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A GIANT of Blackburn’s industrial heritage has died after a long illness. Geoffrey Livesey OBE, who was 82, had been one of the North West’s most prominent industrialists for over quarter of a century. Mr Livesey, who died on April 9 just two weeks before his 83rd birthday, was best known as the managing director and then CEO of Cobble Group in Blackburn, which under his stewardship had been the world’s largest manufacturer of tufted carpet making machinery, and as a former president of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce. Son Fraser said: “My father was a consummate businessman who, during his career, rose from management trainee to head of a large engineering group, believed passionately in supporting the local business community.”
A BOLTON-BORN giant of the North West’s industrial heritage died last week, after a long illness. Geoffrey Livesey OBE, who was 82, had been one of the North West’s most prominent industrialists for over quarter of a century. Mr Livesey, who died on April 9 just two weeks before his 83rd birthday, was best know as the managing director and then CEO of Cobble Group in Blackburn, which under his stewardship had been the world’s largest manufacturer of tufted carpet making machinery, and as a former president of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce. Son Fraser said: My father was a consummate businessman who, during his career rose from management trainee to head of a large engineering group, believed passionately in supporting the local business community.
Steve Connor
Monday, 18 February 2013
Food manufacturers and government agencies have consistently misled consumers over many years about the number of calories contained in food, nutritional experts said today.
Calorie-counting people trying to lose weight do not realise that the official system for assessing the caloric value of food is seriously flawed and incapable of providing accurate estimates of the amount of energy in a product, they said.
Food companies for instance do not take into account the caloric value of fibre in food with the effect that some high-fibre foods which are sold as low in calories may actually contain, in the extreme, up to 25 per cent more calories than the label suggests.