Unveiled this week (19
th April), the next generation technology, which has been incorporated into the company’s new Freshline® High Performance batch freezer, delivers higher quality frozen products whilst helping food manufacturers to respond faster and more efficiently to growing consumer demand for quality frozen food.
The move comes as year-on-year growth in the United Kingdom frozen food sector is up 13.8% - above that of total grocery sales, according to British Frozen Food Federation data.
Commenting on the technology launch, Neil Hansford, UK&I Freshline Applications Product Line Manager at Air Products, said, “Air Products has been developing innovations in the food processing sector for decades, and we’re incredibly proud of the latest advances we’ve made in freezing technology.”
Frozen food sales continue to grow, new figures reveal Print
20th April 2021
Frozen food sales continue to go from strength to strength, adding another £930m in sales, new data reveals.
The latest Kantar figures, released by the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF), for the 52-week period ending 21 March reveal frozen has continued to outperform the overall grocery market, increasing by 14.4% in value and 11.5% in volume. The frozen category has also outperformed the fresh and chilled category in value growth.
Richard Harrow, BFFF chief executive, said: “It’s encouraging to see a continuation of the success we saw in 2020. It’s evidence of a growing awareness of frozen food’s role in helping reduce food waste and the introduction of frozen to a younger demographic who want freshness, quality, and convenience.
Mindful Chef aims to grow offer in push to £150m in sales Online recipe box business Mindful Chef aims to grow its product offer in categories such as frozen foods to reach £150m in sales by 2024, boosted by traditional retail and concessions. Mindful Chef is known for being a recipe box [business]
and we do that pretty well, said co-founder Myles Hopper, speaking at the British Frozen Food Federation s virtual business conference on 19 April. However, in the future, we very much want to be more relevant more often across the week and our product offering and extensions, very much the frozen range will play a big part in this.
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By Lyndsey Cambridge2021-04-08T09:25:00+01:00
Around £30m worth of food is set to be wasted ahead of the reopening of the hospitality sector
Wholesalers estimate the cost of food waste will set the sector back a “devastating” £30m this quarter as thousands of tonnes of food is sent to landfill.
The figure is three times higher than the Federation of Wholesale Distributors estimated for wasted goods in August 2020, when short-dated stock was being more widely accepted by hospitatlity outlets due to interventions by Defra and Wrap, which included guidance on how to safely store, relabel and distribute stock.
However FWD has told The Grocer wholesale customers are increasingly refusing to accept short-dated goods in the run-up to the partial reopening of the hospitaltiy sector, despite guidence outlining the goods are safe for consumption.