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Food Manufacture Podcast — 252 episodes
PHIZZ CEO: ‘We should embrace competitors. One brand doesn’t build a category’
Bio&Me Co-founder: ‘Make a promise and deliver it, or lose trust for good’
Founder of BeSmoke: ‘I burned down more than one factory’
White Rabbit co-founder: ‘Fear of failure is the biggest driver there is’
‘We went from 100 to 6,000 units a day’: DoughGirl founders on their explosive first year
Fearne & Rosie founder: ‘That naivety and simplicity is a big part of why our business started’
FieldFare MD: ‘You make the unachievable achievable’
Small Beer co-founder: Pioneering a category, not just a product
Tenzing founder: ‘We’re fighting pure habit and availability’
Borough Broth founder: ‘Never be afraid to ask questions’
Frobishers MD: ‘We not only survived, we came through quite strongly’
Griddle founders: ‘We’re not here to create another preservative-pumped product’
Pip Organic founders: ‘We wanted it enough to be patient’
Heroes & Heretics CEO: ‘I was so stressed out that I wasn’t present with the people that needed me’
Better Nature founders: ‘We were told we would never get tempeh on a supermarket shelf’
Good Guys Bakehouse founder: ‘I’ve come into being an entrepreneur in a very calculated way’
Fudge Kitchen MD: ‘The future of the business into the hands of the people who built it’
Pact Coffee CEO: ‘We dominate in subscriptions’
Modern Baker founder: Birth of the ‘Superloaf’
Taylors Snacks MD: ‘Destined’ to lead
Hoxton Spirits CEO: ‘The difference between success and failure is perseverance’
Hilltop Honey co-founder and owner: 'It’s either the honey or the bees'
Delightful Food CEO: 'You cannot control everything, you have to trust the people you employ'
Glebe Farm boss: ‘We wanted to stand up for what was right’
Pip & Nut founder: 'Get good people around you, get good mentors, get a good network and find your tribe'
Blue Turaco founder: 'I want your voices to be heard in the rooms where decisions are being made'
THIS co-founder: ‘My life’s work is about improving the lives of animals’
Nimisha Raja: 'I sold everything for the business I believed in'
Bart Ingredients CEO: 'If you’re trying to be someone you're not, you won't last very long'
Just Love founder: 'No cake on the marketplace was safe for my kids to eat'
Ecotone UK chief executive: 'It's you that will make yourself successful'
Episode 10: Year in review
Episode 9: Recalls and food safety
Episode 8: Business Leaders’ Forum 2023
Episode 7: Alternative proteins
Episode 6: Uplifting products
Episode 5: Sustainability trends
Episode 4: Energy crisis and the return of good week, bad week
Episode 3: Apprenticeships
Episode 2: Embracing equity
Episode 1: Mining for young talent
Unlocking the potential of alternative proteins: Exclusive podcast
Alternative proteins: The sustainable solution?
Blanco Niño boss Philip Martin: Exclusive podcast
Tackling opportunistic fraudsters: NSF podcast
Sustainability, plant-based and environmental issues at Arla: Podcast interview
Preparing for cyber attacks in the food and drink industry: exclusive podcast
JBS delves deeper into the world of alternative proteins
My mental health journey: Princes chief people officer Joe Dent
Natasha Foundation clinical trials: Exclusive podcast
R&D and plant-based fish: John West podcast
Onsite energy generation and the transition to renewables: Ylem podcast
Vegan pet food in focus: Noochy Poochy interview
Givaudan launch looks to improve plant-based burger mouthfeel
Frozen food momentum to continue post-pandemic; BFFF head
Enzymes to help reduce waste and improve yield
Mamamade secures £1.5m crowdfund: Exclusive podcast
Key consumer trends for 2022: Exclusive podcast
Health and food safety applications for automation and AI
The Food Incubator: Exclusive podcast
Official vet shortage will not impact supplies over Christmas: FSA
Edible insects left in legal limbo
Alternative protein trends explored at new Givaudan innovation centre
Trust in British food ‘overwhelmingly strong’: Red Tractor report
PureCircle and Synergy collaborate to update Skinny Drinks with Starleaf Reb M extract
Kyon Drinks: New drinks launch dodges the pandemic
Reducing waste and beating COVID at Blue Aurora
Managing water usage at Suntory
Reformulate: Fooditive's upcycled plant-based sweetener
Rethinking UK game at Holme Farmed Venison
How Made Smarter is helping firms grow through digital tech
Napton Cidery discusses crowdfunding success
The status of eggs in 2021: Noble Foods interview
Digital adoption necessary for food firms: Puratos
Urban Fresh Foods squares off against COVID-19 challenges
Foot on The Ladder: how COVID-19 inspired The Pished Fish
Junk food crackdown could boost keto snacks – Fatt podcast
Re:formulate: Action on Salt on food industry salt reduction
Foot on the ladder: Alphagreen seeks crowdfunding success
Mondi: plastic packaging, shelf-life and waste
Chicken Joes boosts business after securing £78k tax credit
Re:formulate: Brusco MD on sodium reduction and Smart Salt
Tetra Pak and Rockwell Automation in AI powders supply boost
Food Safety Briefing: Campden BRI’s bread project
Foot on the ladder: start-up Nix and Kix
How Rakusen’s brought industry 4.0 to 100 year-old factory
Former England football chef takes on frozen ready meals
Treatt and Siemens detail new digital factory
Dole Europe MD on company’s drive for zero fruit waste
Challenges and opportunities as a Pilgrim’s Pride apprentice
Being a better apprentice: FMEA finalist interview
Coca-Cola apprentice Amelia Cockran on COVID-19 challenge
Apprentice of the Year finalist Henry Greer
Rakusen’s adopts digital technologies through KTN partnership
Unilever reveals €1bn plant-based goal, partner Algenuity talks microalgae
Weetabix outlines sustainability efforts
The Tofoo Company to launch frozen tofu range
Pilgrim’s Pride: COVID-19, Brexit, packaging and sustainability
Fatherson Bakery: business after Food Manufacture awards win
Manufacturers to adapt to obesity policy or be forced to
Prizes up for grabs at food innovation contest
Fatherson Bakery boss: how pandemic changed NPD priorities
Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses transcends coronavirus supply chain disruption
Tackling COVID-19 and automation at Lancashire Farm Dairies
Coronavirus and the supply chain one month after lockdown
Start-up accelerator to fund projects that tackle childhood obesity
Ulma revisits machinery manufacturers’ role in packaging innovation
Riding the meat-free wave at The Tofoo Company
Digital age unfullfilled needs ‘create opportunities for food manufacturers’
Michael Gove tells firms ‘don’t rely on cheap imported labour’
Food firms need to show honesty: research boss
Big cost savings from small supply chain changes
How to save money? Go environmentally-friendly
Retailing competition could reduce Brexit cost impacts
Manufacturers and retailers must work together
Good news on the way for Morrisons: Shore Capital
Next Month’s News: our podcast preview
Next Month’s News: Food Manufacture’s new podcast
Bernard Matthews boss offers advice to younger self
2016 trends: Sports nutrition goes mainstream
Food firms must produce own energy or become ‘uncompetitive’
Food retail industry has ‘mother of all hangovers’
Biggest challenge for British-based Mexican food firm
Taylors of Harrogate reduces maintenance downtime
Graze ceo: ‘going from clicks to bricks isn’t easy’
Production continued at UB plant during £50M investment
Bread is ‘price war casualty’ – FoB director
Boost convenience products to grow, says cereal boss
What start-ups need from a new UK government
Bosch launches speedy carton machine
Premium boom is a big opportunity for posh SMEs
Mondelēz boosts coffee site staff
Frozen will dwarf other online categories – Birds Eye
Less ‘silly legislation’ needed to beat food waste
Time is running out for setting effective MRLs
Quorn talks of fourth fermenter
Stop misusing natural, expert urges
Egg producer cracks supermarket deal following investment
Faccenda ups efficiency with training and robotics
Greenvale’s Swancote ups output by 60%
Tulip goes the whole hog for US-style foods
Young skills ambassadors give thumbs up to food industry
Freedom Food will boost its foodservice presence
Discounters less likely to breach the Groceries Code
‘Weekend warriors’ drive added protein demand
Low food risk from Cook’s high-labour model
Investment helps Moy Park steer clear of campylobacter speculation
Adams Foods responds to customer demand for innovation
Stevia is not a calorie panacea: regulatory scientist
Paramount 21 invests to expand production
Own-label ready meals lack innovation, Bingham and Jones
Over-65s prime target for functional food businesses
Department of Health ‘difficult’, says Dairy UK boss
Warburtons boss: innovation vital in discounters’ market
Recession was a good one for food industry
Progress on sustainable palm oil unfairly criticised
Supermarkets were ‘totally and utterly’ complacent
Overseas and national food firms invest in UK jobs
Meadow Foods’ efficiencies improved with £3M investment
Obesity can be tackled by educating consumers, says nutritionist
Food manufacturers face skills drain unless wages rise
Frozen food must innovate to flourish
Dairy companies can’t bridge skills gap alone, says Arla consultant
NFU: competition to hit milk prices more than floods
Shoppers urged not to demonise packaging
United Biscuits reveals £50M capital investment
Patchy implementation hampers continuous improvement
FDF highlights export challenges and opportunities
Government impressed by industry skills initiative
Mintel flags up top trends for the dairy sector
Economic recovery won’t change shopping habits: IGD
British Lion Code of Practice changes to prevent food fraud
Mondelēz aims to boost chocolate penetration
UK consumers buying less fruit and veg: IGD
Food firms get aid for brain claims
Irish beef exports shrug off horsemeat to rise by 16%
£4M factory enables CP Foods to expand into branded goods
Carton recycling site to help close UK recycling gap with EU
Corkers completes factory expansion
Management buyouts difficult, but not impossible: Snowbird boss
Unilever and Noble Foods top of table for animal welfare – charity boss
Boomtime for Pork Farms’ quiche factory in wake of summer heatwave
Premium fudge firm boss predicting significant growth
Crisp firm Seabrook battles back into the black
No rest from rising ingredient costs: Pukka Pies’ boss
Employees will rise to the challenge if firms invest – Allied Bakeries
Manufacturers’ support crucial to tackle soaring food poverty
Food firms should draw more on export support
Ice cream firm’s success down to ‘weather-proofing the business’
Omega-3 brain and vision benefits could boost food firms
Don't fear failure in new markets: ingredients boss
Butchers are the ‘mistress’ of the high street, says sausage manufacturer
Food Manufacturing Excellence Award sent buzz through business
Food sustainability begins at home, says top scientist
Dairy site is a global anaerobic digestion trendsetter
Engage staff to cut waste: Dairy boss
Government’s ‘gung-ho‘ approach to GM will scare public
Top priority for Groceries Code adjudicator: Needless breaches
Baxters boss reveals secrets of a successful move
Food firms have ‘enormous’ impact on economic recovery
‘Eat better meat’ to protect environment and improve food security: Charity boss
Europe is ‘critically dependent on GM animal feed’: US adviser
Meat-free firms in sales boom thanks to horsemeat scandal
Lion mark on egg-based products would boost sales
Food manufacturers finally waking up to engineering time bomb, says skills chief
Shellfish and nut imports posing greatest food risk to UK consumers
Food manufacturing not ‘trendy enough’ for policy makers
Parliamentary food chief warns against legal sugar, salt and fat limits
Small firms can make a big splash with exports – Stilton maker
Food firms keen to use the force of Disney’s Star Wars deal
Food manufacturers should educate shoppers about sustainable fish
Major brewery thwarted in non-alcoholic halal beer bid
Food manufacturers warned egg prices will rise after poor wheat harvest
Food manufacturing: who pays for sustainability?
Food manufacturers should share research: Shadow DEFRA minister
Food manufacturing shouldn't 'fall down the cracks of government': FDF
Baby foods boss turns tables on organic critics
Poole’s Pies hopes winning new business will earn a crust
Five top tips for success: food manufacturing guru
Last minute plans cut Olympic disruption
Clarification needed to end desinewed meat confusion
FSA chief scientist's hi-tech answers to campylobacter
Kelly’s saves £200,000 through green schemes
How food manufacturers make Facebook and Twitter pay
Levi Roots: how to be a food entrepreneur
Robots and hygenic design dominate Anuga FoodTec show
Birds Eye boss leads frozen fightback
Free-from food firms realise sector's potential
Bill Gates on data collection to fight world hunger
Sleaford Quality Foods battles global supply chain
Food and drink firms misunderstand apprentices
Poultry sector faces unfair competition and high costs
Geoff Eaton sets out chilled food challenges
Wanted: Young talent to work in food manufacturing
Food firms should strengthen supply chain
Besmoke fans flames of growth
20% food industry growth by 2020 is 'realistic'
Frutarom offers bakers herbal energy boosters
China is key theme at FIE food show
Heineken cider plant training boosts efficiency
£21M boost for Coca-Cola Enterprise’s plant
Food firms should appeal to the iPod generation
Fourayes aims to grow fruit purée profile
Fourayes aims to grow its purée portfolio
Fourayes to grow fruit purée portfolio
Mixed global harvest for bakers, says Roberts Bakery
Heinz boss explains Kendal culture of 'continuous improvement'
Allied Bakeries boss reveals what it takes to be leader of the pack
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GSK: Open innovation will help double sales of Lucozade, Ribena in five years
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