Latest news from FSDF
March, 2010
FSDF at the Food and Drink Logistics Show
The Food Storage and Distribution Federation will be exhibiting for the first time on stand AO11 at the Food and Drink Logistics Show being held at the NEC Brimingham from 21st-24th March
March 2010
Food Logistics Leaders Receive Operational Advice to Improve Efficiency
With retail competition and concentration colliding with commodity and currency instability, coupled with increasing environmental pressures, the food industry in 2010 is as challenged as it has ever been. This was the topic of the keynote address given by Professor Alan Braithwaite, chairman of LCP consulting when he opened an informative set of presentations at the recent FSDF Spring Conference.
Presentations by the following were given: (click on each link to download)
Professor Alan Braithwaite - Key Note Address
David Rostance Toyota Material Handling
Mike McGrath HSE
Danny McDougall Star Refrigeration
Bob Faichnie Norbert Dentressangle
Richard Hemming ATMS
David Brackston British Retail Consortium
Julie Gartside Enviros
January 2010
New Work at Height Guidance for Cold Stores
The FSDF and the BFFF are delighted to announce the launch of the new Work at Height Guidance publication for the frozen food and cold storage industry.
November 2009
FSDF and SfL work together to Develop Skills of Food Logistics Sector
The Food Storage and Distribution Federation (FSDF), the sole trade body which represents and supports the interests of the entire food logistics industry, and Skills for Logistics (SfL), the Sector Skills Council for the freight logistics industries, have reached a formal agreement to work together on the development of a series of nationally recognised qualifications for the food logistics industry.
October 29, 2009
Food Logistics leaders receive good news about the frozen food market
With the prediction of the frozen market continuing to grow strongly for the foreseeable future, this key address by Brian Young, Director General of the British Frozen Food Federation, kicked off an informative set of presentations at the recent FSDF Autumn Conference.
July 15, 2009
FSDF invited to join new DfT - Low Carbon Supply Chain Stakeholder Group
The food and drink industry are significant users of energy and creators of emissions, and the temperature controlled food logistics sector more so. With electricity alone representing over 30 % of total operating costs, the members of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation (FSDF) and in it’s previous guise as the Cold Storage and Distribution Federation, have recognised the need for good energy management practice over many years, and more recently the need to control carbon and ozone depleting substances (ODS) emissions.
March, 2009
FSDF Announces New Chief Executive
The FSDF has announced that Christopher Sturman has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation.
March, 2009
FSDF Chief Executive John Hutchings Retires
John Hutchings, Chief Executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation has retired at the end of April 2009.
To mark the occasion, FSDF Board and staff members held a lunch in John's honour at the Mill House Hotel, near