News in the Food sector

Italian frozen food company Findus Italy could be put on the block for up to 800m Euros by its parent consumer goods group Unilever. [more]

Flowfood Limited, a northern England-based company that provides a meals-on-wheels service, has been placed into administration. [more]

Ethical catering company Gold & Brown has been pushed into administration after trading for only one year, due to a fall in sales over the summer. The administrators were not revealed in repo [more]

Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based pub operator and brewer, has put 35 pubs up for sale, representing around 10% of its entire estate. [more]

Lion Capital, the private equity firm, may soon put its Kettle Foods [more]

Two dairies owned by the Dairy Farmers of Britain Ltd are to be sold in an online auction handled by King Sturge Plant & Machin [more]

Chocolate desert and soufflé producer, Gu, has been put up for sale by its founders, and has already received expressions of interest from chocolate giants, Nestle and [more]

Following negative sales growth at Tootsies, the burger restaurant chain, owners Clapham House have written down the value of the under-performing business by £24.2m and indicated that they would not be adverse to sellin [more]

Milk co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain has lost its contract with Co-operative stores and gone into receivership, leaving 2,200 jobs hanging in the balance. [more]

Bakery company Finsbury Foods has seen its shares rise by 30% over the past week due to a preliminary takeover approach. [more]

Molson Coors and Lord Bilimoria, Cobra's founder, have bought Cobra Beer in a £14m pre-pack administra [more]

Leaf International, the company behind Chewits, the well known sweets brand, could be put on the market after the owners hired UBS to seek out interest in the business. Leaf International, which is owned by [more]

C&C Group Plc, the producer of Magners cider, could go on the market after John Dunsmore was appointed as its new chief executi [more]

Premier Foods is considering putting some of its famous brands on the market as it aims to reduce its debt. [more]

Ilchester Cheese, the Somerset-based maker of blended cheeses, may be about to go on the market with a sale price of £ [more]

The brewer, Anheuser-Busch, has rejected a £23.3bn takeover bid from InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian br [more]

One of Scotland's largest food companies, Grampian Country Foods, has recently been acquired by the Dutch food producer, Vion, for an estimated &p [more]

Diageo, drinks company, is to announce restructuring plans for its Irish Guinness business. This plan might include closing down a large part of its tourist attraction brewing site in Dublin. If that were to happen, a new replacement brewery would be built in Clondalkin, north of Dublin. [more]

Three years after its launch, the Shetland-based organic cod farming business, No Catch, has fallen into administration. [more]

The founders of Eat, the nationwide sandwich company, are considering a sale of the business. [more]