Chilled Foods

Vale of Mowbray site and machinery sold

09-Mar-2023 By Michelle Perrett

The former site and machinery used by Yorkshire-based pie maker Vale of Mowbray has been sold out of administration.

Contractors appointed to build one of the UK’s largest pasta facilities

05-Dec-2022 By Gwen Ridler

Pasta Evangelists has appointed national construction company Clegg Food Projects as principal contractor to deliver what it claims to be as the ‘UK’s largest’ pasta manufacturing facility.

Simply Lunch cuts beef from the menu to curb greenhouse gases

19-Apr-2022 By Gwen Ridler

Sandwich manufacturer Simply lunch is to cut beef from its entire menu in an effort to curb the amount of greenhouse gases in its supply chain.

XPO Logistics awarded Tesco chilled foods contract

04-Apr-2022 By Gwen Ridler

XPO Logistics has been awarded a multi-year contract by supermarket giant Tesco to manage its chilled distribution to stores in the northwest of the UK.

Double award win for Charlie Bigham’s

24-Mar-2022 By Gwen Ridler

The Food Manufacture Excellence Awards help highlight the achievements of the food and drink industry and ‘acknowledge and reward’ the hard work companies do to keep the nation fed, according to Charlie Bigham’s general manager Richard Bain.

Greencore employees seek legal action after cyber attack

16-Mar-2022 By Gwen Ridler

Present and former Greencore employees are deciding on whether to pursue legal action against the manufacturer, after it was hit by a data breach in December last year.

EVCL Chill enters administration placing jobs at risk

27-Sep-2021 By Gwen Ridler

Chilled food logistics business EVCL Chill Ltd – including EVCL One, EVCL Two and EVCL Three – has entered into administration after struggling with challenges created by the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver shortage, placing more than 400 jobs at risk.

COVID-19 has strengthened Greencore, analysts claim

05-Oct-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Greencore is ‘quicker, leaner and stronger’ despite taking an operational hit of £10m in responding to COVID-19, according to analysts at Shore Capital.

Greencore confirms 292 COVID-19 cases at Northampton factory

14-Aug-2020 By Gwen Ridler

A total of 292 people have tested positive for coronavirus at Greencore’s Northampton manufacturing site.

Greencore in trade union row over agency workers

06-Aug-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Prepared foods manufacturer Greencore is in dispute with the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) for hiring agency staff to meet demand while lower paid employees remain on furlough.

Kerry Foods CEO joins Noble Foods

06-Jul-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Kerry Foods chief executive Duncan Everett has left the chilled foods manufacturer to head up egg processor Noble Foods.

Kerry Foods appoints new chief executive

03-Jul-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Chilled food manufacturer Kerry Foods has promoted Nick Robinson to the role of chief executive from his current position as managing director of consumer brands.

Union raises concern over Greencore coronavirus case

04-May-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Members of the Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) at Greencore’s Northampton factory have raised concerns after a member of staff working at the site tested positive for COVID-19.

Urgent call to put employees over profit during pandemic

15-Apr-2020 By Gwen Ridler

Coronavirus' threat to food industry workers has triggered one trade union to press the six top grocery retailers put staff before profit, accusing a major supplier of foregoing social distancing guidance and scrimping on pay.

Samworth reveals moves to boost profits

27-Sep-2019 By Dan Colombini

Chilled foods manufacturer Samworth brothers has highlighted new measures to instigate a return to profitability for the firm.

Food Standards Agency issues listeria and hygiene warnings

16-Sep-2019 By Rod Addy

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued two alerts warning of potential listeria contamination and a processor supplying products “that have not been produced in accordance with food hygiene and legislative requirements".

Bakkavor Meals Wigan completes training for 21 apprentices

30-Jul-2019 By Helen Gilbert

A further 21 apprentices have successfully completed prepared foods maker Bakkavor’s apprenticeship programme at its Wigan site, bringing the total to 78.

Brewer offers help as hundreds of Kerry jobs go

26-Jun-2019 By Rod Addy

Molson Coors has offered a lifeline to the 900 workers set to lose their jobs at Kerry Foods’ Burton-Upon-Trent ready meals factory as it prepares to close at the end of August.

Label change to boost chilled foods sales

27-Feb-2012

Chilled foods look set to receive a further boost in sales following Sainsbury's decision last month to change its labelling to advise shoppers they can freeze many foods right up until the 'use by' date. Sainsbury's move is likely...

Key Note says the only way is up for chilled foods

11-Jul-2011 By Graham Holter

The UK market for chilled foods will continue to grow steadily, despite cost pressures and rising unemployment, according to a new report.

Research on extending shelf-life endangered

26-Nov-2007

A research project to double the shelf-life of chilled foods and save the industry millions of pounds in waste is in danger because of fears over...

Shelf-life recommendations for chilled foods take heat out of argument

12-Jun-2006 By Rick Pendrous

Chilled ready meals producers heaved a sigh of relief last week as a key committee agreed to recommend that government imposes a 10-day shelf-life on...