Morrisons takes over free range eggs supplier
Morrisons has acquired free range eggs manufacturer Chippindale Foods, bringing forward the date at which all its eggs will come from non-caged hens, which currently stands at 2025. The addition of the Chippindale Foods business is expected to enable Morrisons to work...
Kerry Group reports strong volume in 2017
Kerry Group has enjoyed a buoyant year, with preliminary results for the year ending 31st December revealing group revenue of €6.4 billion. The overall 4.3% business volume growth year-on-year was offset, according to the group, by adverse currency movements,...
Russell Hume goes into administration
Meat supplier Russell Hume has gone into administration, with this news following the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) recent hygiene investigation into the company. Headquartered in Derby and operating from six production sites in Liverpool, Birmingham, London,...
Government warned over post-Brexit food tariffs
Defra and trade organisations have been urged to provide “detailed sector analysis on the impact of tariffs on the UK’s agricultural sectors”. In its report on Brexit’s impact on the food trade, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has warned that...
Groceries Code Adjudicator remit not to be extended
Defra has announced that there was “not enough evidence” to support extending the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) to include primary producers. Instead, the Government has announced a ‘collaboration fund’ of up to £10 million, as part of a series of...
