market sectors, as the companies have been hit by lacklustre sales performance from their key customers, the supermarkets. The strong pound and deflationary pressures on prices have also been factors.

UNIGATE has gone hostile over Terranova Foods, tabling a #228m cash bid for the chilled dishes producer. Last week the group approached Terranova, which was demerged from Hillsdown last October, in ...

David Cameron says that the coalition government wants every company to provide a pension scheme for employees; that way we will all be compelled to save wisely for our futures. But is entrusting our ...

Unigate yesterday blamed the swine fever outbreak for preventing its pork processing plant in North Yorkshire returning to profit. The company had hoped pig prices would have fallen by now and ...

Dairy giant Unigate has embarked on an ambitious multimillion-pound IT strategy to link up the manufacturing and financial systems at seven of its UK factories. Unigate's St Ivel trifle manufacturing ...

John Clement, who has died aged 85, was a fourth-generation dairyman who became chairman of Unigate – and set out to transform it from Britain’s biggest milk delivery business to a food and transport ...

DAIRY CRESTS takeover of Unigates cheese and milk business has boosted business, with interim pre-tax profits figures showing an increase of almost 40%. Excluding exceptional costs, interim pre-tax ...

DAIRY Crest has reported a big increase in profits following its acquisition of Unigates dairy and cheese business last year. Pre-tax profits (before exceptional costs) hit £57m for the 12 months to ...

Dairy Crest has spent a year getting rid of a SAP installation after it merged with Unigate last year. The milk and dairy food producer has replaced the installation with a combination of Geac's ...

The final rump of the once giant Unigate business was sold today in a £113 million deal agreed by Irish food company Greencore. Uniq was put up for sale by its pension fund in April. The fund had ...