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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...