Seafood giants team up to create €300m business
Sykes Seafood and Klaas Puul have joined forces to create a €300m (£267.3m) pan-European seafood business. The business will specialise in all species of shrimp and will offer customers across Europe a wide range of high-quality products in chilled and frozen formats...
March sees record grocery sales as shoppers stock up for lockdown
Supermarkets have recorded the biggest month of grocery sales ever in March as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest market share figures from Kantar. The figures show year-on-year supermarket sales grew by the fastest rate in over a...
2 Sisters CEO says “help us feed the nation”
Ronald Kers, CEO of 2 Sisters Food Group, has called for new workers as the company deals with the demand brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company, which is one of the largest food processors in Europe, launched its first-ever nationwide recruitment campaign...
Eustice pays tribute to food workers
Defra secretary, George Eustice, has published an open letter to acknowledge the work of food processors across the country that are continuing to feed the nation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The letter reads: "To those working hard to feed the nation. "In the face...
Food behind two thirds of all European product recalls
New research from recall specialists Stericycle Expert Solutions has found an overall rise of six per cent in the number of items recalled by key industries across Europe in 2019, with food and drink products responsible for two thirds of the overall total. The...
