Tag: biscuit

20 OCT

Crumbs! Biscuit prices set to SOAR due to rising cost of butter

Food industry experts say butter-rich treats such a biscuits, shortbread and fudge are facing a massive rise in costs as a result of the surge in butter prices. Wholesale butter prices have rocketed by 73 per cent in the past year. Since then biscuit makers have absorbed the cost increases, but now prices are set […]

25 APR

Nestle to slash HUNDREDS of British jobs as it moves Blue Riband biscuit production abroad

The company is to axe almost 300 posts at UK factories in favour of a production plant in Poland. The job losses will mainly affect the company’s sites in York and Newcastle as well as a small number of cuts in Halifax and Girvan in Scotland. Furious union chiefs slammed with decision with the GMB […]

25 MAR

Comic Relief viewers OUTRAGED as biscuit game shown after clip of baby starving to death

The telethon – that raised £71 million for domestic and international charities – left many people horrified by their game ‘Biscuit World Cup’. It involved members of the public voting online for their favourite treat whilst panelists Miranda Hart, Rob Beckett, Joel Dommett, Sally Phollips and Richard Osman spoke about their best-loved biscuit. They sat […]