Keith Packer has been appointed as managing director of British Sugar, the UK sugar beet refining business within the AB Sugar division of Associated British Foods. Mr Packer takes over from Mark Bainbridge, interim managing director since February 2023, when Paul...
2Sisters Food Group
New chief for Tulip
Danish Crown has appointed Andrew Cracknell as chief executive of its integrated UK pig production and processing business Tulip. Group chief executive Jais Valeur has been managing Tulip on a day-to-day basis since June 2018, on top of his main job, when former Tulip...
Kepak buys 2 Sisters’ UK red meat assets
Irish meat processor and food manufacturer the Kepak Group has moved into the UK redmeat slaughtering sector through the acquisition of the 2Sisters Red Meat assets with immediate effect. Kepak has agreed to buy the UK business and assets of 2Sisters Red Meat, part of...
New chair for Assured Food Standards
Assured Food Standards (AFS), the company behind the Red Tractor Assurance brand, has appointed Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe as chairman. She replaces Jim Moseley who recently moved from the non-executive chairman role to become AFS chief executive. From a...
2Sisters sales up 5% at Q2
Boparan Holdings, parent of the 2 Sisters Food Group of meat processing and food manufacturing businesses, has reported reduced profitability from 5% higher revenues from the second quarter of its financial year.The Group made an operating profit of £19.4 million on...
Karro Group changes hands
The major UK pig processing business Karro Foods has changed hands through its acquisition by the London-based private equity fund CapVest, subject to approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in Ireland and other closing conditions. ...