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Food Professionals and Social Networking Survey –

Results 5 April 2011

Background:

Poll was sent to over 200 hand – picked Food Manufacturing Professionals, ranging from Managing Directors of food manufacturing companies, UK grocery retailers, interims on assignment and other likeminded people working in the sector.             Put simply, we wanted to ascertain usage of social networking media amongst food manufacturing professionals in order that we may better meet the needs of our clients and candidates.  We had a higher than usual response, with around 45% completing it.

Click on the link above to see the outcome - I have put my own random thoughts underneath each result, you may like to email me yours

Hutchinson Interim on TOP OF THE WORLD

Here is Kim Milway, one of our interim managers on the summit of Kilimanjaro We were one of the sponsors of Kim for his epic climb in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity & to assist children and charities in Polio affected countries.  We said we'd give him a bit more if he took our logo up there and we have happily paid up. If you want us to consider your charity, you know where we are!

Hutchinson Survey: Recession in the food industry

It’s hard to put a positive slant on the recession, but we have to accept that there are going to be winners and losers. For example, some food companies are going to the wall and the products they used to supply are being picked up by other companies. In the last recession, grocery food purchases actually rose by 0.2%.

We conducted a survey to find out how our clients are feeling and the results make interesting reading. It paints a positive picture of a confident industry that is not just surviving the recession, but performing well and predicting growth for the forthcoming months.

For a complete summary of the survey results, click here