Weetabix cereal production hit by poor harvest
The cereal company Weetabix, based in Northamptonshire, has had to halt production on some products, after last year's poor wheat harvest.
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Food brands sold in £200m deal
Some of the UK's best known food brands are made by a company in our region and today they were bought by an American firm for £200m.
Premier Foods, based in Luton, has sold its jams and spreads division - including brands like Hartley's and Sun-Pat, made at its plant at Histon near Cambridge.
But, as our Business Correspondent Matthew Hudson reports, this isn't your typical story of workers' jobs under threat.
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Cereal company taken over by Chinese firm
Weetabix, the cereal maker based in Northamptonshire has been taken over by a Chinese company.
Shanghai firm Bright Food will take a majority sixty per cent share in Weetabix which will value the giant food manufacturer at £1.2 billion.
Weetabix, which also owns Alpen and Ready Brek, was founded in 1932.
It was family owned until 2004 when it was bought by a Texan private equity firm
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