09 Mar 2006
| by Ravi Chandiramani
The Food and Drink Federation has this week called in PR support to demonstrate it is tackling...As the mouthpiece for the British food industry's collective opinion, the FDF has been sluggish ...
, the media's appetite for stories linking big food companies with poor public health remains undimmed ...
of advertising to children and food labelling. According to the FDF it will also aim to 'redress the balance ...
23 Feb 2006
| by Mike Granatt
As avian flu captures the headlines, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...and Food (MAFF). The early days of foot-and-mouth were handled by MAFF alone. It did an excellent job ...
and its agencies, food safety is with the Food Standards Agency, and so on. There is no single resource ...
03 Feb 2006
| by Kate Nicholas, kate.nicholas@haynet.com
junk food advertising to kids, but Jamie Oliver's success in the school dinners arena seems likely...of new media
to target kids. Last year Sustain, the organiser of the Children's Food
Bill campaign ...
09 Mar 2006
to address a lunchtime meeting of leading food manufacturers. The industry, he said, had ‘issues...Arculus believed public concerns over the nutritional value of food were growing and that obesity would become a critical problem. He said the food industry was likely to get the blame, in much the same way as the drinks industry has been implicated over binge drinking. Food firms, Arculus contended ...
12 Jan 2006
| by Anthony Hilton
I had never heard of Canterbury Foods, a company that went into administration last week, and I
24 Mar 2006
'Amanda was as good as it gets - she joined Richmond as an account
executive in 1990 and left five years later as an account director. She
worked on some high-maintenance food accounts ...
founding director of
Touch PR, which is now a thriving agency specialising in food and
drink. 'We hope ...
17 Nov 2006
memories of her. 'Her passion for food almost matches her passion for PR and we would
have loved to keep ...
29 Jun 2006
| by Anthony Hilton
The chocolate firm, meanwhile, announced a decision to withdraw from the shelves around one million chocolate bars after coming under pressure from the Food Standards Agency surrounding an alleged ...
, on the other hand, produced no explanation for their actions. The Food Standards Agency put an alert on its ...
01 Jun 2006
| by Ravi Chandiramani
. The explosive growth of the golden arches was checked in this decade as fast-food chains became identified as prime culprits in fuelling the obesity epidemic among children. Books such as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food ...
. But its enemies are not sated. A Fast Food Nation movie is to be released later this year, while a sequel ...
20 Apr 2006
| by Mike Granatt
As one dead swan sent the press into a frenzy, stakeholders were consulted and involved, websites rolled out, briefings held, and special public advice lines set up. It all seems so different from the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001. Then, the old Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food seemed ...