AAK (UK) Limited, the country’s leading manufacturer and supplier of fats and functional ingredients, has been delivering free, regular plant health checks for the bakery sector for the past few
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Royal FrieslandCampina has reported a 3.5% increase in revenue to Eur5.713 billion for the first half of 2014. However, operating profit fell by Eur102 million (37.1%) to Eur173 million with
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Beam Suntory, one of the world’s leading spirits companies, has appointed Mauricio Restrepo as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mauricio Restrepo will join Beam Suntory from SABMiller, where he currently
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Pernod Ricard has reported a 7% decline in full year sales to €7.945 billion, due to adverse foreign exchange factors and a 23% drop in sales in the Chinese market,
Brussels (Belgium), September 2014 – HiE, Amsterdam, 2nd – 4th December, booth K20 – Kaneka Pharma Europe highlights functional ingredients to support health for body and mind. The focus will
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Grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks ending 17 August 2014, show Aldi and Lidl have maintained their record shares of 4.8% and 3.6% respectively, mainly thanks
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US-based Burger King has acquired Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and doughnuts chain, for C$12.5 billion (US$11.4 billion) to create the world’s third largest quick service restaurant group. The merged
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Tetra Pak, the world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, has launched Tetra Alsafe for ESL production, an automated tank with constant temperature control that preserves product quality between
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Parmalat is acquiring the UHT milk and cheese manufacturing facilities along with certain brands of Brazilian dairy business Lácteos do Brasil for R$250 million (Eur83 million). The operations being acquired
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According to the latest Innova Market Insights Global New Products Report, almonds outpaced overall food and nut introductions around the world in 2013, climbing 35 percent, compared to a 10
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A new survey by Canadean finds that consumers aged 55 and older associate ‘natural’ products with a healthy, yet tasty, lifestyle and diet. The survey of 2,000 UK consumers finds
Norwegian energy firms Statoil and Statkraft have awarded a contract worth approximately £500m to Siemens to deliver turbines for the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the east of England,
Lonza is one of the world’s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries. For the nutrition market, Lonza supplies high quality health ingredients supported by scientific research,
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Cargill and Copersucar, the largest Brazilian sugar and ethanol trader, have successfully completed all required regulatory clearances to form Alvean, their new 50/50 sugar trading joint venture. Operating as an
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The long-awaited return of Irish whiskey production to the town of Tullamore has moved a significant step closer with the installation of the custom-made Tullamore Distillery Spirit Safe. The symbolic
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An impressive line-up of key note speakers has been assembled for the ‘Innovation for Sustainable Growth’ Conference and Exhibition to be held on Wednesday, September 10th at the Aviva Stadium
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Nestlé has announced a major pledge to improve the welfare of the farm animals in its supply chain, following the signature of a partnership agreement with NGO World Animal Protection.
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Diageo has broken ground on its new Shelby County, Kentucky distillery, which will officially be called ‘The Bulleit Distilling Co’ after the distillery’s flagship brand. In May, Diageo announced its
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New research from Mintel reveals that a third (33%) of British consumers ordered a takeaway once a week or more in the past three months and 31% ate in a
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Bannisters’ Farm, the UK’s leading supplier of frozen baked potato products to the foodservice sector, has introduced a new line
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Kellogg Company has issued its fifth annual Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) report, ‘Features’, which details the company’s efforts toward strengthening
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Carlsberg Group expects the continuing challenging economic conditions in some countries in Eastern Europe and destocking among distributors in Russia,
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Vion Food is to make a multi-million euro investment in its Bavarian processing plants as part of a new strategy
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Irish genetics company IndentiGEN has announced details of a new DNA testing technology which will offer it major advantages in
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Pearlfisher New York has created the brand strategy, identity, packaging and visual language for new confectionery brand, Legit Organics. In a category
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Glanbia, the global nutritional solutions and cheese group which is based in Ireland, has increased EBITA by 6% to €129.5
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Nestlé Purina, one of the world’s leading pet care producers, has developed a nutritional supplement consisting of fish oil and
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Following years of research and development, Crisp Sensation Holding, owner of a worldwide patented food coating system, has announced that
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In the context of Russian restrictions on imports of EU agricultural products, the European Commission is moving to introduce support
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Tomas Pietrangeli (pictured) has been named the new head of Arla Denmark. Coming from a job as Managing Director at
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Nescafé Milano 2.0 has been awarded the coveted Red Dot Design Award, highlighting the premium coffee machine’s blending of form
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Pearlfisher Futures, Pearlfisher’s future insight and innovation team, has launched the Taste Mode Report – a highly inspirational study of
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Far from being a necessary evil, experience shows that the proactive involvement of Maintenance within a Lean Manufacturing programme accelerates
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The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is lobbying the UK Government over failure to close planning loopholes – as pub
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The board of directors of Chiquita Brands International has unanimously decided that the unsolicited offer from the Cutrale Group and
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Building on the company’s heritage, Kellogg Company has announced new social and environmental commitments that will enrich the lives of consumers
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Following a successful first year of Premier League sponsorship, Carlsberg has launched ‘Take Your Seats’, a film that celebrates iconic
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Speciality & Fine Food Fair is the leading UK trade event that exclusively targets food and drink buyers from the
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The Coca-Cola Company is acquiring a 16.7% stake in international energy drinks producer Monster Beverage Corporation for $2.15 billion as
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‘Innovation for Sustainable Growth’ is the theme of Food & Drink Business Europe’s inaugural Conference and Exhibition for the Irish
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Joe’s Tea Co, the London-based organic tea company, has been recognised for yet more outstanding tea at this year’s Great
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Nestlé is helping hundreds of children whom it has found to be working on the Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms where
Mexico-based glass manufacturer Vitro has received a new contract from its client Constellation Brands to produce 7.3 billion beer bottles.
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The board of directors of Danish Crown has approved the plan to move production from international meat group’s Faaborg site
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Work has now finished at the most northerly gin distillery on mainland Britain with the final piece of equipment –
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After over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals, CAMRA, the Campaign for
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AAK (UK), the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of fats and functional ingredients, is helping food manufacturers and retailers to
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2 days ago UK based engineering firm Olympus Automation (OAL) were approached by the president of Azersun, the leading food
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International alcoholic beverages group Constellation Brands is acquiring the Casa Noble tequila brand. The transaction includes the Casa Noble trademark
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The ten Member States that declared having exceeded their fishing quotas in 2013 will face reduced fishing quotas for those
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Production has begun at a new whey and lactose production facility that is a joint venture between Denmark’s Arla Foods
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Viridor, one of the UK’s leading recycling, renewable energy and waste management companies, has installed a Babcock Wanson HEB 1050
COVERIS Rigid (Mansfield) UK has designed a new, completely recyclable, thin wall in-mould labelled packaging for dairy firm First Milk’s