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Food & Drink - 2002
Soya International has bought T Kearns, the Bradford-based soft drinks manufacturer with 20 staff, from the receivers of Lancashire Dairies for undisclosed terms.
20-Dec-2002
Associated British Foods has sold six flour mills to Archer Daniels Midland for an estimated £70m, including sites in Liverpool, Knottingley, Corby, Tewkesbury, Edinburgh and Castleford.
20-Dec-2002
HP Bulmer is to sell its Australian cider operations to Foster's Group for £22m, and has also announced plans to shed a further 200 mainly Hereford-based jobs.
20-Dec-2002
Gresham Trust is backing the acquisition of Crosse & Blackwell's dried sauce and Snack Stop products by Brand Partnership of Leeds for undisclosed terms.
19-Dec-2002
South Gloucestershire Council is to consider plans from the Cotswold Spring Natural Mineral Water to rebuild its bottling plant at Codrington.
17-Dec-2002
Burn Stewart Distillers is to be acquired by CL Financial of Trinidad for £49m, and the new group plans to create a global drinks brand from a Scottish headquarters.
17-Dec-2002
Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to acquire Adams, the US chewing gum manufacturer, from Pfizer for £2.7bn.
17-Dec-2002
Beacon Foods is planning to create a further 60 jobs by 2004, following a recent £1.6m investment in food processing facilities.
16-Dec-2002
Diageo is planning to sell its Burger King fast food business to a US private equity consortium headed by Texas Pacific Group for £950m.
13-Dec-2002
S&A Foods is seeking permission for a £1.5m extension at one of its ready meals factories in Derby.
05-Dec-2002
JS Barton has bought BFD Group, the Edinburgh-based food distributor, out of receivership for a nominal sum.
04-Dec-2002
Kennelpak is planning to relocate its pet foods business from Castle Donington to a larger site at nearby Stapleford, with the creation of 20 new jobs.
03-Dec-2002
Unilever is to sell Pamol Group, the Malaysian producer of palm oil, to Palmco for £97m.
03-Dec-2002
Nestle is to invest £2.5m at its milk processing plant near Carlisle, but 24 jobs will be lost when production of condensed milk is transferred elsewhere.
02-Dec-2002
Lancashire Dairies has sold its flavoured milk division out of receivership to a management team for £3.2m, creating a new company called Pure Milk with 66 staff.
02-Dec-2002
Rich Products of the US is planning to expand its cookie and baked goods business in the UK, having just opened a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Kidderminster.
02-Dec-2002
SeaChill is planning a £2m expansion at its fish processing business in Grimsby, with the creation of 50 jobs.
29-Nov-2002
Western Isles Enterprise is to provide funding for the £0.7m expansion of the Hebridean Smokehouse fish processing plant on North Uist.
28-Nov-2002
Unilever has agreed to sell Iberia Foods, its US food and cleaning products distribution business, to the Brooklyn Bottling Group for undisclosed terms.
25-Nov-2002
Samworth Brothers is to start recruiting hundreds of staff for a new salad-making plant due to open in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, in April.
25-Nov-2002
S Black has acquired Universe Ingredients, the food ingredients supplier, and will merge the two businesses at its Hertford head office.
25-Nov-2002
Associated Co-operative Creameries has acquired the Southern Co-op's retail milk business, which includes a dairy in Portsmouth and three distribution sites.
25-Nov-2002
Robert Wiseman is to open milk depots in Durham and Somerset in 2003 and 2004 respectively, and is still seeking a suitable site for a distribution centre near London.
25-Nov-2002
Coors has announced plans to invest £35m at its brewery in Burton, with the creation of more than 100 jobs.
19-Nov-2002
Bako is investing £1m in a new freezer warehouse for its bakery and food distribution business in Preston.
18-Nov-2002
Lion Foods, the Runcorn-based company with 185 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management team.
18-Nov-2002
Arla Foods has acquired HT Webb, the speciality cheese supplier, for undisclosed terms.
12-Nov-2002
GBL International is considering plans to set up a vodka products plant at Clay Cross in Derbyshire with the creation of 120 jobs, but the project may be thwarted by high excise duties.
11-Nov-2002
Fenmarc, the Cambridgeshire-based vegetable processing company with 500 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by 3i.
11-Nov-2002
Cranswick has acquired North Wales Foods, the sandwich supplier with net assets of £1m.
31-Oct-2002
Crantock Bakery, the Newquay-based bakery with 77 staff, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers.
31-Oct-2002
Balfour Beatty has won a £16m contract to build a whisky bottling plant in Livingston for the Glen Turner subsidiary of Lamartin Aquaise.
31-Oct-2002
Northern Foods is creating up to 150 new jobs at its Palethorpes meat products factory in Market Drayton.
22-Oct-2002
S Daniels, the supplier of soups and juices, has accepted a £23m takeover bid from Singapore Food Industries.
21-Oct-2002
Elior, the French contract catering company, is to acquire Digby Trout, the operator of restaurants at a number of London venues.
18-Oct-2002
Sygen International has acquired Super Shrimp, the Mexican shrimp breeder, for £2.9m.
17-Oct-2002
Leading the Ornamental Challenge has secured a £0.5m grant from the government's Department of Rural Affairs to improve Lincolnshire's horticultural industry, which is expected to lead to the creation of 200 jobs.
16-Oct-2002
OP Chocolates has secured a £1.2m grant from the Welsh Development Agency to expand its marshmallow confectionery factory in Merthyr.
15-Oct-2002
Ken Bell International is planning to expand its shellfish processing plant in Newcastle with the creation of 120 jobs, and its headquarters will relocate from Jesmond to the production site in Longbenton next March.
11-Oct-2002
Associated British Foods is to acquire the Ovaltine malt drink and ten other brands from Novartis of Switzerland for £171m.
09-Oct-2002
Lancashire Dairies has sold its doorstep milk business to Creamline Dairies and its retail contracts business to Longslow Food Group.
07-Oct-2002
Scottish & Newcastle is planning to build a new bottling plant at the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, with the creation of up to 64 jobs.
04-Oct-2002
Uniq is to sell its St Ivel Spreads business, which includes a factory in Knowsley, to Dairy Crest for £86m.
01-Oct-2002
Unilever is to invest up to £107m in the creation of new venture funds to improve the way new product ideas are developed, and is particularly interested in the health sector and ideas that free up time at home.
01-Oct-2002
Diageo is to create 93 jobs at a new £41m drinks plant in Mallusk, Belfast, from July 2003, which will bottle Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur.
01-Oct-2002
Mid Suffolk District Council is to consider plans from Peter's Ice Cream for the relocation of its ice cream factory from Ipswich to the Lion Barn industrial estate in Needham Market.
01-Oct-2002
Tillery Valley Foods is to invest £5m in new production, storage and office facilities at its ready meals factory in Blaenau Gwent, with the creation of 100 jobs.
30-Sep-2002
Compass is paying £80m for a 60% stake in Italian catering company Onama.
30-Sep-2002
Maud's Ice Cream is investing £1m and creating 20 jobs at its new factory in Carrickfergus.
24-Sep-2002
Warburtons is to open a 130,000 sq ft bakery in Enfield, with the creation of about 300 jobs.
19-Sep-2002
Traidcraft, the international fair trade company that sells food and crafts from the Third World, is to raise up to £3.2m in a share offer, in order to invest more in its suppliers and upgrade its Gateshead headquarters.
19-Sep-2002
Maldon Crystal Salt Company is to relocate its Maldon-based salt processing business to a more productive site further down the River Blackwater.
17-Sep-2002
Eismann is planning to double its 100-strong fleet of frozen food home delivery trucks and expand into the Midlands and northern England over the next three years, using funding from parent company Nestle.
16-Sep-2002
Blueheath has raised £6.5m to expand its online wholesaling business, and the funds will be used to double its sales force and develop new warehouse facilities.
16-Sep-2002
Scottish Enterprise has announced plans to set up a £5m food technology company at the Hannah Research Park in Ayr next year, under the name of FFAST Solutions.
04-Sep-2002
Carmarthenshire County Council has approved plans from Port Talbot-based Dragon Baits for the development of a £4.5m fishing bait farm at Little Burrows near Pendine, which will create 127 jobs over the next three years.
03-Sep-2002
Unilever has sold Loders Croklaan, its edible oils business with plants in the Netherlands, Canada, Egypt and the US, to IOI Corporation of Malaysia for £139m.
02-Sep-2002
Genus, the cattle breeding company, is to relocate its head office from Crewe to Basingstoke, and some functions will be decentralised to its three operating divisions.
23-Aug-2002
Youngs Bluecrest is recruiting a further 40 staff at its Scottish scampi processing plant in Annan, as part of a £2m investment at the site.
21-Aug-2002
Sealord is planning to add two new production lines at its fish processing factory in Caistor, with the creation of 12 jobs.
20-Aug-2002
Farne Salmon & Trout is planning to create more than 100 jobs at its Duns-based smoked salmon business, following the introduction of new products and a £0.8m investment in new technology.
19-Aug-2002
Soleco is planning to double the size of its Florette prepared salads factory in Lichfield over the next 12 months.
19-Aug-2002
Albert Fisher's receivers have sold its seafood processing operations in Fraserburgh and Peterhead to Macrae's, which will involve the transfer of 770 staff.
15-Aug-2002
Dairy Crest has awarded a contract to Nampak to expand its polybottle manufacturing plant at Chadwell Heath and to build a new bottling plant at its Severnside site.
12-Aug-2002
Arkady Craigmillar is relocating its confectionery mixes factory from Suffolk to Manchester.
12-Aug-2002
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has awarded a £29m contract to Kier to build a new headquarters in Whitehall, London.
08-Aug-2002
Diageo has agreed to sell its Burger King fast food business to a consortium that includes Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners for about £1.4bn.
26-Jul-2002
East Surrey Holdings has sold The Classic Water Company, its bottled water supply business with 31 staff in Surrey and Essex, to Culligan International for £3.3m.
25-Jul-2002
KK Wholefoods is to relocate its food processing factory from Flint to a new site at the Deeside Industrial Park in October, and expects to double the workforce to 100 within five years.
25-Jul-2002
Greencore has sold Pann Krisp, the Wrexham-based chilled foods manufacturer with 400 staff, to a management buy-in.
24-Jul-2002
Glanbia is to sell its UK foodservice distribution business to Peter's Food Service for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 500 staff at a central facility in Tamworth and eight regional depots.
23-Jul-2002
Memory Lane Cakes is to undergo a £9.5m reverse takeover by cash shell Megalomedia, creating a new group called Finsbury Foods.
23-Jul-2002
Albert Fisher's receivers have sold the group's frozen and chilled recipe dish business to Coldwater Seafood, securing the future of 250 jobs in Redditch.
19-Jul-2002
Cumbrian Seafoods is creating 70 new jobs at its seafood operations in Cumbria, including 40 at a third factory unit on the Solway Industrial Estate in Maryport and 30 at its main plant.
15-Jul-2002
Samworth Brothers has started work on the development of a £20m sandwich factory on a 20-acre site off the M1 near Leicester, and up to 400 jobs will be created from February next year.
15-Jul-2002
Hazlewood Foods is investing £13m at its ready meals factory in Warrington, and a further £6m will be invested at its Wisbech site to double capacity and create 200 jobs.
15-Jul-2002
Grampian Country Foods has received a £55m equity investment from Bank of Scotland, and some of the funding may be used for the overseas expansion of its poultry processing operations.
12-Jul-2002
The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £3.6m European grant for Selonda UK to develop a £19m halibut farm in a disused Anglesey quarry, including on-site fish processing plant, commercial-scale marine hatchery and the creation of 55 jobs.
09-Jul-2002
Midland Meat Packers is to shed 100 jobs at its abattoir near Rugby next month, and other staff are expected to be relocated to other sites.
09-Jul-2002
Bure Valley Foods is planning a £1m expansion at its meat and poultry products plant at Earl Stonham near Stowmarket, with the creation of 50 jobs.
08-Jul-2002
Avana Bakeries is to create 177 jobs at its bakery in Newport, having won a new contract to supply Christmas Cakes to Marks & Spencer.
05-Jul-2002
Cains, the Liverpool-based brewer, has been acquired by Stourbridge-based drinks distributor Gardner Shaw for £3.4m.
04-Jul-2002
Tolly Cobbold is to merge with Essex-based brewer TD Ridley & Sons, and its Ipswich brewery will be closed and production transferred to the Ridleys brewery at Hartford End, near Chelmsford.
04-Jul-2002
The Leicester Shire Development Agency has announced that up to 1,000 new jobs will be created in Leicestershire when three unnamed companies establish new sites in the county, including a UK food manufacturer, a German hi-tech company and a US distributor.
02-Jul-2002
Greencore is to sell two subsidiaries to Campbell Soup for about £16m, including William Rodgers, the UK pasta and rice company, and Erin Foods, the Irish soups and sauces company.
01-Jul-2002
Carrick Council has approved plans for the development of a £30m 34-acre food park between Truro and Redruth, which will provide food processing and storage facilities for up to 50 companies.
01-Jul-2002
British Bakeries is setting up a chain of regional distribution centres across the country, including sites in Glasgow, Avonmouth and three other unspecified locations.
01-Jul-2002
Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire the branded chewing gum business of Dandy of Denmark for £201m.
28-Jun-2002
Debsons of Sunderland is to expand its sandwich business across the country by opening new depots, and its workforce will rise from 35 to at least 85 by the end of the year.
28-Jun-2002
Albert Fisher's receivers are to sell three chilled foods businesses to Fresh Del Monte Produce of the US for undisclosed terms, saving 1,200 jobs at sites in York, Wisbech and Methwold, Norfolk.
27-Jun-2002
Brake Bros, the catering company, is to be acquired by US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice in a £434m deal.
26-Jun-2002
Walkers is planning a £50m expansion at its crisps factory in Leicester, including a new warehouse and production line, with the creation of up to 150 jobs.
25-Jun-2002
Milk Group is to merge with Zenith Milk to create a new co-operative organisation called Dairy Farmers of Britain, in order to reduce the haulage and administration costs involved with supplying milk to dairies.
24-Jun-2002
Dairy Crest is to invest £49m at the Davidstow creamery in Cornwall, in order to expand production of its Cathedral City cheese brand.
14-Jun-2002
Northern Foods is considering plans to relocate its headquarters and 150 staff to the Island Wharf waterfront site in Hull, but a number of other sites are also being considered.
14-Jun-2002
United Biscuits is to expand production at its KP snacks factory in Billingham with the creation of 100 jobs, due to the success of the new Shoks potato hoop.
12-Jun-2002
Kleeneze is to sell its Tranfood meat processing business to Recordline, in order to raise up to £3m and focus on its direct retail operations.
11-Jun-2002
Anglia Crown is planning a £1m expansion at its hospital meals production facility in Manchester by November, with the creation of 30 jobs.
10-Jun-2002
International Cuisine is creating 50 new jobs at its ready meals factory in Consett, following a £2.8m expansion programme.
04-Jun-2002
Kwoks is planning a £5m expansion at its Oriental foods factory in Grimsby, with the creation of 70 jobs.
03-Jun-2002
Golden Wonder, the snacks manufacturer, is being sold by Bridgepoint Capital to The Snack Factory of Skelmersdale for undisclosed terms, while the Wotsits brand is being sold to Walkers.
28-May-2002
Robert Wiseman Dairies is considering sites in Luton, Swindon and Oxford to set up a new £5m milk depot, as part of a strategy to expand further into the south-east.
21-May-2002
McIntosh of Dyce has sold its bakery business to Bell Bakers of Shotts for undisclosed terms, saving 75 jobs.
20-May-2002
Glisten, the Blackburn-based specialist foods company, is planning a flotation on Aim, and will then undergo a £7.5m management buy-in.
20-May-2002
Warrens of St Just has acquired the Mayflower bakery in Plymouth, which will involve the transfer of 100 staff.
17-May-2002
Sun Valley Foods is to close its poultry processing factory at Blaenavon in South Wales in August and relocate up to 289 jobs to Hereford.
16-May-2002
McIntosh of Dyce has sold its Aberdeenshire-based ready meals business out of receivership to a management team for undisclosed terms, saving 50 jobs.
14-May-2002
Glenmorangie is investing £0.5m in the expansion of capacity at its Tain distillery in the Highlands.
14-May-2002
Brandons has acquired Moorland Poultry of Yorkshire for undisclosed terms, creating a combined turkey business with annual turnover of more than £100m.
13-May-2002
Grampian Country Foods is to close its poultry processing plant at Newbridge in Edinburgh with the loss of 550 jobs, in order to relocate the work to its Coupar Angus site.
09-May-2002
Thompson & Morgan, the Ipswich-based horticulture and seeds company, has undergone a £17m management buy-out from US parent International Garden Products.
07-May-2002
Brecon Carreg is undergoing a £1.5m expansion at its mineral water production plant near Llandeilo, with the creation of 21 jobs.
06-May-2002
Youngs Bluecrest is to close a fish factory in Kilkeel, County Down, with the loss of 150 jobs, in order to relocate the scampi processing operation to Scotland.
06-May-2002
Nestle has agreed to sell its UK-based ambient-temperature food operations to Premier International Foods for about £135m.
06-May-2002
Geest has acquired SBLP, the French prepared salads company, for £1.6m, in order to strengthen its position in the north of the country.
03-May-2002
Tate & Lyle has sold its US-based Western Sugar business to Rocky Mountain Sugar Growers Co-operative for £58m.
02-May-2002
Tomos Watkin is to invest £0.4m increasing the capacity at its Swansea brewery, with the creation of 20 jobs.
30-Apr-2002
Flatfish is to relocate its Grimsby-based fish processing factory and 30 staff to a new £1m site in Stirling Street in July.
24-Apr-2002
Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mazola corn products business in the US and 18 other brands from Unilever for £248m.
24-Apr-2002
Roach Foods is to create 100 additional jobs at its factory in Bodmin, having won new contracts to supply cooked and packaged meats to supermarkets.
19-Apr-2002
Burton's Foods is to invest £12m at its biscuit factory in Wirral over the next three years, with the creation of 150 jobs.
17-Apr-2002
Compass is to acquire Gruppo Events, the provider of catering services at Somerset House in London, for up to £6.6m.
15-Apr-2002
Cantrell & Cochrane is to invest £10m on replacing its Belfast-based soft drinks production facility, following a recent fire.
11-Apr-2002
Del Monte Fresh Produce is creating 42 jobs at a new 30,000 sq ft fruit packing and distribution centre in Gateshead.
10-Apr-2002
Bernard Matthews is planning to extend its factory in Alderford, Norfolk, in order to incorporate a sandwich and pizza processing section, with the creation of up to 150 jobs.
03-Apr-2002
Fyffes is to close its banana ripening and distribution centre in Highbridge, Somerset, with the loss of 60 jobs, and the business will be relocated to Basingstoke.
02-Apr-2002
Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Nantucket Allserve, the US soft drinks company with annual sales of £42m, for undisclosed terms.
26-Mar-2002
Mellors is planning to triple the turnover of its Southport-based contract catering business by taking on a further 30 contracts and recruiting dozens of staff.
25-Mar-2002
Coors is to close its brewery in Smethwick later this year with the loss of up to 320 jobs, and production will be relocated to Burton, where 100 new jobs could be created.
25-Mar-2002
Voyager Foods is considering plans to invest up to £1m in the expansion of its sauces factory in Sunderland, as parent company Kerry looks to expand across Europe.
25-Mar-2002
Burton's Foods has acquired Biscuit Makers, the Irish manufacturer of Kelly's cookies.
25-Mar-2002
Youngs Bluecrest, the Grimsby-based fish processing company, is to be sold by Legal & General Ventures to a management buy-out for £137m.
20-Mar-2002
Diageo is to sell its Glen Ellen wine business in the US to Franzia Winery for £58m.
19-Mar-2002
Scottish & Newcastle is to set up a 355,000 sq ft regional distribution centre at the Mill Park scheme in Thatcham.
18-Mar-2002
Tomos Watkin, the Llansamlet-based brewery, is undergoing a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
15-Mar-2002
Brake Bros is considering plans to put itself up for sale, and may seek a partner to expand its catering operations in France and the UK.
12-Mar-2002
Scottish & Newcastle is to relocate its Waverly Vintners drinks wholesaling office and call centre from Perth to sites in Edinburgh and Gateshead, which will have an impact on 75 jobs.
08-Mar-2002
Uniq is to set up a prepared foods factory at the former Devon Desserts site in Newton Abbot, with the creation of 50 jobs.
08-Mar-2002
Compass is to acquire Bon Appetit Management, the US foodservice company based in California, for £114m.
07-Mar-2002
G&G Food Supplies is investing more than £1m in new machinery for its vitamin manufacturing business in East Grinstead.
07-Mar-2002
Brake Bros has acquired two French regional catering wholesalers - Bianchi Gers and PSM Jarny - for £14m.
05-Mar-2002
Arla Foods is to invest £40m in the development of a new dairy near Leeds by 2004, to replace an existing city centre site.
04-Mar-2002
BC Partners has acquired Galbani, the Italian cheese and salami company, from Danone for £610m, and may now seek further acquisitions in the European cheese market.
28-Feb-2002
Allied Domecq has bought the Malibu rum brand from Diageo for £560m, and has also acquired Mumm Cuvee Napa, the US sparkling wine company, for £27m.
28-Feb-2002
Cadbury Schweppes has acquired a 51% stake in Kent Gida, the Turkish sugar confectionery company, for £90m.
22-Feb-2002
Tate & Lyle is looking to sell its North American molasses operations, including United Molasses, UM North America and United Storage.
21-Feb-2002
Cwmni Cig Arfon is planning a £1m expansion at its meat processing plant in Caernarfon, with the creation of 20 jobs.
19-Feb-2002
Carlsberg-Tetley is to invest £10m in the expansion of its Northampton brewery, and its marketing budget is to rise by 70% to £28m this year.
19-Feb-2002
Aldreds is building a new £2m bakery at the Manners Industrial Estate in Ilkeston, which will involve the creation of 30 new jobs and the relocation of up to 64.
18-Feb-2002
Needler Bluebird is considering plans to close its confectionery factory in Hull, and the business may be relocated to parent company Ashbury Confectionery in Corby.
18-Feb-2002
BFD Group has acquired Crowson's & Sons, the cheese supplier, gaining access to warehouse space in Cheltenham and catering customers in London.
18-Feb-2002
Scottish & Newcastle is to acquire Hartwall, the Finnish beer and soft drinks company, for £1.2bn, gaining a 50% stake in Russia's leading brewer Baltic Beverages Holdings.
15-Feb-2002
Compass has acquired the Castle Independent school meals business, which includes 2,500 staff across the country, from Castle View for undisclosed terms.
15-Feb-2002
Allied Distillers is to re-activate the Glendronach distillery with the creation of 18 jobs, and has also announced plans to mothball its Dumbarton distillery and invest £6m at its Strathclyde facility.
15-Feb-2002
Fishwicks is to create 40 jobs with the opening of a new £1.5m fruit and vegetable depot at the Simonside East Industrial Park in South Shields this summer.
07-Feb-2002
Tate & Lyle has sold its sugar refining operations in Namibia and Zimbabwe to CBAQ of Botswana for £3.2m, as part of a strategy to focus on Europe and the US.
07-Feb-2002
The Scottish Executive has announced grants worth £6.8m for improvements to 52 fisheries and aquaculture capital projects in rural Scotland, which could lead to the creation of up to 640 jobs.
06-Feb-2002
Compass has acquired London-based contract caterer Woodin & Johns for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its City dining branch Restaurant Associates.
01-Feb-2002
Joseph Mitchell of Dundee has acquired Challenger Foods of Sunderland for £3.5m, and wants to double the size of the chicken processing business with the creation of about 100 jobs.
01-Feb-2002
Solway Foods is to invest £1.5m at its chilled convenience foods factory in Corby with the creation of 120 jobs, in order to launch 20 new product lines this year.
30-Jan-2002
Unilever has sold Cremanaze, the Kent-based sauces and dressings manufacturer with 30 staff, in order to focus on key brands.
28-Jan-2002
Needler Bluebird has been acquired by Ashbury Confectionery of Corby to create a combined confectionery business with turnover of £25m.
28-Jan-2002
Napier Brown has sold its Express Products pizza manufacturing business in Lymington to management for £0.5m, and the business has been renamed Doughology.
21-Jan-2002
Allied Domecq and Miller Brewing are to invest £17m each in a new joint venture to launch vodka-and-tequila-flavoured drinks in the US.
21-Jan-2002
Warburtons is to invest £1m at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne bakery this year, including new equipment, new delivery vehicles and more training for the 300 staff.
17-Jan-2002
Scotch Premier Meat is to invest £1m in the reopening of Dornoch abattoir, with the creation of 50 jobs.
17-Jan-2002
Tate & Lyle has sold East African Storage of Kenya to African Bulk Commodities and Tanzania Liquids Storage to Africa Tank Terminals, and the deals include assets worth £1.3m.
15-Jan-2002
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has started work on a £19m scheme to replace its kitchens with ready-cooked meals brought in from Tillery Valley Foods of South Wales, with the creation of 80 jobs at a distribution centre at Seacroft Hospital.
14-Jan-2002
Yorkshire Cottage Bakeries has bought Mother Hubbard Cakes, the Hyde-based manufacturer of cake bars, out of administration.
14-Jan-2002
Princes Foods is planning to double the size of its business over the next three years, having reorganised the company structure into three divisions - Princes Foods Trading & Manufacturing, Princes Foods International and Princes Soft Drinks.
14-Jan-2002
Dundees, the sandwich producer with 47 staff, is considering plans to relocate to a purpose-built factory on a one-acre site near its Newcastle-upon-Tyne headquarters.
10-Jan-2002
Bathams is planning a £1m expansion programme in order to increase capacity at its Brierley Hill brewery and buy five more pubs across the Black Country.
07-Jan-2002
Palmer & Harvey McLane, the food and cigarette distributor, is planning a £165m management buy-out.
07-Jan-2002