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Young’s Seafood targets younger audience with new packaging

Feb 13, 2020

Young’s Seafood has built on its multi-million pound ‘Master’s of Fish’ advertising campaign by unveiling a new packaging creative which is designed to target a younger audience. This redesign represents further investment into the Young’s brand for 2020 and will be...

New foodservice procurement business launched

Feb 13, 2020

Caterforce managing director, Nick Redford and Sodexo director, Warren Hamer, have teamed up to launch Artere Procurement Solutions. The pair worked together at Makro before going their separate ways prior to the Booker takeover in 2013. Warren worked at Iceland and...

Kettle Foods celebrates national apprenticeship week by supporting record number of apprentices

Feb 13, 2020

Kettle Foods celebrated National Apprenticeship Week by supporting 21 employees as part of its apprenticeship programme – the highest number since the introduction of the scheme back in 2017. The company committed to supporting a record number of employees this year...

Marks and Spencer announces Eoin Tonge as chief financial officer

Feb 12, 2020

Former Greencore director, Eoin Tonge, will be joining the board of Marks and Spencer as chief financial officer in June. Tonge replaces Humphrey Singer, who left M&S last September after the company was demoted from the FTSE 100. Formerly the chief strategy...

Westminster food conference includes top line up

Feb 12, 2020

Henry Dimbleby of the National Food Strategy will lead the speaker line-up at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum policy conference in July to outline a new food strategy for England. The speakers will also include Stefano Agostino, CEO of Nestlé , the...

GLOBAL G.A.P aims to simply IFA standard

Feb 12, 2020

GLOBAL G.A.P, the global agricultural standards organisation, will host a number of conferences around the world in an effort to plans to simplify its Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) standard. The events will be part of the ‘World Consultation Tour’ and will take...

PizzaExpress announces new retail and product director

Feb 12, 2020

PizzaExpress has added to its UK and Irish leadership team by announcing Christian Haas as its new retail and product director. Leading a newly formed team, the pizzeria says Haas’ role has been created to bring additional cross-departmental synergies across product...