK aimed at increasing consumption of canned fish by demonstrating its simplicity and versatility. Favourite Fish Dish, which will feature on two million tuna four-packs, is a new recipe-inspired promotion that offers shoppers the chance to receive £5,000 in return for sharing their favourite canned fish […]
New course will fuel the food economy
The food and drink manufacturing industry has welcomed the first entrants onto the country’s first ever MEng Food Engineering degree programme, offered by Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The four-year master’s level course which began Monday 29 September has been developed for the industry by the industry and will create a pool of specialist […]
Show up or miss out
When I joined Food & Drink Technology back in July, I wrote in my first blog that I was pleased to be joining just ahead of ‘show season’ and looking forward to making contact with many of the magazine’s readers and contributors at the various exhibitions taking place before the end of the year. As […]
UK breakfast cereals market update
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Breakfast Cereals Market Update 2014 report to its offering. This market update examines the UK market for breakfast cereals. In the five-year review period analysed within this report, the market has grown on a year-on-year basis, with total value growing by 4.2% in 2013. This growth is spread […]
Aquabio secures contract with Dairy Crest
Aquabio has been awarded a £3.5 million contract for a wastewater treatment and water reuse plant at Dairy Crest’s Severnside Dairy in Gloucester, UK.