Date Created: 13 December 2011
Here are just a few of the recent Scottish food and drink stories that have hit the headlines recently.
US retailer opens its first store in Scotland
America’s favourite organic and natural food chain retailer, Whole Foods Market, opened its first store in Scotland last month – the only one in the UK outside of London.
Both Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International have provided advice and guidance to Whole Foods Markets in Scotland and in the USA to enable the company to establish a base in Giffnock.
Whole Foods Market’s new store in Giffnock, Glasgow offers a place to shop where everything is freshly made, locally sourced, mindful of the seasons, Scottish wherever possible and always of the very best quality.
Read the full story in The Scotsman
£500k research boost for Macphie
The Aberdeenshire company that provides ingredients to companies such as the bakery chain Greggs, has secured £500,000 of government funding to research how to use soundwaves in its cooking.
Macphie of Glenbervie are leading the project to use ultrasound techniques to create gluten-free and reduced-salt products.
Read the full story in The Scotsman
New food labelling regulation published
New Food Information Regulation (FIR) designed to make food labelling easier to understand for consumers, has been published by the European Union.
The labelling will include a mandatory country of origin category, spelling out good news for Scottish food companies wishing to highlight a product's provenance.
Read the full story at the Scotland Food and Drink website
Pate firm passes taste test with Oman deal
Proof that luxury Scottish products continuing to prosper in overseas markets, a top quality pate maker has signed its first overseas deal to supply expats in the Middle East with a little touch of home.
Findlater’s Fine Foods shipped its first batch of products to Oman in October this year to fill and order with MacKenzies Deli.
The export success for the small Linlithgow-based firm, which employs only 18 people, follows the signing of a significant contract with UK supermarket chain, Waitrose, earlier in the year.
Read the full story in The Scotsman