While Ole & Steen is looking for a new group CEO, it has also announced the new appointment of Graham Hollingshead as its UK MD. Meanwhile, Dr Harsh Amin has joined cultivated meat start-up Ivy Farm as its chief scientific officer.
Growing Kent & Medway has awarded a share of more than £1.6m to 13 businesses that will help address big sustainability challenges within the food and drink industry.
More than 7,800 exhibitors set up shop at Anuga earlier this month, with sustainable growth a key theme. FDEA’s Sandra Sullivan interviewed several UK producers to understand how they are balancing sustainability with profit.
Michelle Laithwaite, CEO and co-founder of Fuel Hub, tells Food Manufacture a little about herself and her role at the company in our latest 'All in a Day's Work'.
Insights are more than just data and need to play a bigger role at the start of new product development (NPD) and strategic business decisions, according to experts in the sector.
The Government needs to incentivise small firms to invest in tech adoption and innovation in order to kick-start economic growth, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Food Manufacture takes a closer look at start-ups specialising in cultivated meat, gut health and reduced sugar products as they seek to address emerging trends.
Not all leaders are entrepreneurs, however, the behaviours demonstrated by entrepreneurial leaders can be highly impactful. This month, ‘The Talent Poole’ explores entrepreneurial behaviours with Chris Kong, chief executive of Better Nature.
With pressures coming in left, right and centre, we bring you news of five food manufacturers partnering with five great charities to make things a bit brighter.
The recent string of high-profile closures in the meat alternatives market is not the end of a ‘fad’ but plant-based is reaching a mass tipping point where not every producer is going to make it, according to non-dairy cheese producer Julienne Bruno.
Despite retail trends showing a fall in demand for alternative proteins, global revenues are projected to surpass $290bn. Here we look at each market segment and the start-ups with big potential.
A team of five students from the University of Nottingham have been announced the winners of Ecotrophelia UK, taking home a grand prize of £2,000 and the opportunity to represent the UK in the nationals in Europe.
With rice’s shocking sustainability record, Nice Rice founder Fergus O’Sullivan leads the charge in developing a more environmentally friendly product with a lesser-known farming practice at its heart.
This year’s Butcher’s Shop awards ceremony was awash with innovation, community spirit and high-quality produce as it celebrated independent UK butchery, with McCaskie’s Butchers & Café taking home the grand prize.
Will Downey, Senior Business Development Manager at The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) in the UK discusses the nutritional benefits of new Australian products set to enter the UK market following the Free Trade Agreement.
James Butcher, chief executive at Supply Pilot, explores how creating shared learnings throughout the supply chain can produce innovation that will deliver more sustainable approaches for big and small brands alike.
Tom Russell, managing director of The Food Incubator, discussed his journey through the industry, the importance of understanding thermal processes and his advice of entrepreneurs in this exclusive podcast.
Ivy Farm Technologies, the UK start-up seeking to bring cultivated meat to UK consumers by 2023, has appointed former Barclays investment banker Azamat Kokov as a food technology finance expert.
Supermarket chain Morrisons has revealed that more than 1,000 food and drink companies have applied to its Growing British Brands programme since its launch in May.
Plant-based food brand Meatless Farm has been named a Rising Star in the 2021 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing UK technology companies.
The amount of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in food and drink manufacturing in significant financial distress has risen by 35%, comparing the first quarter of 2020 with the first quarter of 2021.
Morrisons has launched a new programme to support British food and drink entrepreneurs in a bid to help the country bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this exclusive interview, Nix & Kix co-founders Kerstin Robinson and Julia Kessler discuss their history and the challenges they faced in setting up their own drinks company.
Start-up Lava Spirits has outlined the development of its latest Lava Spirits Co Coffee Gin and Coffee Orange Gin launches, which it has made available direct to consumers via its website.
In this exclusive interview, Andy Zynga, boss of European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food, addresses likely access to funding after the Brexit transition period and three funding recipients that caught his eye.
