{"id":3964,"date":"2016-07-05T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2016-07-05T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:21:20","slug":"food-manufacturers-never-faced-a-more-urgent-skills-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/food-manufacturers-never-faced-a-more-urgent-skills-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Food manufacturers never faced a more urgent skills challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, FoodManufacture.co.uk revealed some startling comments and statistics surrounding the skills gaps in the Food &amp; Drink industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), manufacturers have never faced\u00a0<em>\u201ca more urgent challenge\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to attract talent.<\/p>\n<p>With 130,000 new employees needed by 2024, the FDF has partnered with a range of organizations to prepare a guide to attracting and retaining the next generation of food engineers, scientists and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the report is the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink, foodservice firm Apetito, Butt Foods, Nestl\u00e9, Mars, Mondel\u0113z International and Premier Foods.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 UK CEO and FDF president, Fiona Kendrick, said: <em>\u201cAs the largest sector of UK manufacturing, food and drink has an enormous contribution to make to boosting the productivity of the economy. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBringing the right people with the right skills in to our businesses is central \u2013 the skills gap facing food and drink is not new, but the need to close it has never been more urgent,\u201d <\/em>said Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: FoodManufacture.co.uk<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, FoodManufacture.co.uk revealed some startling comments and statistics surrounding the skills gaps in the Food &amp; Drink industry. According to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), manufacturers have never faced\u00a0\u201ca more urgent challenge\u201d\u00a0to attract talent. With 130,000 new employees needed by 2024, the FDF has partnered with a range of organisations to prepare a guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-employer-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}