Terry Foods acquires European Food Ingredients Terry Foods managing director Matt Gardiner talks to Food Manufacture about his acquisition of European Food Ingredients (EFI), COVID-19 challenges and the future of his business.
The North Staffordshire-based food ingredients trading company announced it had acquired EFI for an undisclosed sum.
Gardiner told
Food Manufacture that EFI, who have been long standing partners with Terry Foods, had approached him to acquire the business late last year.
“Before Christmas, the MD decided that she wanted to retire and called me and asked me if we wanted to acquire the business from them,” he explained.
Vegan KitKat to launch in UK Nestlé has announced the launch of KitKat V, the much-anticipated vegan version of its original KitKat chocolate wafer snack bar, later this year.
The product will be certified vegan and features smooth chocolate blended with plant-based ingredients and a crisp wafer base. The exact timing of the launch has not yet been disclosed. The announcement follows intense speculation in consumer titles aimed at vegans about an imminent launch of the vegan variant. This announcement follows Nestlé s disclosure last month that it was shifting all its Smarties products globally
The product was developed by chocolatiers and food scientists in Nestlé’s research and development centre in York.
Meat snacks processor Made for Drink to launch into crisps Meat snacks firm Made for Drink - a winner of the 2020 Food Manufacture Excellence Awards - is to launch into the potato crisps sector in April.
For the past four years, Made For Drink has supplied indulgent, meat-themed snacks designed to complement consumers favourite alcoholic tipples.
Now it aims to launch Chicken Salt Fries in 150g bags - made for a cold beer - and Tapas Fries in 125g bags - made for Aperitivo (Italian aperitifs).
The Chicken Salt Fries are based on a snack that s popular in Australia and the Tapas Fries are a mix of thin cut Patatas Fritas (straw fries) and crisp slices of authentic Spanish chorizo, seasoned with olives, sun-ripened tomatoes and paprika.
Plans for a Novel Food, Feed and Nutraceuticals Innovation Centre of Excellence have been ignited by a £4m investment from the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority Cabinet.
Sedamyl has announced plans to invest £80m in expanding distilling and liquid sweetener production at its Selby plant in Yorkshire - a former Tate & Lyle site - creating 75 jobs.